Published July 19, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)
1. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”
A. Thomas A. Edison
B. Jon Bon Jovi
C. Sir Francis Drake
2. “I hate doing laundry. I don’t separate the colors from the whites. I put them together and let them learn from their cultural differences.”
A. Rosalynn Carter
B. Bing Crosby
C. Rita Rudner
3. “Mrs. Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”
A. Virginia Woolf
B. Michael J. Fox
C. Larry Bird
4. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
A. Jack Nicholson
B. Jack Kerouac
C. Jack Nicklaus
5. “If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
A. Steven Spielberg
B. Carl Jung
C. Ernest Borgnine
6. “Cowardice asks the question–is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question–is it politic? Vanity asks the question–is it popular? Conscience asks the question–is it right?”
A. Jonas Salk
B. Martin Luther King, Jr.
C. George Costanza
7. “I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.”
A. W.C. Fields
B. W. B. Yeats
C. J. K. Rowling
8. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
A. John Denver
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Plato
9. “I don’t know a lot about politics, but I can recognize a good party man when I see one.”
A. Mae West
B. Oprah Winfrey
C. Kim Kardashian
10. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
A. Herman Melville
B. Ben Franklin
C. Ronn Owens
Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 4-B , 5-B , 6-B , 7-A , 8-C , 9-A , 10-B
Scoring: 10–QQQQ = Quote-Master
(number correct) 8-9–QQQ = Scholar
6-7–QQ = Literate
4-5–Q = Semi-Literate
0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce
BONUS QUOTE:
“Punctuality is something that if you have it, there’s often no one around to share it with you.“
–Hylda Baker, 1905-1986, was a British comedienne and actress.
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