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What’s Your Quotation Quotient?#460

Published January 31, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

 

A. Bob Hope

B. Elizabeth Warren

C. J. P. Morgan

 

2.  “Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”

 

A. Peyton Manning

B. Norman Rockwell

C. Lillian Hellman

 

3. “Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

 

A. G. K. Chesterton

B. Chris Christie

C. Carol Burnett

 

4. “I looked around at the little fishes present and said, ‘I’m the Kingfish.'”

 

A. Martin Luther King

B. Huey Long

C. Donald Trump

 

5. “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

 

A. Holden Caulfield

B. David Copperfield

C. Huckleberry Finn

 

6. “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.”

 

A. Alfred Hitchcock

B. Charlie Chaplin

C. Jerry Seinfeld

 

7. “One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns …”

 

A. Mario Andretti

B. Mario Cuomo

C. Mario Puzo

 

8. “A little integrity is better than any career.”

 

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Bernie Madoff

C. Confucius

 

9. “Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.”

 

A. Georgia O’Keeffe

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Dakota Fanning

 

10. “Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”

 

A. Art Carney

B. Dwight Eisenhower

C. Tom Lehrer

 

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 4-B , 5-A , 6-B , 7-C , 8-A , 9-B , 10-C

 

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:

“My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.”

–C. E. M. Joad, 1891-1953, was a British philosopher, educator, and radio personality.

 

 

 

 

 

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What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #459

Published January 24, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “By doing good we become good; and I know no surer way to this end.”

 

A. H. G. Wells

B. Roger Ebert

C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

2. “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

 

A. Morley Safer

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. John McCain

 

3. “American men do not read novels because they feel guilty when they read books which do not have facts in them.”

 

A. Vidal Sassoon

B. Gore Vidal

C. Al Gore

 

4. “I pledge allegiance, to the Flag of the Divided States of America. And to the PACs, for which it stands, one Nation, at odds, divisible, with Liberty and Justice for some.”

 

A. Neil deGrasse Tyson

B. Ben Franklin

C. Donald Trump

 

5. “We’re overpaying him, but he’s worth it.”

 

A. Samuel Goldwyn

B. Joe Biden

C. Jean-Paul Sartre

 

6. “Husbands think we should know where everything is – like the uterus is a tracking device. He asks me, ‘Roseanne, do we have any Chee-tos left?’ Like he can’t go over to that sofa cushion and lift it up himself.”

 

A. Roseanne Roseannadanna

B. Marilyn Monroe

C. Roseanne Barr

 

7. “An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.”

 

A. Bernie Sanders

B. Bernard Baruch

C. Jennifer Lawrence

 

8. “Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.”

 

A. Norman Cousins

B. Norman Bates

C. Norman Lear

 

9. “The longest journey/Is the journey inwards./ Of him who has chosen his destiny,/ Who has started upon his quest/ For the source of his being.”

 

A. Archie Bunker

B. Dag Hammarskjöld

C. Thomas Jefferson

 

10. “If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head.”

 

A. Sarah Palin

B. Stephen Hawking

C. Samuel Johnson

 

 

Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 3-B , 4-A , 5-A , 6-C , 7-B , 8-A , 9-B , 10-C

 

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:

“True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.”

–François de La Rochefoucauld. 1613-1680, was a French author of maxims and memoirs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MISATTRIBUTED WELL-KNOWN QUOTATIONS

My presentation at SkeptiCamp Monterey, January 2, hosted by the Monterey County Skeptics and the Humanists Association of the Monterey Bay Area.

SkeptiCamp Monterey 2016

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What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #458

Published January 17, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

 

A. Will Smith

B. Carl Jung

C. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

2. “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

 

A. Darth Vader

B. Mae West

C. Walter White

 

3. “We are stardust/ We are golden/ And we’ve got to get ourselves/

Back to the garden.”

 

A. Joni Mitchell

B. Joan Baez

C. Hoagy Carmichael

 

4. “He (Billy Conn) can run, but he can’t hide.”

 

A. Joe Biden

B. Joe Louis

C. Joe Namath

 

5. “The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.”

 

A. Art Linkletter

B. Terry Gross

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

6. “When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”

 

A. Bob Dole

B. Al Jolson

C. Eugene V. Debs

 

7. “You see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream things as they never were and ask, ‘Why not?'”

 

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Osama bin Laden

C. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

8. “For when the One Great Scorer comes/ To mark against your name,/ He writes – not that you won or lost –/ But how you played the Game.”

 

A. Grantland Rice

B. John Wooden

C. William “Refrigerator” Perry

 

9. “Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.”

 

A. Hillary Clinton

B. Hugh Hefner

C. Fran Lebowitz

 

10. “I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, “F— that. I want to be a superhuman.”

 

A. David Letterman

B. David Bowie

C. David Koch

 

 

Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 3-A , 4-B , 5-A , 6-C , 7-A , 8-A , 9-C , 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:

“As I grow older and older,/ And totter toward the tomb,/ I find that I care less and less,/ Who goes to bed with whom.”

―Dorothy L. Sayers, 1893-1957, an English mystery writer, created the Lord Peter Wimsey stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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