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May 7, 2015 · 10:00 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #424

Published May 8-10, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)
 

 SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY EDITION

1. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

 

A. Oprah Winfrey

B. Louis Pasteur

C. Kim Kardashian

 

2. “Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”

 

A. Noah Webster

B. Arnold Schwarzenegger

C. Ambrose Bierce

 

3. “It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”

 

A. Bob Barker

B. Phyllis Diller

C. Pope Benedict XVI

 

4. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

 

A. Satchel Paige

B. Aristotle

C. Joseph Stalin

 

5. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

 

A. Oscar Mayer

B. Oscar Pistorius

C. Oscar Wilde

 

6. “There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness… The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.”

 

A. Andrew Jackson

B. Ralph Nader

C. Mao Tse-Tung

 

7. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

 

A. Rocky Marciano

B. Charles Darwin

C. Milton Berle

 

8. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

 

A. Al Capone

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. J. D. Salinger

 

9. “A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

 

A. Robert Frost

B. Robert Reich

C. Robert De Niro

 

10. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”

 

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Taylor Swift

C. James Joyce

 

 

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

 “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

 ― Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879-1958, was an American educational reformer, social activist, and author.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 1, 2015 · 7:53 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #423

Published May 3, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


1. “People who love to eat are always the best people.”

 

A. Andrew Jackson

B. Melissa McCarthy

C. Julia Child

 

2. “I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”

 

A. E.M. Forster

B. Ricardo Montalbán

C. Johan Gutenberg

 

3. “If you should have a boy, do not christian him John…’tis a bad name and goes against a man. If my name had been Edmund I should have been more fortunate.”

 

A. John Keats

B. John McCain

C. John Oliver

 

4. “In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.”

 

A. Jack Nicholson

B. Maya Angelou

C. J. K. Rowling

 

5. “Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”

 

A. Helen Keller

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Jon Stewart

 

6. “I got out this diary and read, as one always does read one’s own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.”

 

A. Carol Burnett

B. Chris Kyle

C. Virginia Woolf

 

7. “God’s looking down making little Bruce. He’s looking down and he says, ‘Okay, what are we going to do with this one?’ … God looks down, chuckles a little bit and says, ‘Lets give him a soul of a female!”‘

 

A. Bruce Willis

B. Bruce Jenner

C. Bruce Springsteen

 

8. “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.”

 

A. Herbert Hoover

B. Christina Aguilera

C. George W. Bush

 

9. “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”

 

A. D. H. Lawrence

B. B. B. King

C. H. G. Wells

 

10. “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

 

A. Norman Rockwell

B. Georgia O’Keeffe

C. Jerry Lee Lewis

 

 

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

 “My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice, no book – it is a plaything.”

 ―Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English poet and satiric novelist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 25, 2015 · 3:03 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #422

Published April 24, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


1. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”

 

A. Thomas A. Edison

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Thomas Friedman

 

2. “Caution is the eldest child of wisdom”

 

A. Groucho Marx

B. Clarence Thomas

C. Victor Hugo

 

3. “You can fool too many people too much of the time.”

 

A. James Thurber

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Brian Williams

 

4. “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

 

A. John Travolta

B. John Muir

C. John Adams

 

5. “It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.”

 

A. William Shakespeare

B. Al Roker

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

6. “I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

 

A. Chris Christie

B. William Penn

C. Ella Fitzgerald

 

7. “If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

 

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Stevie Wonder

C. Aaron Copland

 

8. “And freedom, oh freedom, well, that’s just some people talkin’/  

Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

 

A. The Yardbirds

B. The Byrds

C. The Eagles

 

9. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

 

A. Elton John

B. Robert Frost

C. Alexander Haig

 

10.  “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

 

A. Don Rickles

B. Sigmund Freud

C. John Steinbeck

 

 

 

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

 “If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest.”

 ―Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, was an American cartoonist, humorist and journalist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 20, 2015 · 3:34 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #421

(Published April 18, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version)


 

1. “A man said to the universe:/  ‘Sir, I exist!’/ ‘However,’ replied the universe,/  ‘The fact has not created in me/  A sense of obligation.’”

 

A. Stephen Colbert

B. Stephen King

C. Stephen Crane

 

2. “Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

 

A. Wilford Brimley

B. G.K. Chesterton

C. Leonard Bernstein

 

3. “The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”

 

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Humphrey Bogart

C. O. J. Simpson

 

4. “It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while.”

 

A. Luther Burbank

B. Janet Reno

C. John Denver

 

5. “In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove;/ In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”

 

A. Alfred Hitchcock

B. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

C. Alfred E. Neuman

 

6. “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ”

 

A. Millard Fillmore

B. Dennis Rodman

C. Bret Harte

 

7. “Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s problems.”

 

A. Marshall McLuhan

B. John Boehner

C. Paul McCartney

 

8. “Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”

 

A. Jesse Ventura

B. Jane Austen

C. Lisa Kudrow

 

9. “It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

 

A. Phil Donahue

B. Woody Allen

C. Vladimir Putin

 

10. “We are at an epochal, transitional moment in the history of life on Earth. There is no other time as risky, but no other time as promising for the future of life on our planet.”

 

A. Carl Sagan

B. James T. Kirk

C. Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

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

 

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:

 “Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.” 

~St. Jerome, 347-420, was the foremost biblical scholar of the ancient Catholic Church.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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