May 1, 2016 · 4:28 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #473

Published May 1, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)

 

1. “People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”

 

A. Russell Baker

B. Stephen Hawking

C. George Custer

 

2. “Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

 

A. Ron Howard

B. Calvin Coolidge

C. George Bernard Shaw

 

3. “Parents used to have children in order to assist on the farm or ranch; today they have them for tech support.”

 

A. Confucius

B. Arlen Grossman

C. Paul Ryan

 

4. “What is hell?/ Hell is oneself,/ Hell is alone, the other figures in it/ Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from/ And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”

 

A. Julie Andrews

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Will Rogers

 

5. “Heeeere’s Johnny!”

 

A. Ed McMahon

B. Jack Nicholson

C. John F. Kennedy

 

6. “Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

 

A. Henry Aaron

B. Henry Kissinger

C. Henry David Thoreau

 

7. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

 

A. Carly Fiorina

B. William Shakespeare

C. Barry Manilow

 

8. “You cannot be serious!”

 

A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Pope Francis

C. John McEnroe

 

9. “The issue isn’t just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.”

 

A. Jim Hightower

B. Harriet Tubman

C. Robert Frost

 

10. “Most persons have died before they expire, — died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.”

 

A. Tom Selleck

B. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

C. Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-B , 4-B , 5-A and/or B , 6-C , 7-B , 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:

“We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.”

–Ramsay MacDonald, 1866-1937, was Britain’s first Labour Party Prime Minister.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 24, 2016 · 2:35 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #472

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

 

1. “Movies are real! Music is real! It affects people, it’s real. The other night I went to a club and I watched a DJ control an entire room. Even politicians can’t do that.”

 

A. Prince

B. Oprah

C. Cher

 

2. “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

 

A. Hillary Clinton

B. Charles Manson

C. E.B. White

 

3. “Judges commonly are elderly men, and are more likely to hate at sight any analysis to which they are not accustomed, and which disturbs repose of mind, than to fall in love with novelties.”

 

A. Clarence Thomas

B. Oliver Wendell Holmes

C. Sally Field

 

4. “Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”

 

A. Amy Schumer

B. Miguel de Cervantes

C. Barry Manilow

 

5. “It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”

 

A. James Franco

B. James Bond

C. James Thurber

 

6. “It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.”

 

A. William Hung

B. Eddie Cantor

C. Ferdinand Magellan

 

7. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

 

A. Marcus Aurelius

B. Alex Rodriguez

C. George Carlin

 

8. “For though I know he loves me,/  To-night my heart is sad;/ His kiss was not so wonderful/ As all the dreams I had.”

 

A. Madonna

B. Bob Newhart

C. Sara Teasdale

 

9. “Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”

 

A. Bertrand Russell

B. Donald Trump

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

10. “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.’”

 

A. Ted Striker

B. Douglas Adams

C. Ulysses S. Grant

 

 

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

“Who has seen the wind?/ Neither you nor I:/ But when the trees bow down their heads,/ The wind is passing by.”

–Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894, was an English poet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 17, 2016 · 12:17 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #471

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

 

1. “He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

 

A. Carmen Miranda

B. Voltaire

C. Larry King

 

2. “How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?”

 

A. Charles de Gaulle

B. Christina Applegate

C. David Cameron

 

3. “I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.”

 

A. Alexander Woollcott

B. Karl Marx

C. Lucille Ball

 

4. “The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil.”

 

A. C. Everett Koop

B. L. Frank Baum

C. W. Somerset Maugham

 

5. “Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.”

 

A. Buzz Aldrin

B. Reince Priebus

C. Sophocles

 

6. “If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.”

 

A. Pope Francis

B. Kurt Vonnegut

C. Bob Hope

 

7. “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

 

A. Michael Jackson

B. Lance Ito

C. Johnnie Cochran

 

8. “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

 

A. Frederick Douglass

B. Spartacus

C. Gene Autry

 

9. “I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.”

 

A. Hermann Goering

B. Hermann Hesse

C. Herman Munster

 

10. “Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.”

 

A. George Noory

B. J. Edgar Hoover

C. Will Rogers

 

 

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

“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.”

–Bill McGlashen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 10, 2016 · 10:50 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #470

Published April 10, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

 

1. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

 

A. Lord Acton

B. Rodney Dangerfield

C. Richard Nixon

 

2. “Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.”    

 

A. Jack Nicklaus

B. Adlai Stevenson

C. Ralph Nader

 

3. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

 

A. Dick Tracy

B. Sherlock Holmes

C. Diane Keaton

 

4. “I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

 

A. Rose Kennedy

B. Jack Paar

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

 

5. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

A. George Orwell

B. George Harrison

C. George Washington

 

6. “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

 

A. John Wayne

B. Ludwig van Beethoven

C. Pablo Picasso

 

7. “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

 

A. Captain Kangaroo

B.  Oscar Wilde

C. Mother Teresa

 

8. “Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”

 

A. Mark Twain

B. Marilyn Manson

C. Garfield

 

9. “Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.”

 

A. Strom Thurmond

B. Pearl S. Buck

C. Chris Rock

 

10. “An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

 

A. Andy Devine

B. Andy Gibb

C. Andy Warhol

 

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-B , 4-C , 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:

“Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.”

–Linda Dillow is an American author of religious books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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