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April 3, 2016 · 3:39 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #469

Published April 3, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

 

1. “To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

 

A. Billy Barty

B. Barbara Boxer

C. Bernard Baruch

 

2. “Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”

 

A. Ann Morrow Lindbergh

B. Nikita Khrushchev

C. Charlie Chaplin

 

3. “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

 

A. Colin Kaepernick

B. Helen Keller

C. Joseph McCarthy

 

4. “Canada is a country without a cuisine.  When’s the last time you went out for Canadian?”

 

A. Mickey Mantle

B. Marilyn Monroe

C. Mike Myers

 

5. “April is the cruelest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ Memory and desire, stirring/ Dull roots with spring rain.”

 

A. T.S. Eliot

B. Clint Eastwood

C. Edgar Allan Poe

 

6. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”

 

A. Charles Koch

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Stephen Curry

 

7. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

 

A. Roald Dahl

B. John McCain

C. James Dean

 

8. “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

 

A. Ho Chi Minh

B. Clarence Thomas

C. Kurt Vonnegut

 

9. “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

 

A. Pelé

B. Voltaire

C. Prince

 

10. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

 

A. Ralph Nader

B. Yogi Berra

C. Carl Jung

 

 

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

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

–Miles Kington, 1941-2008, was a British writer, humorist, and musician.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 29, 2015 · 9:42 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #452

Published November 29, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “The more one gives, the more one has to give– like milk in the breast.”

 

A. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

B. Anne Frank

C. Anne Boleyn

 

2. “I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

 

A. Buster Keaton

B. Arnold Palmer

C. G. K. Chesterton

 

3. “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

 

A. John Steinbeck

B. Dilbert

C. Malcolm X

 

4. “Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.”

 

A. Jim Thorpe

B. Bertrand Russell

C. Nicholas Copernicus

 

5. “Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”

 

A. Bill Clinton

B. Albert Camus

C. Dr. Ben Carson

 

6. “My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.”

 

A. Leon Trotsky

B. Orville Wright

C. Rodney Dangerfield

 

7. “Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

 

A. Bill Gates

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Elvis Presley

 

8. “Our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, and no one ever comes to warm himself at it; the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.”

 

A. Vincent van Gogh

B. Bernie Sanders

C. Ronda Rousey

 

9. “Forcing the world to adjust to oneself has always seemed to me an honorable life work…That one fails in the end is irrelevant.”

 

A. Rodney King

B. Gore Vidal

C. Augusto Pinochet

 

10. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”

 

A. Donald Trump

B. Goldie Hawn

C. Mark Twain

 

 

 

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

“Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books and told by college professors.”

– Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, was an American writer, publisher and philosopher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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September 7, 2015 · 2:06 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #440

Published September 8, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.”

 

A. Jar Jar Binks

B. JoJo Starbuck

C. Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

2. “What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”

 

A. Anaïs Nin

B. Scott Walker

C. Thomas Jefferson

 

3. “I, like every soldier of America, will die for freedom of the press, even for the freedom of newspapers that call me everything that is a good deal less than being a gentleman.”

 

A. Chris Kyle

B. Cyndi Lauper

C. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

4. “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”

 

A. Anne Hathaway

B. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

C. Ann Coulter

 

5. “You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.”

 

A. Gertrude Stein

B. L. Frank Baum

C. Anthony Weiner

 

6. “I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.”

 

A. Justin Timberlake

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Oscar Hammerstein

 

7. “The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.”

 

A. Herman Cain

B. Herman Melville

C. Herman Munster

 

8. “There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

 

A. Alan King

B. Prince William

C. Helen Keller

 

9. “Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”

 

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Margaret Mitchell

C. Engelbert Humperdinck

 

10. “If I can stop one heart from breaking,/ I shall not live in vain;/ If I can ease one life the aching,/ Or cool one pain,/ Or help one fainting robin/ Unto his nest again,/ I shall not live in vain.”

 

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Judy Blume

C. Jackie Gleason

 

 

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

“When a fellow says, ‘It hain’t the money, but th’ principle o’ the thing,’ it’s th’ money.”

–Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, was a popular Indiana humorist and journalist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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September 14, 2014 · 11:59 am

What’s Your QQ*? #390

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published September 14, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”

 

A. Matt Lauer

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Barack Obama

 

2. “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

 

A. Albert Einstein

B. Mary Tyler Moore

C. Martin Luther King

 

3. “Do you know what I love most about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt. And that’s just in the hot dogs.”

 

A. Yogi Berra

B. Oscar Mayer

C. David Letterman

 

4. “The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.”

 

A. John F. Kennedy

B. George W. Bush

C. Rachel Maddow

 

5. “Before publishers’ blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”

 

A. John Steinbeck

B. Mark Twain

C. Laurence J. Peter

 

6. “Life is the sum of all your choices.”

 

A. Albert Camus

B. Yoda

C. Meryl Streep

 

7. “I told my psychiatrist I got suicidal tendencies. He said from now on I have to pay in advance.”

 

A. Judge Judy

B. Rodney Dangerfield

C. Billy Graham

 

8. “What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!”

 

A. Anne Boleyn

B. Anne of Green Gables

C. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

9. “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

 

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Victor Hugo

C. Archie Bunker

 

10. “I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”

 

A. Nancy Pelosi

B. Joan Rivers

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

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

 “I passed a mirror recently and saw my mother there./ She seemed surprised to see me. I’d caught her unaware./ But there’s no mistake about it. The dewlaps and graying hair/ Are so familiar to me I’d know them anywhere.” — Genevieve Smith Whitford

 (Whitford, 1915-2011, was a poet and the mother of actor Bradley Whitford.)

 

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