*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Published July 13, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)
1. “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”
A. Redd Foxx
B. Jane Fonda
C. George Will
2. “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
A. Pope John Paul II
B. Raymond Chandler
C. A. A. Milne
3. “The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Edward R. Murrow
4. “The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.”
A. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
B. Lindsey Graham
C. Jim Carrey
5. “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
A. Leonardo da Vinci
B. Jessica Simpson
C. Chiang Kai-shek
6. “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.”
A. Confucius
B. Erle Stanley Gardner
C. Rudyard Kipling
7. “Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.”
A. Harry Potter
B. Beatrix Potter
C. Henry F. Potter
8. “The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.”
A. H. L. Mencken
B. Warren G. Harding
C. Buddy Ebsen
9. “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
A. Ulysses S. Grant
B. Prince Philip
C. Louis Pasteur
10. “Humanity i love you because/ when you’re hard up you pawn your/
intelligence to buy a drink.”
A. Dean Martin
B. Omar Khayyam
C. E.E. Cummings
Answers: 1-A, 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:
“Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?” – Elias Canetti
(Canetti, 1905-1994, a Bulgarian-born writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.)
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