*Quotation Quotient
(Published July 28, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
A. Winston Churchill
B. Kevin Bacon
C. Joel Osteen
2. “I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.”
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Edison
C. Will Rogers
3. “Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.”
A. John Kenneth Galbraith
B. Will McAvoy
C. Rand Paul
4. “The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.”
A. Charles Lindbergh
B. Benny Hill
C. Janet Napolitano
5. “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
A. Rodney Dangerfield
B. Laura McKinnon
C. Buddha
6. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. George Jefferson
C. Jefferson Airplane
7. “Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.”
A. Karl Rove
B. Rudy Giuliani
C. Marshall McLuhan
8. “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
A. George Zimmerman
B. Lou Gehrig
C. Phil Mickelson
9. “Criticizing a political satirist for being unfair is like criticizing a nose guard for being physical.”
A. Garry Trudeau
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Vince Lombardi
10. “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for.”
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Oscar Grant
C. Oscar de la Renta
Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 4-B , 5-C , 6-A , 7-C , 8-B , 9-A , 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:
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” — Chuck Palahniuk
(Palahniuk, b. 1962, is an American novelist and author of “The Fight Club.”)
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