*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Interactive version published March 1, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle.)
1. “Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!”
A. Ralph Nader
B. Ralph Kramden
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’”
A. C.S. Lewis
B. J.K. Rowling
C. R.J. Reynolds
3. “There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.”
A. Henry VIII
B. Clint Eastwood
C. Lady Gaga
4. “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
A. Paul Simon
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Charles Dickens
5. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
A. Mickey Mantle
B. John Kerry
C. Oscar Wilde
6. “War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Chris Kyle
C. Genghis Khan
7. “Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich – simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
A. Henry Miller
B. Dennis Miller
C. Stephanie Miller
8. “Mass demand has been created almost entirely through
the development of advertising.”
A. Calvin Coolidge
B. Don Draper
C. Marco Polo
9. “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
A. Charles Manson
B. Voltaire
C. Alexander Hamilton
10. “There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.”
A. Stephen Hawking
B. Benedict Cumberbatch
C. Albert Einstein
Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-B , 4-B , 5-C , 6-A , 7-A , 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:
“As novices, we think we’re entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.”- Rose Wilder Lane
(Lane, 1886-1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was a writer and libertarian theorist.)
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