*Quotation Quotient
(Published May 5, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “The Roman government gave them bread and circuses. Today we give them bread and elections.”
A. Will Durant
B. Mitt Romney
C. George Gallup
2. “In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it’s a great relief.”
A. Michelle Duggar
B. John Barrymore
C. Robinson Crusoe
3. “And in the streets the children screamed/ The lovers cried and the poets dreamed/ But not a word was spoken/ The church bells all were broken/ And the three men I admire most/ The Father Son and Holy Ghost/ They caught the last train for the coast/ The day the music died.”
A. Bob Dylan
B. Don McLean
C. Buddy Holly
4. “Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.”
A. Red Auerbach
B. Red Barber
C. Red Skelton
5. “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
A. Susan B. Anthony
B. Mary J. Blige
C. Carl Sandburg
6. “There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.”
A. Anaïs Nin
B. Mitch McConnell
C. Karl Marx
7. “It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”
A. Margaret Mitchell
B. Bertrand Russell
C. Mahatma Gandhi
8. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Abbie Hoffman
C. Ted Nugent
9. “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
A. Yogi Berra
B. Mark Twain
C. Vladimir Nabokov
10. “No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.”
A. Ben Jealous
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. David Letterman
Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-B , 4-C , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 8-A , 9-C , 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:
“In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.” – Isaac Rosenfeld
(Rosenfeld, 1918-1956, was a Jewish-American writer and member of the New York literary elite.)
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