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What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #444
Published October 4, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)
1. “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Jerry Brown
C. Michael Phelps
2. “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
A. Miley Cyrus
B. J.K. Rowling
C. J. Edgar Hoover
3. “A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
A. Mark Twain
B. Jacques Cousteau
C. Raúl Castro
4. “I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”
A. Rick Santorum
B. Trevor Noah
C. Neil deGrasse Tyson
5. “An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.”
A. Robert Downey Jr.
B. Robert Oppenheimer
C. Robert Pattinson
6. “You have to be odd to be number one.”
A. Dr. Seuss
B. Stephen Hawking
C. Donald Trump
7. “No one shall give or receive a present, either during a candidacy or during or after a term of office.”
A. John Boehner
B. Conan O’Brien
C. Cicero
8. “The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever galling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
A. Ogden Nash
B. John Muir
C. Janet Reno
9. “Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.”
A. Wernher von Braun
B. Mario Andretti
C. Yoko Ono
10. “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
A. George Zimmerman
B. George Washington
C. George Bernard Shaw
Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-A , 4-C , 5-B , 6-A , 7-C , 8-B , 9-A, 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:
“Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.”
–Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1899-1977, a reform-minded American educator, served as president and chancellor of the University of Chicago.
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What’s Your QQ*? #411
*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Interactive version published February 8, 2015 at Montereyherald.com.)
1. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
A. LaVar Burton
B. Maya Angelou
C. Lindsey Graham
2. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
A. “Superman”
B. “Peter Pan”
C. “E.T.”
3. “The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can’t be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.”
A. Christopher Hitchens
B. Ted Kennedy
C. Nikola Tesla
4. “Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
A. Marshawn Lynch
B. Billy Graham
C. Hunter S. Thompson
5. “We are working together to establish a process that honors a terminally ill patient’s right to make informed decisions about dying, including an individual’s option to reduce suffering by taking aid-in-dying medication.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Sen. Bill Monning
C. Arnold Swarzenegger
6. “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
A. Pete Rose
B. Henry Kissinger
C. Mark Twain
7. “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Gerald Ford
C. Pete Carroll
8. “When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
A. Grandma Moses
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
9. “In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.”
A. Neil deGrasse Tyson
B. Clint Eastwood
C. Jim Vanderzwaan
10. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
A. Dr. Spock
B. Dr. Seuss
C. Dr. Oz
Answers: 1-B, 2-B , 3-A , 4-C , 5-B , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 9-A , 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:
“You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.” – Emery Allen
(Allen wrote a book of poetry titled “Become.”)
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