*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Published August 17, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)
1. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
A. Galileo Galilei
B. Arthur C. Clarke
C. Michael Bloomberg
2. “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
A. Aldous Huxley
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Brian Williams
3. “You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
A. Elizabeth Taylor
B. Jennifer Lawrence
C. Lauren Bacall
4. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
A. George Blanda
B. Pelé
C. Bruce Lee
5. “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
A. Jiddu Krisnamurti
B. Nouri al-Maliki
C. Seth Myers
6. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
A. Spiro Agnew
B. Kahlil Gibran
C. Will Rogers
7. “More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.”
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. Napoleon Bonaparte
C. Lucille Ball
8. “There is one fault that I must find with the twentieth century,/ And I’ll put it in a couple of words: Too adventury./ What I’d like would be some nice dull monotony/ If anyone’s gotony.”
A. Edna St. Vincent Millay
B. Ogden Nash
C. Alfred Hitchcock
9. “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
A. Pat Sajak
B. Henry Kissinger
C. Bertrand Russell
10. “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
A. Ed Sullivan
B. Robin Williams
C. Bob Hope
Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-C , 4-C , 5-A , 6-B , 7-A , 8-B , 9-C , 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:
“Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.” ― François La Rochefoucauld
(La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, was a French writer known for his maxims and memoirs.)
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