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January 31, 2016 · 2:33 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient?#460

Published January 31, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

1. “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

A. Bob Hope

B. Elizabeth Warren

C. J. P. Morgan

2. “Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”

A. Peyton Manning

B. Norman Rockwell

C. Lillian Hellman

3. “Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

A. G. K. Chesterton

B. Chris Christie

C. Carol Burnett

4. “I looked around at the little fishes present and said, ‘I’m the Kingfish.'”

A. Martin Luther King

B. Huey Long

C. Donald Trump

5. “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

A. Holden Caulfield

B. David Copperfield

C. Huckleberry Finn

6. “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.”

A. Alfred Hitchcock

B. Charlie Chaplin

C. Jerry Seinfeld

7. “One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns …”

A. Mario Andretti

B. Mario Cuomo

C. Mario Puzo

8. “A little integrity is better than any career.”

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Bernie Madoff

C. Confucius

9. “Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.”

A. Georgia O’Keeffe

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Dakota Fanning

10. “Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”

A. Art Carney

B. Dwight Eisenhower

C. Tom Lehrer

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 4-B , 5-A , 6-B , 7-C , 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:

“My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.”

–C. E. M. Joad, 1891-1953, was a British philosopher, educator, and radio personality.

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #452

Published November 29, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

1. “The more one gives, the more one has to give– like milk in the breast.”

A. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

B. Anne Frank

C. Anne Boleyn

2. “I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

A. Buster Keaton

B. Arnold Palmer

C. G. K. Chesterton

3. “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

A. John Steinbeck

B. Dilbert

C. Malcolm X

4. “Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.”

A. Jim Thorpe

B. Bertrand Russell

C. Nicholas Copernicus

5. “Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”

A. Bill Clinton

B. Albert Camus

C. Dr. Ben Carson

6. “My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.”

A. Leon Trotsky

B. Orville Wright

C. Rodney Dangerfield

7. “Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

A. Bill Gates

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Elvis Presley

8. “Our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, and no one ever comes to warm himself at it; the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.”

A. Vincent van Gogh

B. Bernie Sanders

C. Ronda Rousey

9. “Forcing the world to adjust to oneself has always seemed to me an honorable life work…That one fails in the end is irrelevant.”

A. Rodney King

B. Gore Vidal

C. Augusto Pinochet

10. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”

A. Donald Trump

B. Goldie Hawn

C. Mark Twain

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 4-B , 5-B , 6-C , 7-B , 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:

“Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books and told by college professors.”

– Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, was an American writer, publisher and philosopher.

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #426

Published May 22-24, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version) 

1. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

A. Vincent van Gogh

B. Alger Hiss

C. Whoopi Goldberg

2. “Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.”

A. Jed Clampett

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

3. “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

A. Fidel Castro

B. Lorne Michaels

C. Oscar Wilde

4. “There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”

A. George Stephanopoulos

B. John Boehner

C. Alexis de Tocqueville

5. “The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

A. Eddie Murphy

B. Eddie Rickenbacker

C. Eddie Haskell

6. “Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. “

A. G. K. Chesterton

B. J. K. Rowling

C. Leo Tolstoy

7. “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.”

A. Kenny Rogers

B. Christopher Columbus

C. Confucius

8. “You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence.”

A. Madonna

B. Robin Williams

C. Tom Sawyer

9. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

A. Sophia Loren

B. Lawrence Welk

C. Lucille Ball

10. “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”

A. Perry Mason

B. Robert Frost

C. O. J. Simpson

Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-C , 4-C , 5-B , 6-A , 7-C , 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:

“Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.”

–Elsa Schiaparelli, 1890-1973, was an Italian-French designer.

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April 20, 2015 · 3:34 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #421

(Published April 18, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version) 

1. “A man said to the universe:/ ‘Sir, I exist!’/ ‘However,’ replied the universe,/ ‘The fact has not created in me/ A sense of obligation.’”

A. Stephen Colbert

B. Stephen King

C. Stephen Crane

2. “Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

A. Wilford Brimley

B. G.K. Chesterton

C. Leonard Bernstein

3. “The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Humphrey Bogart

C. O. J. Simpson

4. “It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while.”

A. Luther Burbank

B. Janet Reno

C. John Denver

5. “In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove;/ In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”

A. Alfred Hitchcock

B. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

C. Alfred E. Neuman

6. “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ”

A. Millard Fillmore

B. Dennis Rodman

C. Bret Harte

7. “Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s problems.”

A. Marshall McLuhan

B. John Boehner

C. Paul McCartney

8. “Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”

A. Jesse Ventura

B. Jane Austen

C. Lisa Kudrow

9. “It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

A. Phil Donahue

B. Woody Allen

C. Vladimir Putin

10. “We are at an epochal, transitional moment in the history of life on Earth. There is no other time as risky, but no other time as promising for the future of life on our planet.”

A. Carl Sagan

B. James T. Kirk

C. Leonardo da Vinci

Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 3-A , 4-A , 5-B , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 9-B , 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:

“Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.”

~St. Jerome, 347-420, was the foremost biblical scholar of the ancient Catholic Church.

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