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March 27, 2016 · 3:45 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #468

Published March 27, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle(Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

 

1. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'”

 

A. Mitch McConnell

B. Robin Williams

C. Martin Luther King

 

2. “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

 

A. Arnold Schwarzenegger

B. Jake Tapper

C. Anais Nin

 

3. “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” 

 

A. Rachael Ray

B. O. J. Simpson

C. Theodore Roosevelt

 

4. “The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”

 

A. King Edward VIII

B. Raúl Castro

C. Bruce Springsteen

 

5. “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Bill Gates

C. Wilt Chamberlain

 

6. “‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,/ ‘To talk of many things:/ Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–/ Of cabbages–and kings–/ And why the sea is boiling hot–/And whether pigs have wings.'”

 

A. Dr. Seuss

B. Lewis Carroll

C. Ernest Hemingway

 

7. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

 

A. Marilyn Monroe

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. John Kasich

 

8. “If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred. If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive.”

 

A. The Art of the Deal

B. Dianetics

C. Bhagavad Gita

 

9. “You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he’ll be booed. I don’t care if he’s the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.”

 

A. Mark Twain

B. Mark Russell

C. Mark Zuckerberg

 

10. “Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.”

 

A. Garrison Keillor

B. Pope Francis

C. George Washington

 

 

 

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

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

― Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973, a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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October 31, 2015 · 2:45 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #448

Published November 2, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “The body of a young woman is God’s greatest achievement…Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can’t have everything.”

 

A. Malcolm X

B. Neil Simon

C. Sir Isaac Newton

 

2. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

 

A. Albert Einstein

B. Michael Jordan

C. John Kenneth Galbraith

 

3. “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

 

A. Leon Trotsky

B. John Barrymore

C. Justin Bieber

 

4. “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

 

A. Mark Zuckerberg

B. Mark Trail

C. Mark Twain

 

5. “The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

 

A. Richard Bach

B. Marco Rubio

C. Lewis Carroll

 

6. “Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.”

 

A. Samuel Adams

B. Samuel L. Jackson

C. Samuel Johnson

 

7. “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

 

A. Alanis Morissette

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Martin O’Malley

 

8. “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”

 

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Pope Francis

C. Garrison Keillor

 

9. “Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”

 

A. Eleanor Roosevelt

B. Martha Washington

C. Michelle Obama

 

10. “We wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.”

 

A. Wolf Blitzer

B. Cyrano de Bergerac

C. Ann Landers

 

 

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

“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind… At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.”

― Robertson Davies, 1913-1995, was a Canadian writer, journalist, and professor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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June 20, 2015 · 2:09 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #430

Published June 20-21, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


                       SPECIAL FATHER’S DAY QUIZ

1. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”

A. Miley Cyrus

B. Dick Van Dyke

C. Sigmund Freud

2. “To be a successful father there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.”

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Colin Powell

C. George Washington

3. “The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”

A. Macaulay Culkin

B. Tim Russert

C. George Will

4. “It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.”

A. Alice Walker

B. Beyoncé

C. Rosalynn Carter

5. “Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”

A. Johnny Carson

B. Meryl Streep

C. Aldous Huxley

6. “Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

A. Oscar Robertson

B. Oscar de la Renta

C. Oscar Wilde

7. “People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.”

A. Sherman Hemsley

B. Carroll O’Conner

C. Edith Bunker

8. “There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.”

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Jack Johnson

C. Lyndon Johnson

9. “Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.”

A. Floyd Mayweather

B. Red Buttons

C. Ward Cleaver

10. “The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”

A. Garrison Keillor

B. Vladimir Putin

C. Leonardo da Vinci

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

“This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too.”

–Harlan Coben, b.1962, writes mystery novels and thrillers.

 

 

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December 8, 2013 · 1:38 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #350

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published December 8, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “That’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”

A. Johnny Carson

B. Chet Huntley

C. Garrison Keillor

 

2. “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

A. Charles Bukowski

B. Adlai Stevenson

C. Buster Keaton

 

3. “In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”

A. Engelbert Humperdinck

B. George Washington

C. Leo Tolstoy

 

4. “You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

A. Harry Truman

B. Ronald Reagan

C. Yogi Bear

 

 

5. “Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.”

A. Noel Coward

B. William Shakespeare

C. Barbara Woodhouse

 

6. “Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”

A. Katy Perry

B. John Updike

C. Harriet Tubman

 

7. “The human mind has to ask ‘Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?’ And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.”

A. R. D. Laing

B. Alexander Hamilton

C. Kanye West

 

8. “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

A. Paul Gauguin

B. Jimmy Carter

C. H. L. Mencken

 

9. “History is a vast early warning system.”

A. Norman Rockwell

B. Norman Bates

C. Norman Cousins

 

10. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

A. Muhammad Ali

B. Nelson Mandela

C. Sandra Bullock

 

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

 

“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.” – Alexander Smith

 (Smith, 1829-1867, was a Scottish poet.)

 

 

 

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