(Published March 22, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version)
1. “The trick in life isn’t getting what you want, my dear, it’s wanting it after you get it.”
A. Katharine Hepburn
B. Fyodor Dostoevsky
C. Eldridge Cleaver
2. “If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.”
A. Irving Berlin
B. John Kerry
C. Dorothy Parker
3. “Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Albert Einstein
C. Jennifer Lopez
4. “The thought of death has now become a part of my life. I read the obituaries every day just for the satisfaction of not seeing my name there.”
A. Neil Simon
B. Neil deGrasse Tyson
C. Neil Patrick Harris
5. “Fame is a fickle food/ Upon a shifting plate.”
A. Rachael Ray
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Donald Trump
6. “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”
A. Yogi Berra
B. Whoopi Goldberg
C. Henry Ward Beecher
7. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
A. Charlie Chaplin
B. Ringo Starr
C. Anwar al-Sadat
8. “Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?”
A. Steven Spielberg
B. Steven Wright
C. Steven Seagal
9. “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
A. Marcel Marceau
B. Salvador Dali
C. Mark Twain
10. “Every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn’t.”
A. Dan Savage
B. Larry King
C. Al Jolson
Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-B , 4-A , 5-B , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 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:
“Mankind is safer when men seek pleasure than when they seek the power and the glory.”
―Geoffrey Gorer
(Gorer, 1905-1985, was an English anthropologist and author.)
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