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May 22, 2016 · 12:18 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #476

Published May 22, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)

 

1. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

 

A. T. Boone Pickens

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. G. Gordon Liddy

 

2. “Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”

 

A. James Bond

B. James Dean

C. James Baldwin

 

3. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”

 

A. Alexander Pope

B. Malcolm X

C. Bob Hope

 

4. “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

 

A. Mark Twain

B. Lady Godiva

C. Harry S. Truman

 

5. “The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. “

 

A. Thomas Edison

B. Ralph Kramden

C. George Bernard Shaw

 

6. “The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she’s there, but nobody wants to talk about her.”

 

A. W. Somerset Maugham

B. H. Ross Perot

C. L. Frank Baum

 

7. “My husband’s German. Every night I get dressed up as Poland and he invades me.”

 

A. Bette Midler

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Megyn Kelly

 

8. “I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts… It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind.”

 

A. Duke Snider

B. Henrik Ibsen

C. Jimmy Fallon

 

9. “I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”

 

A. Oscar de la Renta

B. Oscar Pistorius

C. Oscar Wilde

 

10. “Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

 

A. J.K. Rowling

B. H. L. Mencken

C. E. B. White

 

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

“Life is complicated. It starts before we’re ready, it continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do.”

― Adrian Tan, b. 1966, is a lawyer and author from Singapore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 28, 2016 · 8:29 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #464

Published February 28, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

 

A. Ben Carson

B. Hubert Humphrey

C. Harpo Marx

 

2. “We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”

 

A. Tennessee Williams

B. Montel Williams

C. Ted Williams

 

3. “When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.”

 

A. Marie Antoinette

B. Joe Louis

C. H.L. Mencken

 

4. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

 

A. Peter Pan

B. Superman

C. Amelia Earhart

 

5. “That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”

 

A. Cleopatra

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Jeff Gordon

 

6. “No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

 

A. Lou Gehrig

B. Newt Gingrich

C. W.H. Auden

 

7. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

 

A. Robert Browning

B. Justin Bieber

C. John Lennon

 

8. “That our political system is failing to solve the bedrock problems we face is beyond dispute. One reason is that our public discourse has become the verbal equivalent of mud wrestling.”

 

A. Neil Armstrong

B. Bill Moyers

C. John Ratzenberger

 

9. “Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.”

 

A. Joan Rivers

B. Alexander Hamilton

C. Ambrose Bierce

 

10. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

 

A. Harper Lee

B. Peggy Lee

C. Robert E. Lee

 

 

 

Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-C , 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:

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

–A. Bartlett Giamatti, 1938-1989, was an American educator and the seventh Commissioner of Baseball.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 21, 2016 · 1:07 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #463

Published February 21, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.”

 

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Plato

C. Jackson Pollock

 

2. “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”

 

A. Archimedes

B. Wernher von Braun

C. Art Garfunkel

 

3. “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is

 possible, he is almost certainly right.  When he states that something

 is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

 

A. Arthur C. Clarke

B. Patty Duke

C. Benjamin Franklin

 

4. “A Constitution is not meant to facilitate change. It is meant to impede change, to make it difficult to change.”

 

A. Felix Unger

B. Thurgood Marshall

C. Antonin Scalia

 

5. “Imagine there’s no countries/ It isn’t hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for/ And no religion too/ Imagine all the people/ Living life in peace.”

 

A. Bob Dylan

B. John Lennon

C. LL Cool J

 

6. “We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

 

A. H. L. Mencken

B. Garrison Keillor

C. Joel Osteen

 

7. “If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”

 

A. J. Robert Oppenheimer

B. J. Edgar Hoover

C. J. Paul Getty

 

8. “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe….Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress.”

 

A. H. G. Wells

B. H. P. Lovecraft

C. A. A. Milne

 

9. “Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.”

 

A. F. Murray Abraham

B. F. Lee Bailey

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

10. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”

 

A. Selena Gomez

B. Isaac Asimov

C. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

 

 

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

“Yesterday, upon the stair,/ I met a man who wasn’t there./ He wasn’t there again today,/ I wish, I wish he’d go away.”

–Hughes Mearns, 1875-1965, was an American educator and poet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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September 27, 2015 · 3:49 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #443

Published September 27, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

A. Arnold Schwarzenegger

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Ivan Pavlov

2. “The night/ Hath been to me a more familiar face/ Than that of man; and in her starry shade/ Of dim and solitary loveliness/ I learned the language of another world.”

A. Shel Silverstein

B. Colin Kaepernick

C. Lord Byron

3. “I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”

A. John Lennon

B. Leo Tolstoy

C. Arnold Palmer

4. “Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead. ”

A. James Thurber

B. James Taylor

C. James Madison

5. “Jury — A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.”

A. Socrates

B. Nancy Grace

C. H. L. Mencken

6. “This was the most unkindest cut of all.”

A. Scott Walker

B. William Shakespeare

C. Jackie Collins

7. “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”

A. St. Francis of Assisi

B. Sarah Silverman

C. Bernie Sanders

8. “The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.”

A. Pelé

B. Eminem

C. Voltaire

9. “My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”

A. Errol Flynn

B. Gerald Ford

C. George Washington Carver

10. “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”

A. Yogi Bear

B. Yogi Berra

C. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

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

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

~ Howard Thurman, 1899-1981, was an American theologian, educator, author, and civil rights leader.

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