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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.

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #454

Published December 13, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

1. “A daydreamer is prepared for most things.”

A. Davy Jones

B. Joyce Carol Oates

C. Thomas Jefferson

2. “When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

A. Alexander Graham Bell

B. Monty Hall

C. Marie Antoinette

3. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary new material, but the warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

A. Hulk Hogan

B. Carl Jung

C. Thomas Edison

4. “The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder

in modern life.”

A. Lucy van Pelt

B. Don Knotts

C. Thomas Moore

5. “A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.”

A. Jillian Michaels

B. Nikita Khrushchev

C. Harry Potter

6. “The way a crow/ Shook down on me/ The dust of snow/ From a hemlock tree/ Has given my heart/ A change of mood/ And saved some part/ Of a day I had rued.”

A. John Belushi

B. William Shakespeare

C. Robert Frost

7. “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

A. Bruce Lee

B. Harper Lee

C. Robert E. Lee

8. “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

A. Pablo Picasso

B. Michelangelo

C. Mickey Mantle

9. “If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it.”

A. Mariah Carey

B. Confucius

C. Beyoncé

10. “If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?”

A. Condoleezza Rice

B. Will Rogers

C. Sarah Palin

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

“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”

― Goi Nasu

(Goi Nasu’s biographical information is unknown.)

What’s Your QQ*? #356

*Quotation Quotient

(Published January 19, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

A. H. G. Wells

B. Miguel de Cervantes

C. Benjamin Franklin

2. “My apple trees will never get across/ And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him./ He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.'”

A. Robert De Niro

B. Robert Mapplethorpe

C. Robert Frost

3. “Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it, but ahead of it.”

A. Marshall McLuhan

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Homer Simpson

4. “Tar-Baby ain’t sayin’ nuthin’, en Brer Fox he lay low.”

A. Margaret Mitchell

B. Joel Chandler Harris

C. Sesame Street

5. “In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Voltaire

C. Luke Skywalker

6. “Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases”

A. Chris Brown

B. Molly Brown

C. Jerry Brown

7. “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

A. Harper Lee

B. Leonardo DiCaprio

C. Mark Twain

8. “When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”

A. Herman Munster

B. Herman’s Hermits

C. Hermann Hesse

9. “They paved paradise/ And put up a parking lot.”

A. Joni Mitchell

B. Chris Christie

C. Joan Baez

10. “The security we profess to seek in foreign adventures, we will lose in our decaying cities.”

A. Bill de Blasio

B. Martin Luther King, Jr.

C. James Madison

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

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall

(Hall, 1868-1956, wrote a biography of Voltaire, in which she wrote those words as an illustration of his beliefs.)

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