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What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #429
Published June 12-14, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)
1. “A nation that destroys it’s soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. Mitch McConnell
C. Elton John
2. “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
A. James Thurber
B. James Bond
C. James Madison
3. “Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn’t grow up can be vice president.”
A. Dan Quayle
B. Karl Marx
C. Johnny Carson
4. “I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.”
A. John Wooden
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Joseph McCarthy
5. “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
A. Harry Shearer
B. Harry Potter
C. Harry S. Truman
6. “They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.”
A. Ronald Reagan
B. William Shakespeare
C. Queen Elizabeth II
7. “Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.”
A. Martin Luther King
B. Maurice Chevalier
C. George Zimmer
8. “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
A. B.F. Skinner
B. C.S. Lewis
C. H.L. Mencken
9. “The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.”
A. George Stephanopolous
B. Gene Hackman
C. Nancy Reagan
10. “Progress may have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.”
A. John McCain
B. Ogden Nash
C. Ferdinand Magellan
Answers: 1-A, 2-A , 3-C , 4-B , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 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:
“Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain’t never killed nobody.”
~Moms Mabley, 1894-1975, was an American standup comedian.
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What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #425
Published May 15-17, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)
1. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
A. A.A. Milne
B. Walt Disney
C. George Orwell
2. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”
A. Benjamin Disraeli
B. Jack Nicklaus
C. Whoopi Goldberg
3. “The success of a ghost story may be judged by its
thermometrical quality; if it sends a cold shiver
down one’s spine, it has done its job and done
it well.”
A. Edith Wharton
B. Beatrix Potter
C. Shirley Temple
4. “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Philip K. Dick
C. Dwight Eisenhower
5. “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”
A. George Noory
B. James Madison
C. Albert Einstein
6. “A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.”
A. Roman Polanski
B. Bernie Sanders
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
A. John Kenneth Galbraith
B. Suze Orman
C. Nancy Reagan
8. “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
A. Bob Woodward
B. Harry S. Truman
C. Stephen Hawking
9. “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations… The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.”
A. Winston Churchill
B. Roseanne Barr
C. Orville Wright
10. “Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”
A. Mike Huckabee
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Voltaire
Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-A , 4-B , 5-C , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 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:
“The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: ‘I do not know.'”
–Andre Maurois, 1885-1967, was a French biographer, novelist and essayist.
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