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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? #461

Published February 7, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

1. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”

A. Socrates

B. Ken Kesey

C. Cosmo Kramer

2. “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”

A. Taylor Swift

B. Kim Jong-un

C. Robert E. Lee

3. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/ To have a thankless child!”

A. William Shakespeare

B. Laura Ingalls Wilder

C. Carl Jung

4. “There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.”

A. Steven Avery

B. Hubert H. Humphrey

C. Timothy Leary

5. “That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,/ That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”

A. Lord Alfred Tennyson

B. Neil Diamond

C. Thomas Paine

6. “The Americans don’t really understand what’s going on in Bosnia. To them it’s the unspellables killing the unpronounceables.”

A. H. G. Wells

B. P. J. O’Rourke

C. O. J. Simpson

7. “They all wanted to adopt me in some way, and, for the price of their care and influence, have me resemble them.”

A. Bill Clinton

B. Sylvia Plath

C. Eddie Rickenbacker

8. “I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”

A. Harry Potter

B. Martin O’Malley

C. Ralph Ellison

9. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”

A. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

B. Dr. Christiaan Barnard

C. Alan Greenspan

10. “We’re going to win on Sunday. I guarantee it.”

A. Vince Lombardi

B. Muhammad Ali

C. Joe Namath

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

“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”

― Robert Orben, b. 1927, is an American comedy writer and magician, and wrote speeches for Gerald Ford.

What’s Your QQ*? #364

*Quotation Quotient

(Published March 16, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.”

A. F. Lee Bailey

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. F. Murray Abraham

2. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”

A. John F. Kennedy

B. Al Bundy

C. H. G. Wells

3. “The longing for certainty… is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.”

A. Eartha Kitt

B. Oliver Wendell Holmes

C. Ring Lardner

4. “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Franklin Roosevelt

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work – the night watchman.”

A. Bruce Willis

B. Tallulah Bankhead

C. Marie Antoinette

6. “Awop-bop-a-loo-mop alop bam boom.”

A. Mick Jagger

B. Pat Boone

C. Little Richard

7. “Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”

A. Leonardo da Vinci

B. Robin Thicke

C. Stephen King

8. “I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

A. George M. Cohan

B. Margaret Mead

C. Noah Webster

9. “A cult is a religion with no political power.”

A. Pope Francis

B. Laura Ingalls Wilder

C. Tom Wolfe

10. “As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space–it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.”

A. Hubert H. Humphrey

B. Louis XVI

C. Neil Armstrong

Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-B , 4-B , 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 people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so … their position is almost laughably hopeless.” – Odell Shepard

(Shepard, 1884-1967, was an American professor, politician, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.)

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