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What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #424

Published May 8-10, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)
 

 SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY EDITION

1. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

 

A. Oprah Winfrey

B. Louis Pasteur

C. Kim Kardashian

 

2. “Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”

 

A. Noah Webster

B. Arnold Schwarzenegger

C. Ambrose Bierce

 

3. “It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”

 

A. Bob Barker

B. Phyllis Diller

C. Pope Benedict XVI

 

4. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

 

A. Satchel Paige

B. Aristotle

C. Joseph Stalin

 

5. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

 

A. Oscar Mayer

B. Oscar Pistorius

C. Oscar Wilde

 

6. “There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness… The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.”

 

A. Andrew Jackson

B. Ralph Nader

C. Mao Tse-Tung

 

7. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

 

A. Rocky Marciano

B. Charles Darwin

C. Milton Berle

 

8. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

 

A. Al Capone

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. J. D. Salinger

 

9. “A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

 

A. Robert Frost

B. Robert Reich

C. Robert De Niro

 

10. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”

 

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Taylor Swift

C. James Joyce

 

 

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

 “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

 ― Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879-1958, was an American educational reformer, social activist, and author.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What’s Your QQ*? #337

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published September 8, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”

A. Harry S. Truman

B. Boris Yeltsin

C. Milton Friedman

2. “And in the end, through the long ages of our quest for light, it will be found that truth is still mightier than the sword.”

A. J.R.R. Tolkien

B. Gen. Douglas MacArthur

C. Frank Zappa

3. “For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”

A. Rachel Carson

B. Leonardo da Vinci

C. Neil deGrasse Tyson

4. “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”

A. Oprah Winfrey

B. Lisa Lampanelli

C. Baruch Spinoza

5. “Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.”

A. Truman Capote

B. Stephen King

C. Newt Gingrich

6. “A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”

A. Booker T. Washington

B. Denzel Washington

C. George Washington

7. “Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.”

A. Lena Horne

B. Carroll O’Connor

C. Benjamin Franklin

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. Ralph Ellison

C. Rodney Dangerfield

9. “All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”

A. James Franco

B. James Taylor

C. James Joyce

10. “If the solution to a problem of absolute disagreement extends to a call for bloodshed, then neither party has demonstrated the intelligence to formulate the question properly.”

A. John Steinbeck

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Sen. Ted Cruz

 

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

 “Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.”–  Georges Braque

 (Braque, 1882-1963,  a French painter and scultptor, helped develop Cubism.)

 

 

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