*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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