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October 4, 2015 · 3:53 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #444

Published October 4, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

 

1. “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”

 

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Jerry Brown

C. Michael Phelps

 

2. “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

 

A. Miley Cyrus

B. J.K. Rowling

C. J. Edgar Hoover

 

3. “A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”

 

A. Mark Twain

B. Jacques Cousteau

C. Raúl Castro

 

4. “I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”

 

A. Rick Santorum

B. Trevor Noah

C. Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

5. “An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.”

 

A. Robert Downey Jr.

B. Robert Oppenheimer

C. Robert Pattinson

 

6. “You have to be odd to be number one.”

 

A. Dr. Seuss

B. Stephen Hawking

C. Donald Trump

 

7. “No one shall give or receive a present, either during a candidacy or during or after a term of office.”

 

A. John Boehner

B. Conan O’Brien

C. Cicero

 

8. “The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever galling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

 

A. Ogden Nash

B. John Muir

C. Janet Reno

 

9. “Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.”

 

A. Wernher von Braun

B. Mario Andretti

C. Yoko Ono

 

10. “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

 

A. George Zimmerman

B. George Washington

C. George Bernard Shaw

 

 

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

“Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.”

–Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1899-1977, a reform-minded American educator, served as president and chancellor of the University of Chicago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 25, 2015 · 3:03 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #422

Published April 24, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


1. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”

 

A. Thomas A. Edison

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Thomas Friedman

 

2. “Caution is the eldest child of wisdom”

 

A. Groucho Marx

B. Clarence Thomas

C. Victor Hugo

 

3. “You can fool too many people too much of the time.”

 

A. James Thurber

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Brian Williams

 

4. “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

 

A. John Travolta

B. John Muir

C. John Adams

 

5. “It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.”

 

A. William Shakespeare

B. Al Roker

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

6. “I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

 

A. Chris Christie

B. William Penn

C. Ella Fitzgerald

 

7. “If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

 

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Stevie Wonder

C. Aaron Copland

 

8. “And freedom, oh freedom, well, that’s just some people talkin’/  

Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

 

A. The Yardbirds

B. The Byrds

C. The Eagles

 

9. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

 

A. Elton John

B. Robert Frost

C. Alexander Haig

 

10.  “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

 

A. Don Rickles

B. Sigmund Freud

C. John Steinbeck

 

 

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 4-B , 5-C , 6-B , 7-A , 8-C , 9-B , 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:

 “If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest.”

 ―Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, was an American cartoonist, humorist and journalist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 3, 2015 · 8:27 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #419

(Published April 3, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version)


 

1. “What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?”        

 

A. Edward Norton

B. Edward Snowden

C. Edward Albee

 

2. “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

 

A. James Thurber

B. Sarah Silverman

C. Thomas Edison

 

3. “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

 

A. John Lennon

B. John Muir

C. John Travolta

 

4. “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

 

A. Will Farrell

B. Susan B. Anthony

C. Nikita Khrushchev

 

5. “Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;/ Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;/ Thy fate is the common fate of all,/ Into each life some rain must fall,/ Some days must be dark and dreary.”

 

A. Billy Joel

B. Shel Silverstein

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

6. “The town was so dull that when the tide went out it refused to come back.”

 

A. Fred Allen

B. Jason Burnett

C. Bill Kampe

 

7. “Democracy don’t rule the world/ You’d better get that in your head/  This world is ruled by violence/ But I guess that’s better left unsaid.”

 

A. Bob Dylan

B. Donald Rumsfeld

C. Robert Frost

 

8. “When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.”

 

A. Frédéric Chopin

B. Orson Welles

C. James Naismith

 

9. “The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.”

 

A. Richard Nixon

B. Martina Navratilova

C. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

10. “That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

 

A. George Foreman

B. George Washington

C. George Carlin

 

 

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

“No social system in any country will bring us happiness, health, and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.”

– Clement R. Attlee, 1883-1967, was a Labour Party leader and British prime minister from 1945-1951.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 26, 2014 · 8:39 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #383

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published July 27, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.”

 

A. Fred Allen

B. Fred Astaire

C. Fred Flintstone

 

2. “Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”

 

A. Will Rogers

B. Chris Christie

C. Aristotle

 

3. “I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”

 

A. Sally Field

B. Jack Benny

C. Audie Murphy

 

4. “This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.”

 

A. Neville Chamberlain

B. Angie Dickinson

C. Winston Churchill

 

5. “Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

 

A. Mel Gibson

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Howard Hughes

 

6. “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

 

A. Wayne Gretzky

B. Joan of Arc

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

7. “I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown; for going out, I found, was really going in.”

 

A. John Muir

B. Rocky Balboa

C. Theodore Roosevelt

 

8. “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

A. George Carlin

B. George Washington Carver

C. George Washington

 

9. “The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.”

 

A. Michele Bachmann

B. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

C. Joseph Stalin

 

10. “Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.”

 

A. Rosalynn Carter

B. Charles Dickens

C. Sharon Stone

 

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-B , 4-A , 5-B , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 9-B , 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:

 Television: “I didn’t ever dream it would be so good, the color and everything. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing!” – Vladimir Zworykin

 (Zworykin, 1889-1982, a Russian-born American electronic engineer and inventor, has been called the “Father of Television.”)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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