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March 20, 2016 · 3:33 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #467

Published March 20, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle(Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

 

1. “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

 

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Paris Hilton

C. Francisco Franco

 

2. “The words ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,’ which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.”

 

A. Pauline Kael

B. Mark Twain

C. Charlie Chaplin

 

3. “I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”

 

A. Harry S. Truman

B. Ted Cruz

C. Donald Trump

 

4. “To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.”

 

A. Sally Field

B. Eminem

C. Meryl Streep

 

5. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

 

A. Albert Einstein

B. Rod Serling

C. Ben Carson

 

6. “This nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space, and we have no choice but to follow it.”

 

A. Leonid Brezhnev

B. John F. Kennedy

C. Pat Paulsen

 

7. “When it comes right down to it, nothing has changed. The English sentence is just as difficult to write as it ever was.”

 

A. Vladimir Putin

B. William Shakespeare

C. John Steinbeck

 

8. “People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don’t mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that’s going too far.”

 

A. Richard Nixon

B. Barack Obama

C. Dr. Mehmet Oz

 

9. “Children are not our creations but our guests.”

 

A. Tom Bodett

B. John Updike

C. Sarah Palin

 

10. “There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark – that sort of make everything else seem – unimportant.”

 

A. Dakota Fanning

B. Indiana Jones

C. Tennessee Williams

 

 

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

“You must remember this/ A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh./ The fundamental things apply/ As time goes by.”

–Herman Hupfeld, 1894-1951, was an American songwriter who composed “As Time Goes By,” featured in the film “Casablanca.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 29, 2015 · 9:42 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #452

Published November 29, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “The more one gives, the more one has to give– like milk in the breast.”

 

A. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

B. Anne Frank

C. Anne Boleyn

 

2. “I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

 

A. Buster Keaton

B. Arnold Palmer

C. G. K. Chesterton

 

3. “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

 

A. John Steinbeck

B. Dilbert

C. Malcolm X

 

4. “Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.”

 

A. Jim Thorpe

B. Bertrand Russell

C. Nicholas Copernicus

 

5. “Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”

 

A. Bill Clinton

B. Albert Camus

C. Dr. Ben Carson

 

6. “My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.”

 

A. Leon Trotsky

B. Orville Wright

C. Rodney Dangerfield

 

7. “Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

 

A. Bill Gates

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Elvis Presley

 

8. “Our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, and no one ever comes to warm himself at it; the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.”

 

A. Vincent van Gogh

B. Bernie Sanders

C. Ronda Rousey

 

9. “Forcing the world to adjust to oneself has always seemed to me an honorable life work…That one fails in the end is irrelevant.”

 

A. Rodney King

B. Gore Vidal

C. Augusto Pinochet

 

10. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”

 

A. Donald Trump

B. Goldie Hawn

C. Mark Twain

 

 

 

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

“Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books and told by college professors.”

– Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, was an American writer, publisher and philosopher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 2, 2014 · 9:47 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #358

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published February 2, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

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

A. Pete Carroll

B. Joe Namath

C. Peyton Manning

 

2. “What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”

A. Charles Manson

B. Charles Barkley

C. Charles Darwin

 

3. “The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefiting the poor. But what happens instead is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger… nothing ever comes out for the poor.”

A. Huey Long

B. Bernie Sanders

C. Pope Francis

 

4. “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”

A. Dennis Rodman

B. The Dalai Lama

C. Route 66

 

5. “Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ”

A. George Orwell

B. Steve Jobs

C. Albus Dumbledore

 

6. “I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Groucho Marx

C. Charlie Brown

 

7. “I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.”

A. Neil Armstrong

B. Jane Fonda

C. Barry Goldwater

 

8. “Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”

A. Pete Rose

B. Pete Townshend

C. Pete Seeger

 

9. “I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.”

A. Jim Vanderzwaan

B. John Steinbeck

C. Roald Amundsen

 

10. “When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”

A. Muhammad Ali

B. William “The Refrigerator” Perry

C. Dick Butkus

 

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

 “When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ” –  George Raveling

 (Raveling, b. 1937, coached college basketball at Washington State, Iowa and USC.)

 

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October 20, 2013 · 10:56 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #343

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published October 20, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “The beaches are clean where once they festered with fish guts and flies. The canneries which once put up a sickening stench are gone, their places filled with restaurants, antique shops and the like. They fish for tourists now, not pilchards, and that species they are not likely to wipe out.”

A. Clint Eastwood

B. John Steinbeck

C. Robert Louis Stevenson

2. “He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

A. Drew Barrymore

B. Christopher Columbus

C. Joseph Heller

3. “Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.”

A. W.H. Auden

B. Kim Kardashian

C. Henry Cabot Lodge

4. “Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent; it still contracts to a smaller number, till in time it centers in a single person.”

A. Lyndon Johnson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Magic Johnson

5. “The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”

A. Gilbert K. Chesterton

B. Evel Knievel

C. Rube Goldberg

6. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

A. Harry S. Truman

B. Wolfgang Puck

C. Dwight D. Eisenhower

7.  “A man always has two reasons for what he does–a good one, and the real one.”

A. Wayne Gretzky

B. Dagwood Bumstead

C. J.P. Morgan

8. “When I was born I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.”

A. Marcel Marceau

B. Gracie Allen

C. Spiro Agnew

9. “Play it once, Sam. For old times’ sake.”

A. Dustin Hoffman

B. Kirstie Alley

C. Ingrid Bergman

10. “School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts ‘Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.'”

A. Barbara Kingsolver

B. Barbara Boxer

C. Barbara Stanwyck

 

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

 “Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.” – Walter Savage Landor

(Landor, 1775-1864, was an English writer and poet.)

 

 


 

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