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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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August 9, 2015 · 12:48 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #436

Published August 9, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

 

A. Milton Friedman

B. Friedrich Nietzsche

C. Sitting Bull

 

2. “Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.”

 

A. Deepak Chopra

B. Joseph Coors

C. W.C. Fields

 

3. “It is not length of Life, but depth of life.”

 

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. James Cameron

C. Raúl Castro

 

4. “I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.”

 

A. John Dillinger

B. Jimmy Carter

C. Clint Eastwood

 

5. “Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

 

A. Al Jolson

B. Aristotle

C. Harry Potter

 

6. “This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn’t say how far to separate them.”

A. Gracie Allen

B. Stephen Hawking

C. Amy Schumer

 

7. “To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.”

 

A. John Wayne

B. John Oliver

C. John Updike

 

8. “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

 

A. Peter Pan

B. Pocahontas

C. Aladdin

 

9. “Every day people are straying away from the church and back to God.”

 

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Joel Osteen

C. Lenny Bruce

 

10. “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

 

A. Tom Brady

B. Tom Clancy

C. Tom Cruise

 

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

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

—Charlotte Whitton, 1896-1975, was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada (Ottowa).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 9, 2015 · 5:28 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #406

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published January 4, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

 

A. Erich Fromm

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

C. Dr. Benjamin Spock

 

2. “Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”

 

A. Katie Couric

B. Karl Marx

C. Erica Jong

 

3. “He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”

 

A. Thomas Paine

B. Colin Powell

C. Mickey Spillane

 

4. “’Abroad,’ that large home of ruined reputations.”

 

A. George Washington

B. George Eliot

C. George Foreman

 

5. “I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.”

 

A. Charles Schulz

B. Julia Ward Howe

C. Robert Frost

 

6. “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”

 

A. Charles Chaplin

B. Arnold Schwarzenegger

C. Dan Quayle

 

7. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

 

A. B. F. Skinner

B. Roger Bannister

C. Confucius

 

8. “The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”

 

A. Sally Field

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. John Updike

 

9. “Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

 

A. Jennifer Aniston

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Pocahontas

 

10. “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: ‘This was their finest hour.’”

 

A. David Cameron

B. Paul McCartney

C. Winston Churchill

 

 

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

 “Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.” ―Zelda Fitzgerald

 (Fitzgerald, 1900-1948, was an American novelist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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December 8, 2013 · 1:38 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #350

*Quotation Quotient

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

1. “That’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”

A. Johnny Carson

B. Chet Huntley

C. Garrison Keillor

 

2. “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

A. Charles Bukowski

B. Adlai Stevenson

C. Buster Keaton

 

3. “In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”

A. Engelbert Humperdinck

B. George Washington

C. Leo Tolstoy

 

4. “You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

A. Harry Truman

B. Ronald Reagan

C. Yogi Bear

 

 

5. “Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.”

A. Noel Coward

B. William Shakespeare

C. Barbara Woodhouse

 

6. “Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”

A. Katy Perry

B. John Updike

C. Harriet Tubman

 

7. “The human mind has to ask ‘Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?’ And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.”

A. R. D. Laing

B. Alexander Hamilton

C. Kanye West

 

8. “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

A. Paul Gauguin

B. Jimmy Carter

C. H. L. Mencken

 

9. “History is a vast early warning system.”

A. Norman Rockwell

B. Norman Bates

C. Norman Cousins

 

10. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

A. Muhammad Ali

B. Nelson Mandela

C. Sandra Bullock

 

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

 

“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.” – Alexander Smith

 (Smith, 1829-1867, was a Scottish poet.)

 

 

 

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