*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Published April 20, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)
1. “Life is something you do when you can’t get to sleep.”
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Wolf Blitzer
C. Fran Lebowitz
2. “I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.”
A. Winston Churchill
B. Henry Ford
C. Jennifer Aniston
3. “Take most people, they’re crazy about cars…I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
A. Bill Shoemaker
B. Wilbur Post
C. J.D. Salinger
4. “I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.”
A. Robert Louis Stevenson
B. Adlai Stevenson
C. McLean Stevenson
5. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
A. Benjamin Disraeli
B. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
C. Marie Antoinette
6. “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”
A. Christopher Columbus
B. Yasser Arafat
C. R.D. Laing
7. “You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight – though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.”
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Cesar Chavez
C. Francisco Goya
8. “Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
A. Hillary Clinton
B. Gloria Steinem
C. Che Guevara
9. “Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.”
A. David Letterman
B. Jesse James
C. Rudy Giuliani
10. “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
A. Sid Caesar
B. Confucius
C. Pharrell Williams
Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-C , 4-B , 5-A , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 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 never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.” – Joseph Priestley
(Priestley, 1733-1804, was an English theologian, philosopher and scientist.)
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