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What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #440

Published September 8, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.”

 

A. Jar Jar Binks

B. JoJo Starbuck

C. Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

2. “What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”

 

A. Anaïs Nin

B. Scott Walker

C. Thomas Jefferson

 

3. “I, like every soldier of America, will die for freedom of the press, even for the freedom of newspapers that call me everything that is a good deal less than being a gentleman.”

 

A. Chris Kyle

B. Cyndi Lauper

C. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

4. “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”

 

A. Anne Hathaway

B. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

C. Ann Coulter

 

5. “You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.”

 

A. Gertrude Stein

B. L. Frank Baum

C. Anthony Weiner

 

6. “I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.”

 

A. Justin Timberlake

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Oscar Hammerstein

 

7. “The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.”

 

A. Herman Cain

B. Herman Melville

C. Herman Munster

 

8. “There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

 

A. Alan King

B. Prince William

C. Helen Keller

 

9. “Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”

 

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Margaret Mitchell

C. Engelbert Humperdinck

 

10. “If I can stop one heart from breaking,/ I shall not live in vain;/ If I can ease one life the aching,/ Or cool one pain,/ Or help one fainting robin/ Unto his nest again,/ I shall not live in vain.”

 

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Judy Blume

C. Jackie Gleason

 

 

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

“When a fellow says, ‘It hain’t the money, but th’ principle o’ the thing,’ it’s th’ money.”

–Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, was a popular Indiana humorist and journalist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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