*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Published November 9, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)
1. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones”
A. Renée Zellweger
B. John Lennon
C. Christopher Columbus
2. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
A. Thurgood Marshall
B. Stephen Colbert
C. Aristotle
3. “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”
A. Count Basie
B. Arthur Fonzarelli
C. Albert Einstein
4. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
A. Plato
B. Marcel Marceau
C. Edmund Hillary
5. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
A. Betsy Ross
B. Winston Churchill
C. Vincent Van Gogh
6. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
A. Margaret Sanger
B. Margaret Mitchell
C. Margaret Thatcher
7. “I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
A. James K. Polk
B. Donald Trump
C. Henry David Thoreau
8. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”
A. John Maynard Keynes
B. Bill Nye
C. Orville Redenbacher
9. “She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.”
A. Gypsy Rose Lee
B. Matthew McConaughey
C. Madison Bumgarner
10. “The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”
A. Jerry Brown
B. Napoleon Bonaparte
C. Andy Warhol
Answers: 1-B, 2-C , 3-C , 4-A , 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:
“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steve Furtick
(Furtick, b. 1980, is a North Carolina pastor and author.)
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