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*Quotation Quotient

  (Published February 9, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he’ll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.”

A. William Shatner

B. Emmet Kelly

C. Philip Seymour Hoffman

 

2. “We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

A. H.G. Wells

B. Orson Welles

C. Wells Fargo

 

3. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”

A. Marlene Dietrich

B. Mitch McConnell

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

 

4. “If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”

A. H.L. Mencken

B. Hannibal Lecter

C. John Adams

 

5. “The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It’s one reason why they don’t die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.”

A. Rihanna

B. Margaret Mead

C. Charles Darwin

 

6. “Jeepers Creepers, where’d ya get those peepers?”

A. Johnny Cash

B. Johnny Depp

C. Johnny Mercer

 

7. “What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it…. which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.'”

A. Thomas Paine

B. Robert A. Heinlein

C. P.T. Barnum

 

8. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.”

A. Oliver Wendell Holmes

B. Alexander Graham Bell

C. Neil Patrick Harris

 

9. “I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.”

A. H. Ross Perot

B. R. Buckminster Fuller

C. J. Edgar Hoover

 

10. “He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.”

A. Ursula Le Guin

B. John McCain

C. Kim Kardashian

 

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

 “Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.” ―William Ernest Hocking

 (Hocking, 1873-1966, was an American philosopher and author.)