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March 27, 2016 · 3:45 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #468

Published March 27, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle(Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

 

1. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'”

 

A. Mitch McConnell

B. Robin Williams

C. Martin Luther King

 

2. “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

 

A. Arnold Schwarzenegger

B. Jake Tapper

C. Anais Nin

 

3. “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” 

 

A. Rachael Ray

B. O. J. Simpson

C. Theodore Roosevelt

 

4. “The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”

 

A. King Edward VIII

B. Raúl Castro

C. Bruce Springsteen

 

5. “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Bill Gates

C. Wilt Chamberlain

 

6. “‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,/ ‘To talk of many things:/ Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–/ Of cabbages–and kings–/ And why the sea is boiling hot–/And whether pigs have wings.'”

 

A. Dr. Seuss

B. Lewis Carroll

C. Ernest Hemingway

 

7. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

 

A. Marilyn Monroe

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. John Kasich

 

8. “If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred. If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive.”

 

A. The Art of the Deal

B. Dianetics

C. Bhagavad Gita

 

9. “You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he’ll be booed. I don’t care if he’s the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.”

 

A. Mark Twain

B. Mark Russell

C. Mark Zuckerberg

 

10. “Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.”

 

A. Garrison Keillor

B. Pope Francis

C. George Washington

 

 

 

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

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

― Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973, a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 21, 2016 · 1:07 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #463

Published February 21, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.”

 

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Plato

C. Jackson Pollock

 

2. “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”

 

A. Archimedes

B. Wernher von Braun

C. Art Garfunkel

 

3. “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is

 possible, he is almost certainly right.  When he states that something

 is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

 

A. Arthur C. Clarke

B. Patty Duke

C. Benjamin Franklin

 

4. “A Constitution is not meant to facilitate change. It is meant to impede change, to make it difficult to change.”

 

A. Felix Unger

B. Thurgood Marshall

C. Antonin Scalia

 

5. “Imagine there’s no countries/ It isn’t hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for/ And no religion too/ Imagine all the people/ Living life in peace.”

 

A. Bob Dylan

B. John Lennon

C. LL Cool J

 

6. “We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

 

A. H. L. Mencken

B. Garrison Keillor

C. Joel Osteen

 

7. “If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”

 

A. J. Robert Oppenheimer

B. J. Edgar Hoover

C. J. Paul Getty

 

8. “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe….Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress.”

 

A. H. G. Wells

B. H. P. Lovecraft

C. A. A. Milne

 

9. “Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.”

 

A. F. Murray Abraham

B. F. Lee Bailey

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

10. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”

 

A. Selena Gomez

B. Isaac Asimov

C. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

 

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 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:

“Yesterday, upon the stair,/ I met a man who wasn’t there./ He wasn’t there again today,/ I wish, I wish he’d go away.”

–Hughes Mearns, 1875-1965, was an American educator and poet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 10, 2016 · 1:52 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #457

Published January 10, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

 

A. Winston Churchill

B. Walter Cronkite

C. Dan Aykroyd

 

2. “The hills are alive with the sound of music/ With songs they have sung for a thousand years/ The hills fill my heart with the sound of music/ My heart wants to sing every song it hears.”

 

A. Lennon & McCartney

B. Simon & Garfunkel

C. Rodgers & Hammerstein

 

3. “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

 

A. Agatha Christie

B. Justin Bieber

C. Mary Leakey

 

4. “It is a quiet and peaceful place – and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.”

 

A. Herman Melville

B. Robert Ballard

C. SpongeBob SquarePants

 

5. “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

 

A. George Washington

B. Simon Cowell

C. Salvador Dali

 

6. “The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

 

A. Pope Francis

B. Stanley Kubrick

C. Rufus T. Firefly

 

7. “Should we require a seven-day waiting period to have a child, and if so, would it be called the Brady Bunch bill?”

 

A. James Brady

B. Barack Obama

C. Bill Maher

 

8. “Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.”

 

A. Rachel Carson

B. Lance Armstrong

C. John James Audubon

 

9. “Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

 

A. Walt Disney

B. Anaïs Nin

C. Calvin Coolidge

 

10. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

 

A. Carl Sagan

B. Casey Kasem

C. Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 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:

“Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.”

–Ronni Lundy, b. 1949, is an American journalist and cookbook author.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 22, 2015 · 1:34 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #451

Published November 22, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.”

A. P. Diddy

B. R. Kelly

C. O. Henry

2. “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”

A. Reggie Jackson

B. Clint Eastwood

C. Doris Day

3. “An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.”

A. Dan Rather

B. William McKinley

C. Clayton Moore

4. “We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”

A. Jane Goodall

B. Jane Eyre

C. Jane Seymour

5. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

A. Don Rickles

B. Henry Kissinger

C. Willie Nelson

6. “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

A. Jackie Gleason

B. Cornelius Vanderbilt

C. Theodore Roosevelt

7. “When I need a little free advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.”

A. Carrie Underwood

B. George H. W. Bush

C. Mark Twain

8. “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

A. Frank Zappa

B. Socrates

C. John Dewey

9. “Trust me, Greg, when you start having little Fockers running around, you’ll feel the need for this type of security.”

A. “Casablanca”

B. “National Lampoon’s Vacation”

C. “Meet the Parents”

10. “I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”

A. Jon Stewart

B. Tony Stewart

C. Martha Stewart

 

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

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”

— Irv Kupcinet, 1912-2003, was a newspaper columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

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