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November 29, 2015 · 9:42 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #452

Published November 29, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

1. “The more one gives, the more one has to give– like milk in the breast.”

A. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

B. Anne Frank

C. Anne Boleyn

2. “I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

A. Buster Keaton

B. Arnold Palmer

C. G. K. Chesterton

3. “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

A. John Steinbeck

B. Dilbert

C. Malcolm X

4. “Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.”

A. Jim Thorpe

B. Bertrand Russell

C. Nicholas Copernicus

5. “Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”

A. Bill Clinton

B. Albert Camus

C. Dr. Ben Carson

6. “My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.”

A. Leon Trotsky

B. Orville Wright

C. Rodney Dangerfield

7. “Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

A. Bill Gates

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Elvis Presley

8. “Our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, and no one ever comes to warm himself at it; the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.”

A. Vincent van Gogh

B. Bernie Sanders

C. Ronda Rousey

9. “Forcing the world to adjust to oneself has always seemed to me an honorable life work…That one fails in the end is irrelevant.”

A. Rodney King

B. Gore Vidal

C. Augusto Pinochet

10. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”

A. Donald Trump

B. Goldie Hawn

C. Mark Twain

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

“Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books and told by college professors.”

– Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, was an American writer, publisher and philosopher.

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #426

Published May 22-24, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version) 

1. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

A. Vincent van Gogh

B. Alger Hiss

C. Whoopi Goldberg

2. “Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.”

A. Jed Clampett

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

3. “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

A. Fidel Castro

B. Lorne Michaels

C. Oscar Wilde

4. “There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”

A. George Stephanopoulos

B. John Boehner

C. Alexis de Tocqueville

5. “The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

A. Eddie Murphy

B. Eddie Rickenbacker

C. Eddie Haskell

6. “Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. “

A. G. K. Chesterton

B. J. K. Rowling

C. Leo Tolstoy

7. “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.”

A. Kenny Rogers

B. Christopher Columbus

C. Confucius

8. “You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence.”

A. Madonna

B. Robin Williams

C. Tom Sawyer

9. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

A. Sophia Loren

B. Lawrence Welk

C. Lucille Ball

10. “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”

A. Perry Mason

B. Robert Frost

C. O. J. Simpson

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

“Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.”

–Elsa Schiaparelli, 1890-1973, was an Italian-French designer.

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August 23, 2014 · 11:12 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #387

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published August 24, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

A. Dr. Benjamin Spock

B. Jackie Gleason

C. Mark Twain

2. “As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

A. Rick Perry

B. Vincent Van Gogh

C. Michael DeBakey

3. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

A. Richard Nixon

B. Eric Clapton

C. Nelson Mandela

4. “When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale.”

A. Bill Clinton

B. Barack Obama

C. Ronald Reagan

5. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

A. Ted Cruz

B. George Orwell

C. Ralph Nader

6. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

A. David Brinkley

B. Aristotle

C. Mick Jagger

7. “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

A. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

B. George Washington

C. Timothy Leary

8. “The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

A. Bruno Mars

B. Lucille Ball

C. Juan Ponce de León

9. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

A. Audrey Hepburn

B. Wyatt Earp

C. Benjamin Franklin

10. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”

A. Socrates

B. Eddie Munster

C. Theodore Roosevelt

Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 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:

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/ Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” – William Congreve

(Congreve, 1670-1729, was an English poet and dramatist best known for his comic plays.)

What’s Your QQ*? #368

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published April 13, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “Hitch your wagon to a star.”

A. Jiminy Cricket

B. Ward Bond

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”

A. Taylor Swift

B. Judy Garland

C. Mae West

3. “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?'”

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Jules Verne

C. Davy Crockett

4. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

A. Harry Houdini

B. Woodrow Wilson

C. Barack Obama

5. “There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”

A. Mahatma Gandhi

B. Geronimo

C. William Tecumseh Sherman

6. “Lives of great men all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime,/

And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time.”

A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

B. Arthur Treacher

C. William Shakespeare

7. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

A. George W. Bush

B. Vincent van Gogh

C. Oliver Cromwell

8. “Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.”

A. Rush Limbaugh

B. Frank Underwood

C. W.C. Fields

9. “I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.”

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Bill Clinton

C. Jascha Heifetz

10. “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

A. Jack Nicholson

B. David Letterman

C. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.― Mary Wollstonecraft

(Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, was an English writer and feminist philosopher.)

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