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April 17, 2016 · 12:17 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #471

Published April 17, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)

1. “He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

A. Carmen Miranda

B. Voltaire

C. Larry King

2. “How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?”

A. Charles de Gaulle

B. Christina Applegate

C. David Cameron

3. “I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.”

A. Alexander Woollcott

B. Karl Marx

C. Lucille Ball

4. “The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil.”

A. C. Everett Koop

B. L. Frank Baum

C. W. Somerset Maugham

5. “Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.”

A. Buzz Aldrin

B. Reince Priebus

C. Sophocles

6. “If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.”

A. Pope Francis

B. Kurt Vonnegut

C. Bob Hope

7. “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

A. Michael Jackson

B. Lance Ito

C. Johnnie Cochran

8. “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

A. Frederick Douglass

B. Spartacus

C. Gene Autry

9. “I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.”

A. Hermann Goering

B. Hermann Hesse

C. Herman Munster

10. “Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.”

A. George Noory

B. J. Edgar Hoover

C. Will Rogers

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

“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.”

–Bill McGlashen

What’s Your QQ*? #355

*Quotation Quotient

(Published January 12, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”

A. W. Somerset Maugham

B. Queen Elizabeth II

C. Alexander Hamilton

2. “A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.”

A. Rufus T. Firefly

B. George W. Bush

C. Golda Meir

3. “How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!”

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Ellen DeGeneres

C. Chou En-lai

4. “The best thing about animals is they don’t talk much”

A. Dr. Dolittle

B. Thornton Wilder

C. Mufasa

5. “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,/ One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them/ In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”

A. L. Frank Baum

B. Lewis Carroll

C. J.R.R. Tolkien

6. “Familiarity breeds contempt.”

A. Aesop

B. Spartacus

C. Adele

7. “Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.”

A. Albert Einstein

B. Mark Twain

C. Forrest Gump

8. “I have found that failure is a far better teacher than success.”

A. Bernard Baruch

B. Lester Maddox

C. Matt Lauer

9. “Mad Dogs & Englishmen/ Go out in the midday sun.”

A. Noel Coward

B. Winston Churchill

C. Camilla Parker Bowles

10. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

A. Oscar the Grouch

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Oscar Robertson

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

“The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.” – James Thomson

(Thomson, 1700-1748, was a Scottish poet and playwright.)

What’s Your QQ*? #348

*Quotation Quotient

(Published November 24, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Bob Barker

C. Mick Jagger

2. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

A. Benjamin Disraeli

B. Rob Klevan

C. W. Somerset Maugham

3. “Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in…. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”

A. Jane Austen

B. Pope Benedict XVI

C. Oprah Winfrey

4. “Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

A. Johannes Gutenberg

B. Mark Zuckerberg

C. Louisa May Alcott

5. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”

A. Albert King

B. Fat Albert

C. Albert Einstein

6. “The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.”

A. H.G. Wells

B. Eckhart Tolle

C. Harry Reid

7. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

A. George Santayana

B. Bill Murray

C. Abraham Zapruder

8. “Mine eyes have seen the glory/ of the coming of the Lord;/ he is trampling out the vintage/ where the grapes of wrath are stored.”

A. Tom Joad

B. Julia Ward Howe

C. The Old Testament

9. “There was an Old Man with a beard,/ Who said, “It is just as I feared!—/ Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,/ Have all built their nests in my beard.”

A. Norman Lear

B. Edward Lear

C. King Lear

10. “Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”

A. Richard Roeper

B. Bing Crosby

C. Doris Day

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

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you make look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault

(Brault is an American free-lance writer.)

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