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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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December 13, 2015 · 3:13 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #454

Published December 13, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “A daydreamer is prepared for most things.”

 

A. Davy Jones

B. Joyce Carol Oates

C. Thomas Jefferson

 

2. “When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

 

A. Alexander Graham Bell

B. Monty Hall

C. Marie Antoinette

 

3. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary new material, but the warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

 

A. Hulk Hogan

B. Carl Jung

C. Thomas Edison

 

4. “The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder

in modern life.”

 

A. Lucy van Pelt

B. Don Knotts

C. Thomas Moore

 

5. “A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.”

 

A. Jillian Michaels

B. Nikita Khrushchev

C. Harry Potter

 

6. “The way a crow/ Shook down on me/ The dust of snow/ From a hemlock tree/ Has given my heart/ A change of mood/ And saved some part/ Of a day I had rued.”

 

A. John Belushi

B. William Shakespeare

C. Robert Frost

 

7. “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

 

A. Bruce Lee

B. Harper Lee

C. Robert E. Lee

 

8. “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

 

A. Pablo Picasso

B. Michelangelo

C. Mickey Mantle

 

9. “If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it.”

 

A. Mariah Carey

B. Confucius

C. Beyoncé

 

10. “If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?”

 

A. Condoleezza Rice

B. Will Rogers

C. Sarah Palin

 

 

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

“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”

― Goi Nasu

(Goi Nasu’s biographical information is unknown.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 16, 2015 · 4:43 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient?#450

Published November 15, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.”

 

A. Drake

B. Plato

C. Cleopatra

 

2. “Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.”

 

A. Samuel Butler

B. Jack Benny

C. Antonio Stradivari

 

3. “Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.”

 

A. Al Gore

B. Al Capone

C. Al Bundy

 

4. “I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”

 

A. Thomas Edison

B. Galileo Galilei

C. John F. Kennedy

 

5. “All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

 

A. Charles Koch

B. William Henry Harrison

C. Warren Buffett

 

6. “Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward – your destiny – are here and now.”

 

A. Dag Hammarskjöld

B. Billy Graham

C. H. G. Wells

 

7. “Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one, or what is more probable, a very foolish one, if you, the people, are but true to yourselves and to the Constitution, there is but little harm I can do, thank God!”

 

A. Dick Cheney

B. Carly Fiorina

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

8. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”

 

A. Charles Schulz

B. Hugh Jackman

C. Christopher Columbus

 

9. “Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.”

 

A. Dennis Mitchell

B. Will Rogers

C. Sir Isaac Newton

(Editor’s Note: Subsequent fact-checking indicates that Rogers was not the originator of this quote.)

 

10. “The reaction (to Sept. 11), what to do about the Middle East. Just iron-ass. His (Dick Cheney) seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East.”

 

A. George H. W. Bush

B. Jeb Bush

C. George W. Bush

 

 

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

“If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life-support system, I definitely want to be unplugged — but not until I get down to a size eight.”

–Henriette Mantel, b. 1958, is an Emmy Award-winning American writer and director.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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August 15, 2015 · 7:57 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #437

Published August 16, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

A. Keith Olbermann

B. Lawrence Welk

C. Steve Jobs

2. “All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.”

A. Fran Lebowitz

B. Norman Vincent Peale

C. Dr. Ruth Westheimer

3. “To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.”

A. Joan Didion

B. Joan Rivers

C. Joan Baez

4. “Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”

A. Marlee Matlin

B. George Carlin

C. Lucy van Pelt

5. “A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.”

A. Justin Bieber

B. Robert A. Heinlein

C. Aaron Burr

6. “I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.”

A. Ronald Reagan

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Chester A. Arthur

7. “Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.”

A. Charles Manson

B. Captain Ahab

C. Samuel Johnson

8. “The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”

A. Sam Farr

B. Will Rogers

C. Megyn Kelly

9. “All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”

A. William Shakespeare

B. William Randolph Hearst

C. William Shatner

10. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

A. Sigmund Freud

B. Jennifer Aniston

C. Dr. Seuss

 

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

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

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

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