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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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December 6, 2015 · 11:47 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #453

Published December 6, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

 

A. Conan O’Brien

B. Caitlyn Jenner

C. Charles Darwin

 

2. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

 

A. Winston Churchill

B. Marco Polo

C. Paul McCartney

 

3. “I’m a wonderful housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.”

 

A. Katie Couric

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

4. “Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives…. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”

 

A. Bernie Sanders

B. Andy Williams

C. John Lennon

 

5. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

 

A. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

B. Jim Carrey

C. Timothy Leary

 

6. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

 

A. Chevy Chase

B. Viktor Frankl

C. Art Linkletter

 

7. “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”

 

A. Johnny Carson

B. Rachel Carson

C. Kit Carson

 

8. “Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.”

 

A. Jimmy Buffett

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. William Shakespeare

 

9. “If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.”

 

A. Wolfgang Puck

B. Elizabeth Warren

C. The Mad Hatter

 

10. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

 

A. Fidel Castro

B. Michael Richards

C. Walter Winchell

 

 

 

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

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”

–Paul Dudley White, 1886-1973, was an American physician and a pioneering cardiologist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 18, 2015 · 9:28 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #425

Published May 15-17, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)
 

1. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

 

A. A.A. Milne

B. Walt Disney

C. George Orwell

 

2. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”

 

A. Benjamin Disraeli

B. Jack Nicklaus

C. Whoopi Goldberg

 

3. “The success of a ghost story may be judged by its

thermometrical quality; if it sends a cold shiver

down one’s spine, it has done its job and done

it well.”

 

A. Edith Wharton

B. Beatrix Potter

C. Shirley Temple

 

4. “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

 

A. Sigmund Freud

B. Philip K. Dick

C. Dwight Eisenhower

 

5. “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”

 

A. George Noory

B. James Madison

C. Albert Einstein

 

6. “A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.”

 

A. Roman Polanski

B. Bernie Sanders

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

7. “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

 

A. John Kenneth Galbraith

B. Suze Orman

C. Nancy Reagan

 

8. “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

 

A. Bob Woodward

B. Harry S. Truman

C. Stephen Hawking

 

9. “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations… The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.”

 

A. Winston Churchill

B. Roseanne Barr

C. Orville Wright

 

10. “Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”

 

A. Mike Huckabee

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Voltaire

 

 

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

 “The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: ‘I do not know.'”

 –Andre Maurois, 1885-1967, was a French biographer, novelist and essayist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 11, 2015 · 5:51 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #407

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published January 11, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

 

A. Victor Hugo

B. Mike Tyson

C. Michael Jackson

 

2. “Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.”

 

A. Adam Carolla

B. Adam Smith

C. Eve Arden

 

3. “Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”

 

A. Walter Lippmann

B. George W. Bush

C. Bobby Fischer

 

4. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”

 

A. W. C. Fields

B. Rutherford B. Hayes

C. Richard M. Nixon

 

5. “If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”

 

A. Hillary Clinton

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

6. “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

 

A. Francisco  Franco

B. Charles Dickens

C. Benjamin Franklin

 

7. “The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”

 

A. Erich Fromm

B. Rod Serling

C. Ellen DeGeneres

 

8. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

 

A. Louis Armstrong

B. Winston Churchill

C. Laurence Olivier

 

9. “No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”

 

A. Bertrand Russell

B. Ed Sullivan

C. Larry King

 

10. “What terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American tanks or bombs or bullets, it’s a girl with a book.”

 

A. Karl Marx

B. Malala Yousafzai

C. Chuck Schumer

 

 

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

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie ten Boom

 (Ten Boom, 1892-1983, a Dutch Christian, was imprisoned during WWII for helping hundreds of Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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