Quiz Quotes

• I love anything quiz related.

  Natasha Hamilton

  Related

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• Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

  Paul Scofield

  Cheating, Comic, Shows

  "Fictional character: Mark Van Doren". "Quiz Show", www.imdb.com. September 23, 1994.

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• Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Cherish, Theological, Knows

  Twitter post from May 29, 2015

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• My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.

  Roger von Oech

  Life, Taken, College

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  There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

  Andy Stanley

  Character, Tests, Cramming

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.162, Multnomah

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• Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

  W. H. Auden

  Math, Tests, Answers

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.219, DEBOLS!LLO

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• I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

  Maury Povich

  Games, Host, Gamer

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• My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Remembers Everything, Young Generation

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing - which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.

  Tammara Webber

  Friday, Class, Missing

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Heart, Broken

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Class, Giving, Challenges

  "A Walk to Remember". Book by Nicholas Sparks, www.beliefnet.com. 1999.

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• How does Parker’s body compare with yours ” Great. A pop quiz I thought recognizing his transition into lecture mode. “How does Parker’s body compare with mine Hmm.” I gave Parker a quick theatrical once-over and he smiled clearly catching on to my line of thought. “Nice legs and killer biceps. But I have better boobs. No question.

  Rachel Vincent

  Nice, Catching On, Transition

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• My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Beach, Lying, Moving

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• A woman’s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over, and asks, “Was it good for you?” You: a. Say, “God, yes! That was the best seventeen seconds of my life” b. Say, “Sure, as good as it gets for me with a man.” c. Put a Certs in your navel and say, “That’s for you, Mr. Bunnyman. You can have it on your way back up, after the job is finished

  Christopher Moore

  Jobs, Men, Good As It Gets

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• In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

  John Gardner

  Art, Moving, Home

  John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.35, Vintage

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• What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• The World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have often heard people say, 'I never knew I was a libertarian until I took the Quiz!'

  Ron Paul

  Country, Ideas, People

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• I was taking a lot of eyedrops three times a day and I realized I should have it checked out, that's when I was told I had a type of Chronic Dry Eye. Restasis has really worked for me and made my life easier. They're also partnering with Guide Dogs for the Blind, it's a beautiful thing where they're donating a dollar for every quiz taken on Restasis.com. It provides the blind and visually impaired with dogs, and it doesn't have government funding so what Allergan is doing really makes a difference. I'm so happy to be supporting that very inspiring organization.

  Marisa Tomei

  Beautiful, Dog, Taken

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Jail

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• I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Teacher, Jesus, Tests

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• I do a lot of talking, playing with the audience, but I don't really know what that's going to be. Somebody kind of feeds me cold. He gives me these kind of cold games that I play with the audience or quizzes that I do with them.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Talking, Games, Play

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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• After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Book, Two, Historical

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Song, Mean, Play

  Source: blog.murfie.com

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