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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
  • I love anything quiz related. -- Natasha Hamilton
  • Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. -- Paul Scofield
  • My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. -- Lynne Truss
  • A quiz: If I am my brother's keeper, who am I? (Answer: me.) -- Jack Handey
  • There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz. -- Andy Stanley
  • You can tell James Duthie to shove that quiz. I have a few other words I can tell you about the quiz. -- John Tortorella
  • 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
  • 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
  • My roommate says, "I'm going to take a shower and shave. Does anyone need to use the bathroom?" It's like some weird quiz where he reveals the answer first. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • 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
  • It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? -- Richard Bach
  • 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
  • I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure. -- Helen Fielding
  • 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
  • I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music. -- Nick Lowe
  • 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
  • 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
  • The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple. -- Greg Gutfeld
  • Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly. -- Jane Austen
  • I never wanted to see another quiz show. -- Charles Van Doren
  • I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms. -- Kate Bush
  • I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host. -- Maury Povich
  • You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men. -- Jo Brand
  • I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning. -- Alex Trebek
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. -- Gary Wolf
  • I'm not a really big comic book person. I know the typical ones - 'Spider-Man' and 'Wonder Woman' and 'Storm' and that stuff. But don't quiz me, because I'm not good at things like that. -- Christian Serratos
  • All of our TaskRabbits go through a vetting process, which includes an online application, a video interview, a series of background checks, and then an online quiz that they have to pass before they're activated on the site. -- Leah Busque
  • 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
  • Basically, I like research because research is like to solve the quiz, you know. Always there is a problem, and I have to solve the problem. So I like those patterns. It's almost like research is sort of in a quiz. -- Shuji Nakamura
  • If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.' -- Rhys Ifans
  • India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy. -- Vikas Swarup
  • Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat. So as a 'Dating Game' bachelor, I didn't know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time. -- Seth Shostak
  • A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord's plan to give us challenges. -- Nicholas Sparks
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