Piecemeal Quotes #2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: failure

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
by Dan Quayle

Dan Quayle was born in 1947 and was Vice President of the United States during 1988-1992. He was noted for some of his verbal gaffes, for example: "It's time," he enthused one day, "for the human race to enter the solar system!" when commenting on supporting NASA's plans for a manned mission to Mars.

Answer: intimate

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
by Orson Welles

George Orson Welles was an American who was born in 1915 and died in 1985. He was a talented actor, director, producer and writer. One of the movies that he acted in was "The Third Man" (1949). Although he is regarded as gifted in these fields, he apparently had another talent - eating hotdogs. He ate 18 in one session in Los Angeles. In 1977, he declined approaches that were made to him to be the voice of Darth Vader ("Star Wars" 1977).

Answer: jogging

"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
Martin Mull

Martin Mull was born in 1943 in Chicago but was raised in Ohio. After some time as a successful stand-up comedian, he gained a role on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (1976) and he was Leon Carp in "Roseanne" (during the years of 1991-1997). Martin Mull was also once a songwriter signed under Warner Brothers Records. He had only one hit with a song entitled "A Girl Named Johnny Cash" (1970) - which came out after Johnny Cash's hit of "A Boy Named Sue" (1969).

Answer: annoy

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
by Rita Rudner

Rita Rudner is an American comedian (who displays her comic talents in writing for televsion) and an actor who was born in 1956. Another quote from her is: "My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."

Answer: strange

"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
Plato

Plato (circa 428-348 BC) was a Greek philosopher who studied under Socrates (another noted Greek philosopher).

Answer: existed

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
by Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1818-1893) was a German philosopher, revolutionary, economist and author of "The Communist Manifesto" (1848) and "Das Kapital" (1867-1894).

Though he has made a huge impact upon many aspects of history which still influences today's world, he neglected both himself and his family for his pursuits in writing, etc. He never gained much income and had to rely upon such people as Frederich Engels to support him and his family. Frederich Engels, another advocate of Communistic theories, received the money to fund Marx and himself from his wealthy family, who were involved in textile manufacturing.

Answer: grandmother

"My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."
by Henny Youngman

Henry Youngman, aka Henny and 'King of the One Liners', was born in 1906 and died in 1998. He was an American comedian. He originated the joke "Take my wife, please" in 1940. In recalling how this line came into being, he remarked, "It was a half-hour until the show started, my wife was backstage. I asked one of the ushers, 'Take my wife, please.' I meant to get a seat, but that was the beginning."

Answer: awakened

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
by Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan was born in 1911 and was an actor who turned to politics. He became the 40th president (1981-1989) of the United States. There was an assassination attempt on his life in 1981 and when he was being taken to the operating room, it was reported that Ronald Reagan playfully pleaded to the surgeons, "Please assure me that you are all Republicans!"

Answer: intolerable

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1845-1900) was an Irish writer but is more notorious for his 'association' with Lord Douglas of Queensbury that lead to his imprisonment after a trial for sodomy. Upon release, he lived in France using an assumed name. His works includes "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895) and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1891). Wilde apparently was a person who was exact, for it is reported that he spent a whole day pondering upon a 'questionable' comma in a poem that he had finished writing.

Answer: happens

"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
by Woody Allen

Woody Allen was born Allan Steward Konigsberg in 1935 in America. He is a comedian, and acts in and directs his own movies. Some of these are: "Manhattan Murder" (1993), "The Purple Rose of Cairo" ((1985) and "Annie Hall" (1977) - which have all received numerous awards.

Woody Allen plays the clarinet and has his own jazz band - which plays weekly. He in fact did not show up at an Oscar award night (he won an award that year) because it clashed with his night that he plays with his band.

References, information and quotes came from the following sources:
http://www.anecdotage.com
http://www.quotationspage.com
and "The Internet Movie Database"