Tuesday, September 6, 2016

QUESTIONABLE QUOTATIONS
GAMES/World of Puzzles
August, 2016
Tristan Miller

We all love to quote our favorite historical figures, works of literature, and films - though certain lines always always seem to get mis-quoted. Can you fill in the words or phrases that accurately complete the fourteen famous quotations below?

1. All that ________ is not gold. (Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice)

2. ________, I am your father. (Darth Vader - The Empire Strikes Back)

3.Water, water everywhere, ________ drop to drink (Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

4. For ________is the root of all evil. (1 Timothy 6:10 - King James Bible)

5. If you build it, ________ will come. (Field of Dreams)

6. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, ________. (Shakespeare - Hamlet)

7. Okay, Houston, _______  (James Lovell - NASA Mission Control)

8. Well, here's another ________ mess you've gotten me into! (Oliver Hardy - in many films)

9. Music has charms to soothe a savage ________. (Congreve - The Mourning Bride)

10. "________ into my parlor," said the Spider to the Fly. (Howitt - The Spider and the Fly)

11. ________ on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?  (Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

12. Toto, ________in Kansas any more. (Wizard of Oz)

13. Why don't you come up and see ________? (Mae West - She Done Him Wrong)

14. Play it, ________ . (Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca)

Answers:

1. glisters
2. No
3. nor any
4. the love of money
5. he
6. Horatio
7. we've had a problem here
8. nice
9. breast
10. Will you walk
11. Magic mirror
12. I've a feeling we're not
13. me 
14. Sam. Play it. "As Time Goes By."

No comments:

Post a Comment