Quiz: Two Twuths and a Lie

Here’s your chance to test your knowledge of the Boyd girls’ wacky sayings.

p{color:gray}. Photo: Unbelievably, this photo was taken just one year ago this week, on April 23, 2011. How the girls have grown! (Click to enlarge.)

We played this game at Lucy and Rosie’s “together birthday party”:/news/2012/two-girls-one-party/ and described it like this:

bq. Jon looked through his tweets from the past year, found the favorite quotes he had tweeted on behalf of the girls, and paired them up. To each pair, he has added a _fictional quote_ that the girls did _not_ actually say. You have to read the sets of three quotations and identify the fabricated one. Would you like to play? You’re in luck!

Can you beat Grandpa’s high score of ten correct answers? Post your score below by May 1. You’ll find the answer key linked at the end. Honor system, please! The lucky winner will receive (wait for it) the chance to light the candles on their own birthday cake! (Plus a Lucy-and-Rosie original piece of artwork.) Happy playing!

h3. #1

a. “I love to lie down on the floor at church.”
b. “You always can’t have too many friends invited to your party!”
c. “Papa, you are the kind of person who eats food off the floor!”

h3. #2

a. “Dad, are you a little crazy about princesses? Just a little bit?”
b. “My favorite food is sugar.”
c. The five-year-old: “Sometimes you get your wish.” The three-year-old: “Sometimes you don’t.”

h3. #3

a. “I wish the Christmas tree were alive so I could dance with it!”
b. “Mama, I really want a pet. Can we get a unicorn?”
c. The three-year-old: “Lu, you are the sweetest pie in the whole world!”

h3. #4

a. The papa: “We say ‘thanks’ for the good things.” The three-year-old: “And ‘no thanks’ for the bad things!”
b. “Dad, when it’s the weekend, I don’t KNOW that it’s the weekend. But you can keep track of that.”
c. “Zing-a-ling-a-ling! It’s birthday party time!”

h3. #5

a. “Now I know my ABCs. Next time won’t you clink with me?”
b. The papa: “You girls like to sing, don’t you! You’re good singers.” The five-year-old, ruefully: “But we’re not so famous.”
c. The papa: “Girls, when you’re acting in the theater, the most important thing is…” The three-year-old, interrupting: “…to hide your nipples!”

h3. #6

a. “Dad, you’re handsomer than Darth Vader.”
b. “Dad, when you grow up, do you want to be a Jedi Knight?”
c. “I like Star Wars. I wish I could ride on Luke’s shoulders.”

h3. #7

a. The five-year-old: “Don’t tickle me!” The three-year-old: “OK.” “Do you promise?” “Yes.” “Do you know what ‘promise’ means?” “No.”
b. “It’s always nice to have leftover cookies, because then you can share them with your friends!”
c. “It’s always nice to have leftover cookies, because then you get more cookies.”

h3. #8

a. “Maybe tomorrow we should have a big dance party! Maybe we should dance all night and day!”
b. “I wish balloons rained from the ceiling every time we talked about balloons.”
c. The papa: “Please put your shoes on, girls.” The four-year-old: “No shoes today! We’re pretending to be birds of the air!”

h3. #9

a. “Dad, in the really old days, did people not have music and instead they talked?”
b. “You’re stuck in a moment, and you can’t get out of it! Dad, I sang a U2 song!”
c. “I need a micro-mo-phone.”

h3. #10

a. “This carrot smells like a rabbit’s foot.”
b. “This is my favorite part of life: when it’s raining really hard outside and we can be warm and cozy inside.”
c. “This smells just like Ariel. It smells like fresh, Disney plastic!”

h3. #11

a. “Mama, the sun looks like it’s growing. Do you think it is preg-a-nant?”
b. “What does it feel like to be the rain?”
c. “Stars sing to me every nighttime.”

h3. #12

a. “Cranberry pancakes? What is this, Christmas?”
b. “But Dad! What about the fifth and the sixth and the seventh and the eighth and the ninth and the TENTH of July?!”
c. “I don’t think the Easter Bunny is very good at hiding eggs. We find ’em pretty quick!”

h3. #13

a. “What’s your favorite part of the Oreo?” The five-year-old: “My favorite part is the WHOLE THING!”
b. “I have an empty space in my tummy that’s as big as a Rice Crispy treat!”
c. “Dessert is a necessity at every meal.”

h3. #14

a. The papa: “Do you need to pee, honey?” The three-year-old: “No, I was just doing a curtesy.”
b. The papa: “Are you an elegant lady?” The three-year-old: “(snort)!”
c. “My pants are too squeezy today!”

h3. #15

a. The papa: “You use your feet and both hands when you drive.” The five-year-old: “And your head! Your head is the most importantest part of all!”
b. “This doll? This is not my kind of doll.”
c. “Dad, we’re growing EVERY DAY!”

h3. #16

a. “Papa is better than NOTHING!”
b. “Papa, you are such a smooooooth driver.”
c. “Dad, you deserve a sticker, because you’re so good at fixing stuff and doing what Mama and I say.”

h3. #17

a. “Ghosts don’t really wear bow ties.”
b. “Mom, pumpkins don’t poop.”
c. “I love sucking on my toes. They’re just like little candy bars.”

h3. #18

a. “Jesus is kind. He doesn’t have claws.”
b. “Rosanna! Rosanna! Rosanna in the highest!”
c. “The Lord is risen — how cute!”

h3. #19

a. “I don’t have to count those, because I can see it’s two times three. That’s six. It’s math, Daddy!”
b. “Canola oil sounds like something you need to put in your car.”
c. “Daddy, someday I want to play air bass.”

h3. #20

a. “Dad, you have to whisper ‘ornithology’ very quietly so you don’t scare the birds!”
b. “I can’t find a suitable outfit!”
c. “Is this bath water potable?”

h3. Answer key

Grade your own on the honor system. View the protected “answer key here”:/news/2012/two-twuths-and-a-lie-answer-key using the password “twuth” (yes, with a _w_).