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April 29, 2013 · 1:17 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #318

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published April 28, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “A word to the wise ain’t necessary. It’s the stupid ones who need the advice.”

A. David Crosby

B. Bing Crosby

C. Bill Cosby

2. “It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers’ Game.” 

A. Vin Scully

B. Barry Zito

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

3. “If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it.”

A. Jodie Foster

B. Laurence Olivier

C. George Burns

4. “What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.”

A. William Shakespeare

B. Isadora Duncan

C. John Belushi

5. “After a certain degree of prettiness, one pretty girl is as pretty as another.”

A. Richard Simmons

B. Nicole Kidman

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

6. “I am an enemy to long explanations; they deceive either the maker or the hearer, and generally both.”

A. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

B. Benjamin Harrison

C. Al Gore

7. “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

A. Lewis Carroll

B. Jean-Paul Sartre

C. Wayne LaPierre

8. “A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.”

A. David Brooks

B. Edmund Burke

C. Harpo Marx

9. “If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.”

A. Eckhart Tolle

B. Leo Durocher

C. Joan Rivers

10. “Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.”

A. “Bebe” Rebozo

B. Amelia Earhart

C. Will Rogers

 

 

Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-C , 4-B , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 8-B , 9-A , 10-C

 

Scoring:               10–QQQQ = Quote-Master   

(number correct)        8-9–QQQ = Scholar                       

                                   6-7–QQ = Literate

                                  4-5–Q = Semi-Literate

                                 0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce




BONUS QUOTE:

 “Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.” – Lewis Thomas

 (Thomas, 1913-1993, was an American physician, educator and author.)

 

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April 22, 2013 · 4:37 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #317

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published April 21, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”   

A. Audie Murphy

B. Walt Whitman

C. Winston Churchill

2. “Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.”

A. Albert Einstein

B. Bo Diddley

C. Arnold Schwarzenegger 

3. “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”

A. Louis C.K.

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Mary Shelley

4. “Why, look at me. I’ve worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”

A. Groucho Marx

B. Mother Teresa

C. Mark Cuban

5. “Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, /Greater are none beneath the Sun/ Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.”

A. Ogden Nash

B. Dizzy Dean

C. Rudyard Kipling

6. “I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”

A. Chuck Hagel

B. Willa Cather

C. Arlo Guthrie

7. “When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters — one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”  

A. John F. Kennedy

B. Mao Tse-tung

C. Julia Roberts

8. “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

A. Art Linkletter

B. Vincent van Gogh

C. Oscar Wilde

9.”‘Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard… ‘Tis the living up to it that’s difficult.”  

A. Lindsay Lohan

B. William Thackeray

C. Jimmy Swaggart

10. “Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!”

 A. Horace

B. Prince

C. Diogenes

 

 

Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-B , 4-A , 5-C , 6-B , 7-A , 8-C , 9-B , 10-A

 

Scoring:               10–QQQQ = Quote-Master   

(number correct)        8-9–QQQ = Scholar                       

                                   6-7–QQ = Literate

                                  4-5–Q = Semi-Literate

                                 0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce




BONUS QUOTE:

 “Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.” –Charles Caleb Colton

 (Colton, 1780-1832, was an English clergyman and author.)

 

 

 

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April 14, 2013 · 3:38 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #316

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published April 14, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

 

1. “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”

A. C. Everett Koop

B. Don Draper

C. Erma Bombeck

2. “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”

A. Rick Pitino

B. Albert Einstein

C. Sean Hannity

3. “Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?”

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Kate Middleton

C. Emily Dickinson

4. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

A. Wolfgang Puck

B. Bill Clinton

C. Harry S. Truman

5. “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

A. Mel Brooks

B. Warren G. Harding

C. Henry David Thoreau

6. “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”

A. Hugh Hefner

B. Jimmy Choo

C. Marilyn Monroe

7. “Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then–we elected them. ”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Lily Tomlin

C. Brian Williams

8. “We’ll always have Paris.”

A. Humphrey Bogart

B. Barron Hilton

C. Charles de Gaulle

9. “Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.”

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Samuel Jackson

C. Samuel Clemens

10. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”

A. Donald Trump

B. Margaret Thatcher

C. Barbara Walters

 

 

Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 3-A , 4-C , 5-C , 6-C , 7-B , 8-A , 9-A , 10-B

Scoring:               10–QQQQ = Quote-Master   

(number correct)        8-9–QQQ = Scholar                       

                                   6-7–QQ = Literate

                                  4-5–Q = Semi-Literate

                                 0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce




BONUS QUOTE:

 

“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.” – Irvin S. Cobb

 (Cobb, 1876-1944, was an American author, journalist, and humorist.)

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April 11, 2013 · 10:15 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #315

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published April 7, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

 

1. “I’m the big rubber clown doll you had as a kid, and every time you hit it, it bounces back. That’s me. The harder you hit me, the faster I come back up.”

A. Ronald McDonald

B. Bill Clinton

C. Tiger Woods

2. “Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand

to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.”

A. Carl Sandberg

B. Lou Gehrig

C. Albert Einstein

3. “Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”

A. Carl Sagan

B. Billy Graham

C. Bob Costas

4. “Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.”

A. H. G. Wells

B. Norman Bates

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 5. “My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

A. Piers Morgan

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Rita Rudner

6. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

A. John Belushi

B. Muhammad Ali

C. Mikhail Baryshnikov

7. “Freedom, well, that’s just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

A. The Kinks

B. The Eagles

C. The Doors

8. “Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.”

A. George Will

B. Paul Krugman

C. Vince Lombardi

 9. “What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

A. George Lopez

B. George W. Bush

C. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 

10. “Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope?  If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t.”

A. Samuel Alito

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Ricky Ricardo

 

Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-A , 4-C , 5-C , 6-B , 7-B , 8-A , 9-C , 10-B

 

Scoring:               10–QQQQ = Quote-Master   

(number correct)        8-9–QQQ = Scholar                       

                                   6-7–QQ = Literate

                                  4-5–Q = Semi-Literate

                                 0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce




BONUS QUOTE:

 “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” – Doug Larson

 (Larson, b. 1926, was a syndicated newspaper columnist based in Wisconsin.)

 

 

 

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