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September 28, 2014 · 11:07 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #392

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published September 28, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

 

A. Ellen DeGeneres

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Bashar al-Assad

 

2. “Fame is a fickle food/ Upon a shifting plate.”

 

A. John Edwards

B. Ryan Seacrest

C. Emily Dickinson

 

3. “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

 

A. H.L. Mencken

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Lindsey Graham

 

4. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

 

A. Richard Nixon

B. Thurston Howell III

C. Vince Lombardi

 

 5. “I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

 

A. Anthony Weiner

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Jillian Michaels

 

6. “When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”

 

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. George Lopez

C. George Zimmerman

 

7. “Music begins to atrophy when it gets too far from the dance…poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”

 

A. William Shakespeare

B. John Goodman

C. Ezra Pound

 

8. “Poems are made by fools like me,/ But only God can make a tree.”

 

A. Joyce Kilmer

B. Joyce Brothers

C. James Joyce

 

9. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

 

A. Mark Twain

B. Angelo Di Girolamo

C. Rand Paul

 

10. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

 

A. Timothy Leary

B. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

C. Nikita Khrushchev

 

 

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

“The college was not founded to give society what it wants.  Quite the contrary.”  — May Sarton

 (Sarton, 1912-1855, was an American poet, novelist and memoirist.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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September 21, 2014 · 1:24 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #391

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published September 21, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Our doubts are traitors,/  and make us lose the good we oft might win,/ by fearing to attempt.”

 

A. Leonard Cohen

B. Tom Hanks

C. William Shakespeare

 

2. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

 

A. Thomas Edison

B. Gabe Kotter

C. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

3. “The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”

 

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Lyndon Johnson

C. Dwayne Johnson

 

4. “It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

 

A. Hercules

B. Pharrell

C. Aesop

 

5. “A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

 

A. Rodney Dangerfield

B. H.L. Mencken

C. John Kerry

 

6. “The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.”

 

A. Marquis de Sade

B. Bill Mahr

C. Mamie Eisenhower

 

7. “Love and marriage, love and marriage/ Go together like a horse and carriage/ This I tell you brother/ You can’t have one without the other.”

 

A. Bob Marley

B. Sammy Cahn

C. Johnny Cash

 

8. “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

 

A. George Clooney

B. George Harrison

C. George Bernard Shaw

 

9. “It is the habit of mankind to mistake familiarity for accurate knowledge.”

 

A. Jim Rockford

B. John Stuart Mill

C. Hippocrates

 

10. “I stand for the square deal. But when I say that I am for a square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having the rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.”

 

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

 

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

 “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.” ― Charles Caleb Colton

 (Colton, 1780-1892, was an English cleric and writer.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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September 14, 2014 · 11:59 am

What’s Your QQ*? #390

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published September 14, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”

 

A. Matt Lauer

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Barack Obama

 

2. “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

 

A. Albert Einstein

B. Mary Tyler Moore

C. Martin Luther King

 

3. “Do you know what I love most about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt. And that’s just in the hot dogs.”

 

A. Yogi Berra

B. Oscar Mayer

C. David Letterman

 

4. “The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.”

 

A. John F. Kennedy

B. George W. Bush

C. Rachel Maddow

 

5. “Before publishers’ blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”

 

A. John Steinbeck

B. Mark Twain

C. Laurence J. Peter

 

6. “Life is the sum of all your choices.”

 

A. Albert Camus

B. Yoda

C. Meryl Streep

 

7. “I told my psychiatrist I got suicidal tendencies. He said from now on I have to pay in advance.”

 

A. Judge Judy

B. Rodney Dangerfield

C. Billy Graham

 

8. “What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!”

 

A. Anne Boleyn

B. Anne of Green Gables

C. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

9. “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

 

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Victor Hugo

C. Archie Bunker

 

10. “I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”

 

A. Nancy Pelosi

B. Joan Rivers

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

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

 “I passed a mirror recently and saw my mother there./ She seemed surprised to see me. I’d caught her unaware./ But there’s no mistake about it. The dewlaps and graying hair/ Are so familiar to me I’d know them anywhere.” — Genevieve Smith Whitford

 (Whitford, 1915-2011, was a poet and the mother of actor Bradley Whitford.)

 

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September 6, 2014 · 11:22 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #389

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published September 7, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.”

 

A. Margaret Thatcher

B. Jerry Brown

C. Mark Twain

 

2. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

 

A. Judy Garland

B. Frank Sinatra Jr.

C. Kim Jong-un

 

3. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

 

A. John Stuart Mill

B. Jon Stewart

C. Martha Stewart

 

4. “Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”

 

A. Oprah Winfrey

B. W.C. Fields

C. Jacques Cousteau

 

5. “The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.”

 

A. Snoop Dogg

B. Charles Koch

C. G.K. Chesterton

 

6. “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

 

A. Mark Zuckerberg

B. Socrates

C. Cliff Claven

 

7. “You can’t start a fire without a spark.”

 

A. Smokey Bear

B. Bruce Springsteen

C. Jim Morrison

 

8. “A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.”

 

A. Albert Einstein

B. John Wayne

C. Chris Christie

 

9. “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

 

A. Roseanne Barr

B. Ingrid Bergman

C. Gene Simmons

 

10. “Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.”

 

A. Dalai Lama

B. Salvador Dalí

C. Dolly Parton

 

 

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

 “A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”   ― D. Elton Trueblood

 (Trueblood, 1900-1994, was an American Quaker author, educator, and theologian.)

 

 

 

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