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December 19, 2014 · 10:07 am

What’s Your QQ*? #404

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

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

1. “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”

A. Bob Hope

B. Newt Gingrich

C. Yasser Arafat

2. “Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.”

A. Samuel Goldwyn

B. Samuel L. Jackson

C. Samuel Johnson

3. “Senescence begins/ And middle-age ends/ The day your descendants/ Outnumber your friends.”

A. Pablo Picasso

B. Ogden Nash

C. Rock Hudson

4. “I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Joseph Stalin

C. Plato

5. “If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”

A. George C. Marshall

B. J.D. Salinger

C. Jimmy Kimmel

6. “It’s a hell of a thing; killin’ a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”

A. Andy Griffith

B. Clint Eastwood

C. Rick Perry

7. “I love Paris in the spring time/ I love Paris in the fall/ I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles/ I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles.”

A. Maurice Chevalier

B. Dwight Eisenhower

C. Cole Porter

8. “I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.”

A. Dorothy Parker

B. John Bartlett

C. William Wordsworth

9. “So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.”

A. Isadora Duncan

B. W. C. Fields

C. Randy Newman

10. “How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”

A. Buddha

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Pat Boone

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

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”― Bess Streeter Aldrich

(Aldrich, 1881-1954, was one of Nebraska’s most widely read and enjoyed authors.)

What’s Your QQ*? #403

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

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

1. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”

A. Charlie Chaplin

B. Charlie Rose

C. Charlie Brown

2. “My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”

A. Aristotle

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Roy Rogers

3. “Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.”

A. H. L. Mencken

B. Fred Astaire

C. Boris Pasternak

4. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

A. Conan O’Brien

B. Hermione Granger

C. Helen Keller

5. “The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

A. Marcus Welby

B. Frank Lloyd Wright

C. Michelangelo

6. “Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.”

A. Mary Tyler Moore

B. Jackie Kennedy Onassis

C. Clare Boothe Luce

7. “The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

A. Tom Wolfe

B. Tom Hanks

C. Tom Arnold

8. “Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”

A. Stan Getz

B. Jesse Jackson

C. Matt Lauer

9. “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,

That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

A. “Goodnight Moon”

B. “The Honeymooners”

C. “Romeo and Juliet”

10. “It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”

A. David Rockefeller

B. Plutarch

C. Jeb Bush

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

“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.” ― John Erskine

(Erskine, 1879-1951, was an American educator, musician, and author.)

What’s Your QQ*? #402

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

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

1. “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

A. Henry Cabot Lodge

B. Anne Frank

C. Gwyneth Paltrow

2. “One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Andrew Lloyd Webber

C. Garfield

3. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

A. Jimmy Hoffa

B. Whoopi Goldberg

C. Stephen R. Covey

4. “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

A. Sam Malone

B. James Cagney

C. Humphrey Bogart

5. “Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.”

A. Henry Steele Commager

B. Dana Carvey

C. Will Rogers

6. “One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”

A. Elizabeth Taylor

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Benjamin Franklin

7. “I’m not overweight. I’m just nine inches too short.”

A. Wilt Chamberlain

B. Shelley Winters

C. Orson Welles

8. “I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”

A. Ludwig van Beethoven

B. Chuck Todd

C. Alexis de Tocqueville

9. “Language, — human language, — after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature, — sometimes not so adequate.”

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Mikhail Baryshnikov

C. William Shakespeare

10. “Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”

A. Ralph Malph

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Ralph Nader

Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-C , 4-C , 5-A , 6-C , 7-B , 8-C , 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 Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.” – Edward Fitzgerald

(Fitzgerald, 1809-1883, was an English poet best known for his translation of “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.”)

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