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What’s Your QQ*? #409
*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Published January 25, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)
1. “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
A. Douglas Adams
B. John Boehner
C. Leonard Hofstadter
2. “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
A. Eddie Rickenbacker
B. Bob Hope
C. George Bernard Shaw
3. “The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.”
A. Wolfgang Puck
B. Mark Twain
C. John F. Kennedy
4. “Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.”
A. Fran Lebowitz
B. Dr. Benjamin Spock
C. Sir Isaac Newton
5. “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
A. Tom Hanks
B. Voltaire
C. Corporal Klinger
6. “The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.”
A. Whitney Young
B. Neil Diamond
C. Cleopatra
7. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!”
A. Boris Pasternak
B. Lewis Carroll
C. Dr. Seuss
8. “It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer; it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations.”
A. Bob Dole
B. Louis Pasteur
C. Rutherford B. Hayes
9. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
A. J. K. Rowling
B. P. J. O’Rourke
C. G. K. Chesterton
10. “Formula for success – rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
A. J. Paul Getty
B. Warren Buffett
C. George W. Bush
Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-B , 4-A , 5-B , 6-A , 7-C , 8-C , 9-C , 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:
“February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.” – Shirley Jackson
(Jackson, 1916-1965, was known for her stories and novels of the supernatural.)
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What’s Your QQ*? #408
*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Published January 18, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)
1. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
A. Angela Merkel
B. Eleanor Roosevelt
C. Jerry Garcia
2. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
A. Confucius
B. Jay-Z
C. Nostradamus
3. “I have not yet begun to fight!”
A. John Paul Jones
B. Rocky Marciano
C. Winston Churchill
4. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That’s what makes you a champion.”
A. Marie Osmond
B. Babe Ruth
C. Muhammad Ali
5. “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
A. J. Edgar Hoover
B. Colin Powell
C. Mahatma Gandhi
6. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.”
A. Stephen R. Covey
B. Marshall McLuhan
C. Napoleon Bonaparte
7. “If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”
A. Dennis the Menace
B. Calvin & Hobbes
C. Peanuts
8. “It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth on a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.”
A. R. Buckminster Fuller
B. John McCain
C. Jerry Lee Lewis
9. “Sometimes it seems like I’ve known so many men, the FBI ought to come to me to compare fingerprints.”
A. Doris Day
B. Carol Burnett
C. Mae West
10. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
A. Andrew Carnegie
B. Martin Luther King Jr.
C. Mother Teresa
Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-A , 4-C , 5-C , 6-A , 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:
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” – Richard P. Feynman
(Feynman, 1918-1988, was an American theoretical physicist.)
What’s Your QQ*? #407
*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Published January 11, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)
1. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
A. Victor Hugo
B. Mike Tyson
C. Michael Jackson
2. “Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.”
A. Adam Carolla
B. Adam Smith
C. Eve Arden
3. “Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”
A. Walter Lippmann
B. George W. Bush
C. Bobby Fischer
4. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”
A. W. C. Fields
B. Rutherford B. Hayes
C. Richard M. Nixon
5. “If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”
A. Hillary Clinton
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
A. Francisco Franco
B. Charles Dickens
C. Benjamin Franklin
7. “The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”
A. Erich Fromm
B. Rod Serling
C. Ellen DeGeneres
8. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
A. Louis Armstrong
B. Winston Churchill
C. Laurence Olivier
9. “No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”
A. Bertrand Russell
B. Ed Sullivan
C. Larry King
10. “What terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American tanks or bombs or bullets, it’s a girl with a book.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Malala Yousafzai
C. Chuck Schumer
Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-A , 4-C , 5-B , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 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:
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie ten Boom
(Ten Boom, 1892-1983, a Dutch Christian, was imprisoned during WWII for helping hundreds of Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust.)
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