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March 28, 2015 · 11:15 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #418

(Published March 27, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version) 

1. “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.”

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Tom Bodett

C. Charles Kuralt

2. “Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of striving to fulfill wishes of the material kind.”

A. Sam Walton

B. Albert Einstein

C. Ted Cruz

3. “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

A. Henry Kissinger

B. Marilyn Monroe

C. Dr. Ruth Westheimer

4. “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

A. Jimmy Stewart

B. Jimmy Fallon

C. Jimi Hendrix

5. “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Nat King Cole

C. Oscar Wilde

6. “In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”

A. Mahatma Gandhi

B. Joseph Goebbels

C. Julie Andrews

7. “Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.”

A. Grover Cleveland

B. Hillary Clinton

C. Susan B. Anthony

8. “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into.”

A. Oliver North

B. Oliver Hardy

C. Oliver Twist

9. “A photograph is not an accident—it is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.”

A. Ansel Adams

B. René Descartes

C. Mathew Brady

10. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

A. Ted Cruz

B. Leonardo da Vinci

C. Julia Child

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

“We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” ― Robert Wilensky

(Wilensky, 1951-2013, was a computer science professor at UC Berkeley.)

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March 22, 2015 · 11:24 am

What’s Your QQ*? #417

(Published March 22, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version) 

1. “The trick in life isn’t getting what you want, my dear, it’s wanting it after you get it.”

A. Katharine Hepburn

B. Fyodor Dostoevsky

C. Eldridge Cleaver

2. “If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.”

A. Irving Berlin

B. John Kerry

C. Dorothy Parker

3. “Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Albert Einstein

C. Jennifer Lopez

4. “The thought of death has now become a part of my life. I read the obituaries every day just for the satisfaction of not seeing my name there.”

A. Neil Simon

B. Neil deGrasse Tyson

C. Neil Patrick Harris

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

A. Rachael Ray

B. Emily Dickinson

C. Donald Trump

6. “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”

A. Yogi Berra

B. Whoopi Goldberg

C. Henry Ward Beecher

7. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

A. Charlie Chaplin

B. Ringo Starr

C. Anwar al-Sadat

8. “Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?”

A. Steven Spielberg

B. Steven Wright

C. Steven Seagal

9. “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

A. Marcel Marceau

B. Salvador Dali

C. Mark Twain

10. “Every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn’t.”

A. Dan Savage

B. Larry King

C. Al Jolson

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

“Mankind is safer when men seek pleasure than when they seek the power and the glory.”

―Geoffrey Gorer

(Gorer, 1905-1985, was an English anthropologist and author.)

What’s Your QQ*? #416

(Published March 15, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version) 

1. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

A. Richard Nixon

B. Nelson Mandela

C. David Schwimmer

2. “What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Pope John Paul II

C. Lon Cheney

3. “I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

A. George Washington

B. The Chicken

C. Stephen Hawking

4. “Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”

A. Robert De Niro

B. Robert H. Schuller

C. Robert Menendez

5. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

A. Donald Rumsfeld

B. Albert Einstein

C. Katy Perry

6. “Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.”

A. Masters and Johnson

B. Nancy Reagan

C. Aldous Huxley

7. “Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.”

A. “Calvin & Hobbes”

B. “Peanuts”

C. “Baby Blues”

8. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

A. Adolf Hitler

B. George Orwell

C. Danny DeVito

9. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

A. Frank Underwood

B. Hillary Clinton

C. Friedrich Nietzsche

10. “Politics has gotten so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to get beat with.”

A. Will Rogers

B. Kim Jong-un

C. The Koch Brothers

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

“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.” – Robert Ingersoll

(Ingersoll, 1833-1899, nicknamed “The Great Agnostic,” was an American politician and orator.)

What’s Your QQ*? #415

(Published March 8, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version)

1. “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”

A. Plato

B. Sarah Palin

C. Auguste Rodin

2. “The world itself is but a large prison,out of which some are daily led to execution.”

A. Sir Edmund Hillary

B. Sir Paul McCartney

C. Sir Walter Raleigh

3. “A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”

A. Carl Sandburg

B. Britney Spears

C. John Dillinger

4. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

A. L. Frank Baum

B. J.R.R. Tolkien

C. J.D. Salinger

5. “Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”

A. Sylvia Browne

B. Sylvia Plath

C. Sylvia Panetta

6. “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”

A. Ludwig van Beethoven

B. Jack Nicholson

C. Oliver Wendell Holmes

7. “A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.”

A. Lyndon B. Johnson

B. Al Gore

C. Millard Fillmore

8. “Lives of great men all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime,/

And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time.”

A. John Lennon

B. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

C. John Steinbeck

9. “I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.”

A. Steven Wright

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Mr. Magoo

10. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”

A. Neil Patrick Harris

B. Neil Diamond

C. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

“We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.” -Simon Newcomb (1888)

(Newcomb, 1835-1909, was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician, and co-founder of the American Astronomical Society.)

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