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March 15, 2015 · 12:06 pm

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.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 8, 2015 · 2:25 pm

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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March 1, 2015 · 12:27 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #414

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Interactive version published March 1, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle.)

 

1. “Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!”

 

A. Ralph Nader

B. Ralph Kramden

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

2. “Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’”

 

A. C.S. Lewis

B. J.K. Rowling

C. R.J. Reynolds

 

3. “There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.”

 

A. Henry VIII

B. Clint Eastwood

C. Lady Gaga

 

4. “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

 

A. Paul Simon

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Charles Dickens

 

5. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

 

A. Mickey Mantle

B. John Kerry

C. Oscar Wilde

 

6. “War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong;

and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”

 

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Chris Kyle

C. Genghis Khan

 

7. “Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich – simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

 

A. Henry Miller

B. Dennis Miller

C. Stephanie Miller

 

8. “Mass demand has been created almost entirely through

the development of advertising.”

 

A. Calvin Coolidge

B. Don Draper

C. Marco Polo

 

9. “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

 

A. Charles Manson

B. Voltaire

C. Alexander Hamilton

 

10. “There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.”

 

A. Stephen Hawking

B. Benedict Cumberbatch

C. Albert Einstein

 

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

 “As novices, we think we’re entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.”- Rose Wilder Lane

 (Lane, 1886-1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was a writer and libertarian theorist.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 23, 2015 · 3:51 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #413

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Interactive version published February 23, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle.)

 

1. “People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

 

A. Abigail Van Buren

B. Warren G. Harding

C. Arthur Ashe

 

2. “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”

 

A. Martin Short

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Sigmund Freud

 

3. “I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”

 

A. Crawford “Bud” Foy

B. Franklin P. Adams

C. Brandt Snedeker

 

4. “I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”

 

A. Jimmy Fallon

B. Jimmy Hoffa

C. Jimmy Carter

 

5. “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”

A. Bob Marley

B. Al Roker

C. John Maynard Keynes

 

6. “The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature–a type nowhere at present existing.”

 

A. Herbert Spencer

B. Gene Autry

C. Ronald Reagan

 

7. “The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

 

A. Charles Lindbergh

B. Norman Rockwell

C. Pablo Picasso

 

8. “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”

 

A. Ray Romano

B. Rachael Ray

C. Ray Bradbury

 

9. “You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.”

 

A. Allen Ginsberg

B. Truman Capote

C. William Shakespeare

 

10. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

 

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Marty McFly

C. Sandro Botticelli

 

 

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

 “Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!”

― Chief Seattle

 (Chief Seattle, 1780-1866, led several Puget Sound tribes. The city in Washington state was named after him.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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