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March 18, 2013 · 9:19 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #312

*Quotation Quotient

(Published March 17, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald)

1. “Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

A. William Henry Harrison

B. William Shatner

C. William Faulkner

2. “Double, double toil and trouble;/ Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”

A. J.K. Rowling

B. William Shakespeare

C. Barney Frank

3. “My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

A. A.A. Milne

B. B.B. King

C. C.C. Ryder

4. “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

A. Dwight D. Eisenhower

B. Donald Rumsfeld

C. Hawkeye Pierce

5. “I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o’er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils.”

A. William Wordsworth

B. Ogden Nash

C. Kobe Bryant

6. “Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.”

A. Nate Silver

B. Jules Verne

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.”

A. Clark Kent

B. Bertrand Russell

C. Jennifer Aniston

8. “Be always ashamed to catch yourself idle.”

A. Redd Foxx

B. Eric Idle

C. Benjamin Franklin

9. “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”

A. Winston Churchill

B. Alan Young

C. Eddie Arcaro

10. “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”

A. Albert Einstein

B. Mark Twain

C. Oprah Winfrey

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

“When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.” – Charles Dana

(Dana, 1819-1897, was an American journalist, editor and publisher.)

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March 17, 2013 · 8:58 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #311

*Quotation Quotient

(Published March 10, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald)

1. “No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.”

A. Henry Kissinger

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Rick Warren

2. “If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don’t, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.”

A. John Hancock

B. Rudolf Nureyev

C. Thomas Szasz

3. “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

A. Carl Jung

B. Carl Kasell

C. Carl Lewis

4. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

A. Keith Olbermann

B. Roger Ailes

C. Abraham Lincoln

5. “Here I sit/ With my shoes mismated./ Lawdy-mercy!/ I’s frustrated!”

A. Langston Hughes

B. Antonin Scalia

C. Beatrix Potter

6. “As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”

A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

B. Clarence Darrow

C. Alan Haffa

7. “Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.”

A. Wayne Dyer

B. Mark Twain

C. Hugo Chavez

8. “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.”

A. Lance Armstrong

B. Bob Marley

C. Howard Stern

9. “I write lustily and humorously. It isn’t calculated; it’s the way I think. I’ve invented a writing style that expresses who I am.”

A. Erica Jong

B. John Steinbeck

C. Walt Disney

10. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.”

A. Mark Sanford

B. Calvin Coolidge

C. Khalil Gibran

Answers: 1-B, 2-C , 3-A , 4-C , 5-A , 6-B , 7-A , 8-B , 9-A , 10-C