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April 3, 2015 · 8:27 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #419

(Published April 3, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version) 

1. “What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?”

A. Edward Norton

B. Edward Snowden

C. Edward Albee

2. “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

A. James Thurber

B. Sarah Silverman

C. Thomas Edison

3. “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

A. John Lennon

B. John Muir

C. John Travolta

4. “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

A. Will Farrell

B. Susan B. Anthony

C. Nikita Khrushchev

5. “Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;/ Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;/ Thy fate is the common fate of all,/ Into each life some rain must fall,/ Some days must be dark and dreary.”

A. Billy Joel

B. Shel Silverstein

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6. “The town was so dull that when the tide went out it refused to come back.”

A. Fred Allen

B. Jason Burnett

C. Bill Kampe

7. “Democracy don’t rule the world/ You’d better get that in your head/ This world is ruled by violence/ But I guess that’s better left unsaid.”

A. Bob Dylan

B. Donald Rumsfeld

C. Robert Frost

8. “When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.”

A. Frédéric Chopin

B. Orson Welles

C. James Naismith

9. “The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.”

A. Richard Nixon

B. Martina Navratilova

C. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

10. “That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

A. George Foreman

B. George Washington

C. George Carlin

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

“No social system in any country will bring us happiness, health, and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.”

– Clement R. Attlee, 1883-1967, was a Labour Party leader and British prime minister from 1945-1951.

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.)

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