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January 12, 2014 · 5:54 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #355

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published January 12, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”

A. W. Somerset Maugham

B. Queen Elizabeth II

C. Alexander Hamilton

 

2. “A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.”

A. Rufus T. Firefly

B. George W. Bush

C. Golda Meir

 

3. “How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!”

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Ellen DeGeneres

C. Chou En-lai

 

4. “The best thing about animals is they don’t talk much”

A. Dr. Dolittle

B. Thornton Wilder

C. Mufasa

 

5. “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,/ One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them/ In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”

A. L. Frank Baum

B. Lewis Carroll

C. J.R.R. Tolkien

 

6. “Familiarity breeds contempt.”

A. Aesop

B. Spartacus

C. Adele

 

7. “Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.”

A. Albert Einstein

B. Mark Twain

C. Forrest Gump

 

8. “I have found that failure is a far better teacher than success.”

A. Bernard Baruch

B. Lester Maddox

C. Matt Lauer

 

9. “Mad Dogs & Englishmen/ Go out in the midday sun.”

A. Noel Coward

B. Winston Churchill

C. Camilla Parker Bowles

 

10. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

A. Oscar the Grouch

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Oscar Robertson

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

“The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.” – James Thomson

 (Thomson, 1700-1748, was a Scottish poet and playwright.)

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January 6, 2014 · 9:35 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #354

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published January 5, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

 

1. “Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”

A. Jackson Pollock

B. Will Rogers

C. Mark Twain

 

2. “A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble.”

A. Adlai Stevenson

B. William Howard Taft

C. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

3. “Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”

A. Eleanor Roosevelt

B. The Kingston Trio

C. Julius Caesar

 

4. “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

A. George Orwell

B. John McCain

C. Karl Marx

 

5. “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”

A. Knute Rockne

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. W.C. Fields

 

6. “I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”

A. Debbie Allen

B. Woody Allen

C. Joan Allen

 

7. “There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified the concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.”

A. William Faulkner

B. Flip Wilson

C. Joseph Heller

 

8. “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.’?”

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. George Noory

C. Jay Leno

 

9. “I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.”

A. Herman Melville

B. Truman Capote

C. Christopher Columbus

 

10. “Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.”

A. Alfred Hitchcock

B. Alfred Lord Tennyson

C. Alfred E. Neuman

 

 

 

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

 

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”  – Aleister Crowley

 (Crowley, 1857-1947,was a controversial English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet and mountaineer.)

 

 

 

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January 5, 2014 · 10:05 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #353

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published December 29, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”

A. Billy Graham

B. Anaïs Nin

C. Neil Armstrong

 

2. “Don’t you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy, she’ll beat you if she’s able. You know, the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet.”

A. The Eagles

B. The Byrds

C. The Yardbirds

 

3. ”Being president is like running a cemetery: you’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening.’‘

A. Bill Clinton

B. Ronald Reagan

C. John Quincy Adams

 

4. “Damn with faint praise.”

A. John Steinbeck

B. Charles Lindbergh

C. Alexander Pope

 

5. “A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars.”

A. Stephen Hawking

B. Carl Sagan

C. Andy Griffith

 

6. “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

A. Voltaire

B. Betsy Ross

C. Felix Mendelssohn

 

7. “People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.”

A. Grover Cleveland

B. George Washington

C. Richard Nixon

 

8. “Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn’t know what to do with himself–he go to church, start a revolution–something. Today you’re unhappy? Can’t figure it out?–what is the salvation?–go shopping.”

A. Arthur Miller

B. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

C. Arthur C. Clarke

 

9. “I found that all through the years you never appreciate anything if you get it in a hurry.”

A. Alan Greenspan

B. Joseph Stalin

C. Ella Fitzgerald

 

10. “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.”

A. Ellen Goodman

B. Ellen DeGeneres

C. Ellen Page

 

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

 “A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.” ― Aberjhani

 (Aberjhani, b. 1957, is an American historian, journalist, novelist, poet and editor).

 


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January 5, 2014 · 9:35 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #352

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published December 22, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

 

1. “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.”

A. Pope Francis

B. W.C. Fields

C. Larry Wilde

 

2. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

A. Walt Disney

B. Walt Whitman

C. Walter White

 

3. “Heaven and hell is right now…. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.”

A. George Harrison

B.  Rachael Ray

C. Colin Kaepernick

 

4. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Jonas Salk

C. Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

5. “Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”

A. Archie Bunker

B. Mitch McConnell

C. Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

6. “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.”

A. Raul Castro

B. Abraham Maslow

C. William Tecumseh Sherman

 

7. “The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.”

A. Raymond Chandler

B. John Roberts

C. Barbra Streisand

 

8. “The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Gore Vidal

C. Marilyn Monroe

 

9. “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

A. D.B. Cooper

B. H.R. Haldeman

C. H.L. Mencken

 

10. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old, familiar carols play,/

And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/ Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

B. Charles Dickens

C. Martin Luther King

 

 

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

“‘Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain’t no flies on me,

But jest ‘fore Christmas I’m as good as I kin be!” -Eugene Field

(Field, 1850-1895, was an American humorist and writer of children’s poetry.)

 

 

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