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February 8, 2015 · 2:08 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #411

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Interactive version published February 8, 2015 at Montereyherald.com.)

 

1. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

 

A. LaVar Burton

B. Maya Angelou

C. Lindsey Graham

 

2. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

 

A. “Superman”

B. “Peter Pan”

C. “E.T.”

 

3. “The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can’t be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.”

 

A. Christopher Hitchens

B. Ted Kennedy

C. Nikola Tesla

 

4. “Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

 

A. Marshawn Lynch

B. Billy Graham

C. Hunter S. Thompson

 

5. “We are working together to establish a process that honors a terminally ill patient’s right to make informed decisions about dying, including an individual’s option to reduce suffering by taking aid-in-dying medication.”

 

A. Sarah Palin

B. Sen. Bill Monning

C. Arnold Swarzenegger

 

6. “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

 

A. Pete Rose

B. Henry Kissinger

C. Mark Twain

 

7. “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”

 

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Gerald Ford

C. Pete Carroll

 

8. “When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

 

A. Grandma Moses

B. Pablo Picasso

C. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 

9. “In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.”

 

A. Neil deGrasse Tyson

B. Clint Eastwood

C. Jim Vanderzwaan

 

10. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

 

A. Dr. Spock

B. Dr. Seuss

C. Dr. Oz

 

 

 

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

“You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.” – Emery Allen

 (Allen wrote a book of poetry titled “Become.”)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 1, 2015 · 10:23 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #410

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Interactive version published February 1, 2015 at Montereyherald.com.)

 

1. “Life is a long lesson in humility.”

 

A. Donald Trump

B. Marco Polo

C. James M. Barrie

 

2. “Laurel and Hardy, that’s John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot.”

 

A. John Legend

B. John Lennon

C. John Travolta

 

3. “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

 

A. Jack Kerouac

B. Chevy Chase

C. Millard Fillmore

 

4. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

 

A. Roald Dahl

B. Joseph Stalin

C. Edgar Allan Poe

 

5. “I love mankind … it’s people I can’t stand!!”

 

A. Garfield

B. Charles Schulz

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

6. “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.”

 

A. J. Krishnamurti

B. O. Henry

C. R. Kelly

 

7. “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

 

A. Bill Belichick

B. Ozzy Osbourne

C. Albert Camus

 

8. “Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven’t been in a car since 1965.”

 

A. Jerry Seinfeld

B. Mark Twain

C. Mario Andretti

 

9. “Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.”

 

A. Bill Clinton

B. Pete Carroll

C. H. L. Mencken

 

10. “That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.”

A. Steve Jobs

B. John Madden

C. O.J. Simpson

 

 

 

 

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

 “I’d run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl” – Washington Redskins guard Russ Grimm (Super Bowl XVIII)

 “I’d run over Russ Grimm’s mother to win the Super Bowl, too” – L. A. Raiders linebacker Matt Millen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 17, 2015 · 5:34 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #408

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published January 18, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

 

A. Angela Merkel

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Jerry Garcia

 

2. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

 

A. Confucius

B. Jay-Z

C. Nostradamus

 

3. “I have not yet begun to fight!”

 

A. John Paul Jones

B. Rocky Marciano

C. Winston Churchill

 

4. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That’s what makes you a champion.”

 

A. Marie Osmond

B. Babe Ruth

C. Muhammad Ali

 

5. “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

 

A. J. Edgar Hoover

B. Colin Powell

C. Mahatma Gandhi

 

6. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.”

 

A. Stephen R. Covey

B. Marshall McLuhan

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

7. “If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”

 

A. Dennis the Menace

B. Calvin & Hobbes

C. Peanuts

 

8. “It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth on a higher standard of living than any have ever known.  It no longer has to be you or me.  Selfishness is unnecessary.  War is obsolete.  It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.”

 

A. R. Buckminster Fuller

B. John McCain

C. Jerry Lee Lewis

 

9. “Sometimes it seems like I’ve known so many men, the FBI ought to come to me to compare fingerprints.”

 

A. Doris Day

B. Carol Burnett

C. Mae West

 

10. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

 

A. Andrew Carnegie

B. Martin Luther King Jr.

C. Mother Teresa

 

 

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

 “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” – Richard P. Feynman

 (Feynman, 1918-1988, was an American theoretical physicist.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 11, 2015 · 5:51 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #407

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published January 11, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

 

A. Victor Hugo

B. Mike Tyson

C. Michael Jackson

 

2. “Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.”

 

A. Adam Carolla

B. Adam Smith

C. Eve Arden

 

3. “Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”

 

A. Walter Lippmann

B. George W. Bush

C. Bobby Fischer

 

4. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”

 

A. W. C. Fields

B. Rutherford B. Hayes

C. Richard M. Nixon

 

5. “If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”

 

A. Hillary Clinton

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

6. “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

 

A. Francisco  Franco

B. Charles Dickens

C. Benjamin Franklin

 

7. “The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”

 

A. Erich Fromm

B. Rod Serling

C. Ellen DeGeneres

 

8. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

 

A. Louis Armstrong

B. Winston Churchill

C. Laurence Olivier

 

9. “No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”

 

A. Bertrand Russell

B. Ed Sullivan

C. Larry King

 

10. “What terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American tanks or bombs or bullets, it’s a girl with a book.”

 

A. Karl Marx

B. Malala Yousafzai

C. Chuck Schumer

 

 

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

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie ten Boom

 (Ten Boom, 1892-1983, a Dutch Christian, was imprisoned during WWII for helping hundreds of Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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