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October 5, 2014 · 3:22 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #393

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published October 5, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”

 

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. John-Boy Walton

C. Buddy Hackett

 

2. “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

 

A. Eric Hoffer

B. Mel Brooks

C. Wes Craven

 

3. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

 

A. Dick Cheney

B. Julie Andrews

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

4. “I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.”

 

A. George Will

B. Jules Feiffer

C. John D. Rockefeller

 

5. “Nothing is more revealing than movement.”

 

A. Martha Stewart

B. Martha Graham

C. Martha Washington

 

6. “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

 

A. Annie Oakley

B. Sarah Palin

C. George Santayana

 

7. “There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”

 

A. Billy Ray Cyrus

B. Agatha Christie

C. Amelia Earhart

 

8. “An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”

 

A. Walter Winchell

B. Dorothy Gale

C. Rodney Dangerfield

 

9. “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.”

 

A. Barbara Tuchman

B. Barbara Boxer

C. Barbra Streisand

 

10. “If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.”

 

A. Conan O’Brien

B. Cujo

C. Adlai Stevenson

 

 

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

 “O SUNS and skies and clouds of June/ And flowers of June together,/ Ye cannot rival for one hour/ October’s bright blue weather.”  –Helen Hunt Jackson

 (Jackson, 1830-1885, an American author and poet, wrote the novel “Ramona.”)

 

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February 2, 2014 · 9:47 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #358

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published February 2, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “We’re going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.”

A. Pete Carroll

B. Joe Namath

C. Peyton Manning

 

2. “What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”

A. Charles Manson

B. Charles Barkley

C. Charles Darwin

 

3. “The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefiting the poor. But what happens instead is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger… nothing ever comes out for the poor.”

A. Huey Long

B. Bernie Sanders

C. Pope Francis

 

4. “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”

A. Dennis Rodman

B. The Dalai Lama

C. Route 66

 

5. “Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ”

A. George Orwell

B. Steve Jobs

C. Albus Dumbledore

 

6. “I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Groucho Marx

C. Charlie Brown

 

7. “I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.”

A. Neil Armstrong

B. Jane Fonda

C. Barry Goldwater

 

8. “Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”

A. Pete Rose

B. Pete Townshend

C. Pete Seeger

 

9. “I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.”

A. Jim Vanderzwaan

B. John Steinbeck

C. Roald Amundsen

 

10. “When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”

A. Muhammad Ali

B. William “The Refrigerator” Perry

C. Dick Butkus

 

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

 “When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ” –  George Raveling

 (Raveling, b. 1937, coached college basketball at Washington State, Iowa and USC.)

 

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November 10, 2013 · 8:21 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #346

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published November 10, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “‘You are old, father William,’ the young man said,/  ‘And your hair has become very white;/ And yet you incessantly stand on your head/  Do you think, at your age, it is right?'”

A. William the Conqueror  

B. Lewis Carroll

C. Father Junipero Serra

2. “Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.”

A. Henry Ward Beecher

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Frank Sinatra

3. “Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”

A. R. Kelly

B. C. Everett Koop

C. O. Henry

4. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

A. Friedrich Nietzsche

B. Mary Shelley

C. Lon Chaney

5. “‘Tis an old maxim in the schools,/ That flattery’s the food of fools;/

Yet now and then your men of wit/ Will condescend to take a bit.”

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Will Rogers

C. Mae West

6. “Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.” 

A. Ted Cruz

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Steve Carell

7. “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

A. Dr. Jekyll

B. Emmett Kelly

C. Abraham Lincoln

8. “Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ”

A. Emily Dickinson

B. John Kenneth Galbraith

C. Michael Bloomberg

9. “We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers – we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.” 

A. Erich Maria Remarque

B. Erich Fromm

C. Eric Clapton

10. “A fool learns from his experience. A wise person learns from the experience of others.” 

A. Walter White

B. Vladimir Lenin

C. Otto von Bismarck

Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-C , 4-A , 5-A , 6-B , 7-C , 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 don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but by then we realize it and admit it.” – Jules Renard

 (Renard, 1864-1910, was a French author.)

 

 

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August 19, 2013 · 4:51 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #334

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published August 18, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

 1. “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”

A. Mahatma Gandhi

B. Jimmy Swaggart

C. Mohamed Morsi

2. “One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.”

A. Margaret Thatcher

B. Margaret Sanger

C. Margaret Mead

3. “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”

A. Bradley Manning

B. George Orwell

C. Don Ho

4. “Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.”

A. Woody Allen

B. Harper Lee

C. William Shakespeare

5. “God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”

A. C.S. Lewis

B. Barry Goldwater

C. Hugh Hefner

6. “All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

A. Leonard Hofstadter

B. Aristotle

C. George W. Bush

7. “He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.”

A. Madonna

B. Eminem

C. Confucius

8. “Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.”

A. Friedrich Nietzsche

B. Bob Hope

C. Pat Boone

9. “There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.”

A. Ariel Castro

B. Malcolm Forbes

C. Louis Pasteur

10. “A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. Laws change, people die, the land remains.”

A. Martin Scorsese

B. Rick Perry

C. Abraham Lincoln

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

“The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.”  — Santiago Ramón y Cajal

(Ramón y Cajal, 1852-1934, was a Nobel Prize-winning Spanish physician and scientist.)

 

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