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November 8, 2014 · 2:27 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #398

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published November 9, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones”

 

A. Renée Zellweger

B. John Lennon

C. Christopher Columbus

 

2. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

 

A. Thurgood Marshall

B. Stephen Colbert

C. Aristotle

 

3. “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”

 

A. Count Basie

B. Arthur Fonzarelli

C. Albert Einstein

 

4. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

 

A. Plato

B. Marcel Marceau

C. Edmund Hillary

 

5. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”  

 

A. Betsy Ross

B. Winston Churchill

C. Vincent Van Gogh

 

6. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”

 

A. Margaret Sanger

B. Margaret Mitchell

C. Margaret Thatcher

 

7. “I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

 

A. James K. Polk

B. Donald Trump

C. Henry David Thoreau

 

8. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”

 

A. John Maynard Keynes

B. Bill Nye

C. Orville Redenbacher

 

9. “She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.”

 

A. Gypsy Rose Lee

B. Matthew McConaughey

C. Madison Bumgarner

 

10. “The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”

 

A. Jerry Brown

B. Napoleon Bonaparte

C. Andy Warhol

 

 

 

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

 

“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steve Furtick

 (Furtick, b. 1980, is a North Carolina pastor and author.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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August 9, 2014 · 7:35 pm

What’s Your QQ* #385

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published August 10, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

 

A. Clarence Thomas

B. Shirley MacLaine

C. Maya Angelou

 

2. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

 

A. Casey Kasem

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Edwin Hubble

 

3. “Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”

 

A. Aristotle

B. Bernie Sanders

C. Benito Mussolini

 

4. “Driving that train, high on cocaine/ Casey Jones you’d better watch your speed/ Trouble ahead, trouble behind/ And you know that notion/  just crossed my mind.”

 

A. Billy Joel

B. The O’Jays

C. Grateful Dead

 

5. “All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”

 

A. Galileo Galilei

B. Joan Rivers

C. Adlai E. Stevenson

 

6. “We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.”

 

A. LeBron James

B. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

C. William McKinley

 

7. “There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.”

 

A. Howard Stern

B. Washington Irving

C. Billy the Kid

 

8. “Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.”

 

A. Herbert Spencer

B. Dick Cheney

C. Jeffrey Dahmer

 

9. “The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.”

 

A. Rosalynn Carter

B. John Denver

C. Tallulah Bankhead

 

10. “[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

 

A. A.A. Milne

B. J. Edgar Hoover

C. Jon Stewart

 

 

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

 “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” ― Reinhold Niebuhr

Niebuhr, 1892-1971, a theolo gian and social activist, authored the Serenity Prayer. )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 26, 2014 · 8:39 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #383

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published July 27, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.”

 

A. Fred Allen

B. Fred Astaire

C. Fred Flintstone

 

2. “Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”

 

A. Will Rogers

B. Chris Christie

C. Aristotle

 

3. “I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”

 

A. Sally Field

B. Jack Benny

C. Audie Murphy

 

4. “This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.”

 

A. Neville Chamberlain

B. Angie Dickinson

C. Winston Churchill

 

5. “Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

 

A. Mel Gibson

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Howard Hughes

 

6. “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

 

A. Wayne Gretzky

B. Joan of Arc

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

7. “I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown; for going out, I found, was really going in.”

 

A. John Muir

B. Rocky Balboa

C. Theodore Roosevelt

 

8. “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

A. George Carlin

B. George Washington Carver

C. George Washington

 

9. “The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.”

 

A. Michele Bachmann

B. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

C. Joseph Stalin

 

10. “Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.”

 

A. Rosalynn Carter

B. Charles Dickens

C. Sharon Stone

 

 

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

 Television: “I didn’t ever dream it would be so good, the color and everything. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing!” – Vladimir Zworykin

 (Zworykin, 1889-1982, a Russian-born American electronic engineer and inventor, has been called the “Father of Television.”)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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June 29, 2014 · 11:11 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #379

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published June 29, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”

 

A. Indiana Jones

B. Georgia O’Keeffe

C. Tennessee Williams

 

2. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

 

A. Cliff Clavin

B. Cliff Huxtable

C. Aldous Huxley

 

3. “In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

 

A. Jeb Bush

B. Charles de Gaulle

C. Ann B. Davis

 

4. “Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.”

 

A. Lewis Carroll

B. Robinson Crusoe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

5. “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

 

A. Voltaire

B. Marcus Welby

C. Jefferson Davis

 

6. “Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”

 

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. George Washington Carver

C. George Armstrong Custer

 

7. “There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.”

 

A. Dennis Mitchell

B. Al Capone

C. G. K. Chesterton

 

8. “Way down upon de Swanee Ribber,/ Far, far away,/ Dere’s wha my heart is turning ebber,/ Dere’s wha de old folks stay.”

 

A. Stephen Foster

B. George Will

C. Kenny Rogers

 

9. “A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”

 

A. Albert Camus

B. Gore Vidal

C. Kim Kardashian

 

10. “Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”

 

A. Aristotle

B. Marlene Dietrich

C. Benjamin Netanyahu

 

 

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

 

 “Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.” –Arnold Bennett

 (Bennett, 1867-1931, was an English novelist and dramatist.)

 

 

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