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June 1, 2014 · 12:34 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #375

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published June 1, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Mitch McConnell

C. John F. Kennedy

 

2. “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

A. Neil Diamond

B. Ludwig van Beethoven

C. Frank Zappa

 

3. “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

A. H.G. Wells

B. Zbigniew Brzezinski

C. Mary Tyler Moore

 

4. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

A. Benjamin Netanyahu

B. Benjamin Disraeli

C. Benjamin Harrison

 

5. “Shake and shake / the catsup bottle / first none’ll come / and then a lot’ll.”

A. Rodney Dangerfield

B. Robert Frost

C. Richard Armour

 

6. “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

A. Aristotle

B. Richard Nixon

C. Sinead O’Conner

 

7. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

A. Socrates

B. Margaret Mead

C. Jesse Jackson

 

8. “Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

A. Daniel Boone

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Kelly Clarkson

 

9. “What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle — oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!”

A. Henry Ward Beecher

B. Sarah Silverman

C. A. A. Milne

 

10. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

A. Zane Grey

B. Bill Gates

C. Gertrude Stein

 

 

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

 “If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.” – Phyllis Bottome

 (Bottome, 1884-1963, was a British novelist and short story writer.)

 

 

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March 2, 2014 · 8:13 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #362

*Quotation Quotient

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

1. “’Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, very gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’”

A. Lewis Carroll

B. Stephen King

C. Maurice Sendak

 

2. “I often covered more than a hundred sheets of paper with drafts, revisions, rewritings, ravings, doodlings, and intensely concentrated work to construct a single verse.”

A. William Shakespeare

B. Elton John

C. Dylan Thomas

 

3. “A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”

A. Jules Verne

B. Herman Melville

C. John Kerry

 

4. “The meaning of life is that it stops.”

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Franz Kafka

C. Simon Cowell

 

5. “The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.”

A. John Lennon

B. John Hancock

C. John Stuart Mill

 

6. “Man is by nature a political animal.”

A. Nancy Pelosi

B. Aristotle

C. Charlie Sheen

 

7. “Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.”

A. E.B. White

B. Barry White

C. Perry White

 

8. “Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.”

A. Jack Benny

B. Andrew Carnegie

C. Dr. Karl Menninger

 

9. “I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn’t like.”

A. Johnny Carson

B. Will Rogers

C. George Carlin

 

10. “O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;/ The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Mr. Spock

C. Walt Whitman

 

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

 

“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.” – Paul Bourget

(Bourget, 1852-1935, was a French novelist and critic.)

 

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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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August 11, 2013 · 11:04 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #333

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published August 11, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

A. Alan Kalter

B. Aristotle

C. Mary Todd Lincoln

2. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”

A. Ted Bundy

B. Julie Andrews

C. Clarence Darrow

3. “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

A. Franklin Roosevelt

B. Dwight Eisenhower

C. Mother Teresa

4. “Ring the bells that still can ring/ Forget your perfect offering/

There is a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in.”

A. Leonard Cohen

B. Thomas Edison

C. Michael Jackson

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

A. Martin Luther King, Jr.

B. Martin Van Buren

C. Martin Heidegger

6. “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

A. Bill O’Reilly

B. Stevie Wonder

C. John Kenneth Galbraith

7. “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

A. Robert F. Kennedy

B. William F. Buckley, Jr.

C. B. F. Skinner

8. “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”

A. Adlai Stevenson

B. Grover Cleveland

C. Karl Rove

9. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

A. Joe Biden

B. Mary Tyler Moore

C. Marilyn Monroe

10. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

A. Mae West

B. Alan Greenspan

C. Henry David Thoreau

 

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

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”  – Maurice Switzer

(Switzer’s quote is from his 1906 book, “Mrs. Goose, Her Book.”)

 

 

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