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December 15, 2013 · 5:47 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #351

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published December 15, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”

A. Margot Fonteyn

B. Bozo the Clown

C. Aristotle

 

2. “And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence.”

A. Bruce Springsteen

B. Banksy

C. Paul Simon

 

3. “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

A. A. A. Milne

B. Christopher Lloyd

C. Ferdinand Magellan

 

4. “Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”

A. Sasha Obama

B. Amy Tan

C. Bertrand Russell

 

5.  “Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.”

A. Brad Pitt

B. John Goodman

C. Rudolph Valentino

 

6. “He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.”

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Bilbo Baggins

C. H. Norman Schwarzkopf   

 

7. “Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”

A. Russell Brand

B. Russell Crowe

C. Russell Baker

 

8. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

A. Bob Marley

B. Johann Sebastian Bach

C. Lawrence Welk

 

9. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

A. Kobe Bryant

B. Rene Descartes

C. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

10. “A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.”

A. Ringo Starr

B. Alistair Cooke

C. George Armstrong Custer

 

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

 “If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.” – Claude Pepper

 (Pepper, 1900-1989, served more than four decades as a Democratic Senator and Representative from Florida.)

 

 


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October 28, 2013 · 12:31 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #344

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published October 27, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”

A. Rodney Dangerfield

B. Freddy Krueger

C. John Foster Dulles

2. “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”

A. Harpo Marx

B. Groucho Marx

C. Warren Buffett

3. “Water, water, every where,/ And all the boards did shrink;/

Water, water, every where,/ Nor any drop to drink.”

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Tom Hanks

C. Edgar Allan Poe

4. “If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ”

A. Carrie White

B. Pearl S. Buck

C. Honus Wagner

5. “The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”

A. Prince Charles

B. Mark Twain

C. Benjamin Franklin

6. “If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.”

A. Auguste Rodin

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Plato

7. “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course other may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

A. Aaron Burr

B. Bea Arthur

C. Patrick Henry

8. “There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”

A. George S. Patton

B. Snooki

C. Alexander Hamilton

9. “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. John McCain

C. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

10. “A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises.  Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. “

A. Lesley Stahl

B. J.M. Barrie

C. Boris Karloff

 

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

 “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” – Steve Almond

 (Almond, 1966- , is an American short story writer and essayist.)

 


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May 12, 2013 · 9:09 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #320

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published May 12, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”

A. Nurse Ratched

B. Elizabeth Taylor

C. Groucho Marx

2. “Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.”

A. Laurence J. Peter

B. Bashar al-Assad

C. Harry Truman

3. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

A. Miguel de Cervantes

B. Dr. Seuss

C. Mickey Mantle

4. “That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,/ Lest you should think he never could recapture/ The first fine careless rapture!”

A. Robert Browning

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Gwyneth Paltrow

5. “A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.”

A. Paul Revere

B. Bill Shoemaker

C. Benjamin Franklin

6. “The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Leslie Stahl

C. Will Rogers

7. “While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”

A. Orson Welles

B. Dawn Wells

C. H. G. Wells

8. “It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”

A. Reese Witherspoon

B. Winston Churchill

C. J.R.R. Tolkien

9. “I hate driving, and I hate when people honk at me. Unless I’m making a left turn. Then I like it because that’s how I know it’s time to turn.”

A. Rita Hayworth

B. Rita Rudner

C. Rita Moreno

10. “The measure of a man’s life is the well spending of it, and not the length.”

A. Plutarch

B. Bruno Mars

C. Edgar Cayce

 

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

 “Children may forget what you say, but they’ll never forget how you make them feel.” – Parker Palmer

 (Palmer is an author, educator and speaker about education, spirituality, and social change.)

 

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March 18, 2013 · 9:19 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #312

*Quotation Quotient 

(Published March 17, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald)     

 

1. “Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

A. William Henry Harrison

B. William Shatner

C. William Faulkner

 2. “Double, double toil and trouble;/  Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”

A. J.K. Rowling

B. William Shakespeare

C. Barney Frank

 3. “My spelling is Wobbly.  It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

A. A.A. Milne

B. B.B. King

C. C.C. Ryder

 4. “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

A. Dwight D. Eisenhower

B. Donald Rumsfeld

C. Hawkeye Pierce

 5. “I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o’er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils.”

A. William Wordsworth

B. Ogden Nash

C. Kobe Bryant

 6. “Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.”

A. Nate Silver

B. Jules Verne

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 7. “If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.”

 A. Clark Kent

B. Bertrand Russell

C. Jennifer Aniston

 8. “Be always ashamed to catch yourself idle.”

A. Redd Foxx

B. Eric Idle

C. Benjamin Franklin

 9. “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” 

A. Winston Churchill

B. Alan Young

C. Eddie Arcaro

 10. “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”

A. Albert Einstein

B. Mark Twain

C. Oprah Winfrey

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

 “When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.” – Charles Dana

 (Dana, 1819-1897, was an American journalist, editor and publisher.)

 

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