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December 6, 2015 · 11:47 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #453

Published December 6, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)


 

1. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

 

A. Conan O’Brien

B. Caitlyn Jenner

C. Charles Darwin

 

2. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

 

A. Winston Churchill

B. Marco Polo

C. Paul McCartney

 

3. “I’m a wonderful housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.”

 

A. Katie Couric

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

4. “Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives…. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”

 

A. Bernie Sanders

B. Andy Williams

C. John Lennon

 

5. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

 

A. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

B. Jim Carrey

C. Timothy Leary

 

6. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

 

A. Chevy Chase

B. Viktor Frankl

C. Art Linkletter

 

7. “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”

 

A. Johnny Carson

B. Rachel Carson

C. Kit Carson

 

8. “Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.”

 

A. Jimmy Buffett

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. William Shakespeare

 

9. “If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.”

 

A. Wolfgang Puck

B. Elizabeth Warren

C. The Mad Hatter

 

10. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

 

A. Fidel Castro

B. Michael Richards

C. Walter Winchell

 

 

 

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

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”

–Paul Dudley White, 1886-1973, was an American physician and a pioneering cardiologist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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March 31, 2013 · 10:09 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #314

 *Quotation Quotient   

(Published March 31, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

A. Dean Martin

B. Mao Tse-Tung

C. Charles Darwin

 2. “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

A. John Kerry

B. John Foster Dulles

C. John F. Kennedy

 3. “Parents who expect gratitude from their children (there are even some who insist on it) are like usurers who gladly risk their capital if only they receive interest.”

A. Franz Kafka

B. Dave Barry

C. Martin Luther King

 4. “An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Upton Sinclair

C. Mike Krzyzewski

 5. “Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.”

A. Leonard Bernstein

B. Jack Nicklaus

C. Leonardo da Vinci

 6. “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

A. Robert Louis Stevenson

B. Theodore Roosevelt

C. Michele Bachmann

 7. “An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight … The truly wise person is color-blind.”

 A. Albert Schweitzer

B. Helen Keller

C. Barney Fife

 8. “Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.”

A. Michelle Obama

B. Andrew Lloyd Webber

C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 9. “I think, therefore I am.”

A. René Descartes

B. Crocodile Dundee

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 10. “I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.”

A. Socrates

B. Ambrose Bierce

C. Sheldon Cooper

 

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

 “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast/ To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” – William Congreve

 (Congreve, 1670-1729, was an English playwright and poet.)

 

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January 16, 2012 · 8:11 am

What’s Your QQ? #250

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.”  – Judith Crist

 (Crist, now 89, was one of New York’s foremost film and theater critics.)



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