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April 20, 2014 · 8:33 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #369

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published April 20, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “Life is something you do when you can’t get to sleep.”

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Wolf Blitzer

C. Fran Lebowitz

2. “I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.”

A. Winston Churchill

B. Henry Ford

C. Jennifer Aniston

3. “Take most people, they’re crazy about cars…I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”

A. Bill Shoemaker

B. Wilbur Post

C. J.D. Salinger

4. “I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.”

A. Robert Louis Stevenson

B. Adlai Stevenson

C. McLean Stevenson

5. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

A. Benjamin Disraeli

B. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

C. Marie Antoinette

6. “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”

A. Christopher Columbus

B. Yasser Arafat

C. R.D. Laing

7. “You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight – though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.”

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Cesar Chavez

C. Francisco Goya

8. “Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”

A. Hillary Clinton

B. Gloria Steinem

C. Che Guevara

9. “Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.”

A. David Letterman

B. Jesse James

C. Rudy Giuliani

10. “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

A. Sid Caesar

B. Confucius

C. Pharrell Williams

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

“I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.” – Joseph Priestley

(Priestley, 1733-1804, was an English theologian, philosopher and scientist.)

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.)

What’s Your QQ? #244

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.” Dr. Lee DeForest (1957)

(Dr. DeForest, 1873-1961, was a major contributor to the inventions of radio, television, and motion picture sound.)