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January 17, 2015 · 5:34 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #408

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published January 18, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

A. Angela Merkel

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Jerry Garcia

2. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

A. Confucius

B. Jay-Z

C. Nostradamus

3. “I have not yet begun to fight!”

A. John Paul Jones

B. Rocky Marciano

C. Winston Churchill

4. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That’s what makes you a champion.”

A. Marie Osmond

B. Babe Ruth

C. Muhammad Ali

5. “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

A. J. Edgar Hoover

B. Colin Powell

C. Mahatma Gandhi

6. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.”

A. Stephen R. Covey

B. Marshall McLuhan

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

7. “If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”

A. Dennis the Menace

B. Calvin & Hobbes

C. Peanuts

8. “It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth on a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.”

A. R. Buckminster Fuller

B. John McCain

C. Jerry Lee Lewis

9. “Sometimes it seems like I’ve known so many men, the FBI ought to come to me to compare fingerprints.”

A. Doris Day

B. Carol Burnett

C. Mae West

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

A. Andrew Carnegie

B. Martin Luther King Jr.

C. Mother Teresa

Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-A , 4-C , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 8-A , 9-C , 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 would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” – Richard P. Feynman

(Feynman, 1918-1988, was an American theoretical physicist.)

What’s Your QQ*? #399

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published November 16, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Harpo Marx

C. Mitch Albom

2. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

A. Ernest Borgnine

B. Frank & Ernest

C. Ernest Hemingway

3. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

A. Winston Churchill

B. Bill Clinton

C. Ray Magliozzi

4. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”

A. Bill Maher

B. Mother Teresa

C. Barack Obama

5. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Pat Robertson

C. Jimmy Carter

6. “I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”

A. Mitch McConnell

B. Natalie Maines

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

7. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

A. Napoleon Hill

B. Napoleon Dynamite

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

8. “Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

A. Henry Kissinger

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Genghis Khan

9. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

A. Pablo Picasso

B. Carl Jung

C. Woodrow Wilson

10. “When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

A. Patrick Henry

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Perry Mason

Answers: 1-C, 2-C , 3-A , 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:

“People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” – Neil Gaiman

(Gaiman, b. 1960, is an English author in various genres.)

What’s Your QQ*? #392

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published September 28, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

A. Ellen DeGeneres

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Bashar al-Assad

2. “Fame is a fickle food/ Upon a shifting plate.”

A. John Edwards

B. Ryan Seacrest

C. Emily Dickinson

3. “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

A. H.L. Mencken

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Lindsey Graham

4. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

A. Richard Nixon

B. Thurston Howell III

C. Vince Lombardi

5. “I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

A. Anthony Weiner

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Jillian Michaels

6. “When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. George Lopez

C. George Zimmerman

7. “Music begins to atrophy when it gets too far from the dance…poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”

A. William Shakespeare

B. John Goodman

C. Ezra Pound

8. “Poems are made by fools like me,/ But only God can make a tree.”

A. Joyce Kilmer

B. Joyce Brothers

C. James Joyce

9. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Angelo Di Girolamo

C. Rand Paul

10. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

A. Timothy Leary

B. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

C. Nikita Khrushchev

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

“The college was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the contrary.” — May Sarton

(Sarton, 1912-1855, was an American poet, novelist and memoirist.)

What’s Your QQ*? #366

*Quotation Quotient

(Published March 30, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

A. Eric Hoffer

B. Eric Clapton

C. Eric Cantor

2. “No man ever yet became great by imitation.”

A. Elvis Presley

B. Jimmy Fallon

C. Samuel Johnson

3. “You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.”

A. John Barrymore

B. Condoleezza Rice

C. Paul McCartney

4. “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

A. Phil Bowhay

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Rupert Murdoch

5. “Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.”

A. Kim Jong-un

B. Bill Mahr

C. Aldous Huxley

6. “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Groucho Marx

C. Jack LaLanne

7. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

A. Immanuel Kant

B. Dorothy Parker

C. Mario Andretti

8. “Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don’t have film.”

A. Marilu Henner

B. Mathew Brady

C. Steven Wright

9. “She wears her clothes as if they are thrown on with a pitchfork”

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Chelsea Handler

C. Donatella Versace

10. “When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

A. Jerry Lewis

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Warren G. Harding

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

“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.”

– Cyril Connolly

(Connolly, 1903-1974, was an English novelist and literary critic.)

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