Tag Archives: Eleanor Roosevelt

March 23, 2014 · 12:30 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #365

*Quotation Quotient

(Published March 23, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

A. Jon Stewart

B. Charles Dickens

C. Leo Tolstoy

2. “So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.”

A. Eleanor Roosevelt

B. Eleanor Rigby

C. Eleanor Clift

3. “We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.”

A. Austin Powers

B. Benjamin Disraeli

C. Oscar Hammerstein

4. “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

A. J. Edgar Hoover

B. George Washington

C. Albert Einstein

5. “The trouble with the rat race is even if you win, you’re still a rat.”

A. B. F. Skinner

B. Lily Tomlin

C. Sammy Davis Jr.

6. “Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man’s papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.”

A. Jonas Salk

B. Paul Simon

C. Halle Berry

7. “It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”

A. Florence Henderson

B. Florence Griffith Joyner

C. Florence Nightingale

8. “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.”

A. Lyndon Johnson

B. Barack Obama

C. Dwight Eisenhower

9. “Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.”

A. Benjamin Spock

B. Saul Alinsky

C. Roseanne Barr

10. “My candle burns at both ends;/ It will not last the night;/ But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends -/ it gives a lovely light.”

A. Edna St. Vincent Millay

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Elton John

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

“When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.” – Nick Arnette

(Arnette is a comedian and inspirational speaker.)

What’s Your QQ*? #359

*Quotation Quotient

(Published February 9, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he’ll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.”

A. William Shatner

B. Emmet Kelly

C. Philip Seymour Hoffman

2. “We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

A. H.G. Wells

B. Orson Welles

C. Wells Fargo

3. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”

A. Marlene Dietrich

B. Mitch McConnell

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

4. “If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”

A. H.L. Mencken

B. Hannibal Lecter

C. John Adams

5. “The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It’s one reason why they don’t die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.”

A. Rihanna

B. Margaret Mead

C. Charles Darwin

6. “Jeepers Creepers, where’d ya get those peepers?”

A. Johnny Cash

B. Johnny Depp

C. Johnny Mercer

7. “What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it…. which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.'”

A. Thomas Paine

B. Robert A. Heinlein

C. P.T. Barnum

8. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.”

A. Oliver Wendell Holmes

B. Alexander Graham Bell

C. Neil Patrick Harris

9. “I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.”

A. H. Ross Perot

B. R. Buckminster Fuller

C. J. Edgar Hoover

10. “He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.”

A. Ursula Le Guin

B. John McCain

C. Kim Kardashian

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

“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.” ―William Ernest Hocking

(Hocking, 1873-1966, was an American philosopher and author.)

What’s Your QQ*? #354

*Quotation Quotient

(Published January 5, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”

A. Jackson Pollock

B. Will Rogers

C. Mark Twain

2. “A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble.”

A. Adlai Stevenson

B. William Howard Taft

C. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

3. “Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”

A. Eleanor Roosevelt

B. The Kingston Trio

C. Julius Caesar

4. “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

A. George Orwell

B. John McCain

C. Karl Marx

5. “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”

A. Knute Rockne

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. W.C. Fields

6. “I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”

A. Debbie Allen

B. Woody Allen

C. Joan Allen

7. “There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified the concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.”

A. William Faulkner

B. Flip Wilson

C. Joseph Heller

8. “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.’?”

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. George Noory

C. Jay Leno

9. “I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.”

A. Herman Melville

B. Truman Capote

C. Christopher Columbus

10. “Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.”

A. Alfred Hitchcock

B. Alfred Lord Tennyson

C. Alfred E. Neuman

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

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!” – Aleister Crowley

(Crowley, 1857-1947,was a controversial English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet and mountaineer.)

What’s Your QQ*? #336

*Quotation Quotient

(Published September 1, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

A. Paul Peterson

B. Pablo Picasso

C. Peter Parker

2. “I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.”

A. Stephen Hawking

B. Nicolaus Copernicus

C. Mark Zuckerberg

3. “A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

A. Sammy Davis, Jr.

B. Nancy Reagan

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

4. “What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

A. Frank Lloyd Wright

B. George Takei

C. Henry David Thoreau

5. “It’s the well-behaved children..that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on they make society pay dearly.”

A. Jean-Paul Sartre

B. Fidel Castro

C. Mary Tyler Moore

6. “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

A. Samuel Adams

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Samuel Clemens

7. “What we call ‘morals’ is simply blind obedience to words of command.”

A. Havelock Ellis

B. Jackson Pollock

C. Nathan Lane

8. “About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

A. Anthony Weiner

B. Miley Cyrus

C. Ernest Hemingway

9. “Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.”

A. James Buchanan

B. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

C. Studs Terkel

10. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

A. John Wooden

B. E. E. Cummings

C. Rand Paul

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

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed – while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.” ― Vasily Grossman

(Grossman, 1905-1964, was a Soviet writer and war correspondent.)

2 Comments

Filed under quotation quiz, quotation quotient, quotations, quote quiz, quotes, quotes quiz, What's Your QQ?

Tagged as E.E. Cummings, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Henry David Thoreau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Samuel Johnson, Stephen Hawking, Studs Terkel, Vasily Grossman

Tag Archives: Eleanor Roosevelt

What’s Your QQ*? #365

BONUS QUOTE:

What’s Your QQ*? #359

BONUS QUOTE:

What’s Your QQ*? #354

BONUS QUOTE:

What’s Your QQ*? #336

Email Subscription

Archives