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September 21, 2014 · 1:24 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #391

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published September 21, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Our doubts are traitors,/  and make us lose the good we oft might win,/ by fearing to attempt.”

 

A. Leonard Cohen

B. Tom Hanks

C. William Shakespeare

 

2. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

 

A. Thomas Edison

B. Gabe Kotter

C. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

3. “The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”

 

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Lyndon Johnson

C. Dwayne Johnson

 

4. “It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

 

A. Hercules

B. Pharrell

C. Aesop

 

5. “A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

 

A. Rodney Dangerfield

B. H.L. Mencken

C. John Kerry

 

6. “The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.”

 

A. Marquis de Sade

B. Bill Mahr

C. Mamie Eisenhower

 

7. “Love and marriage, love and marriage/ Go together like a horse and carriage/ This I tell you brother/ You can’t have one without the other.”

 

A. Bob Marley

B. Sammy Cahn

C. Johnny Cash

 

8. “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

 

A. George Clooney

B. George Harrison

C. George Bernard Shaw

 

9. “It is the habit of mankind to mistake familiarity for accurate knowledge.”

 

A. Jim Rockford

B. John Stuart Mill

C. Hippocrates

 

10. “I stand for the square deal. But when I say that I am for a square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having the rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.”

 

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

 

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

 “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.” ― Charles Caleb Colton

 (Colton, 1780-1892, was an English cleric and writer.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 12, 2014 · 3:58 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #381

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published July 13, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”

 

A. Redd Foxx

B. Jane Fonda

C. George Will

 

2. “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”

 

A. Pope John Paul II

B. Raymond Chandler

C. A. A. Milne

 

3. “The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

 

A. Karl Marx

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Edward R. Murrow

 

4. “The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.”

 

A. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

B. Lindsey Graham

C. Jim Carrey

 

5. “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”

 

A. Leonardo da Vinci

B. Jessica Simpson

C. Chiang Kai-shek

 

6. “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.”

 

A. Confucius

B. Erle Stanley Gardner

C. Rudyard Kipling

 

7. “Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.”

 

A. Harry Potter

B. Beatrix Potter

C. Henry F. Potter

 

8. “The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.”        

 

A. H. L. Mencken

B. Warren G. Harding

C. Buddy Ebsen

 

9. “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”

 

A. Ulysses S. Grant

B. Prince Philip

C. Louis Pasteur

 

10. “Humanity i love you because/ when you’re hard up you pawn your/

   intelligence to buy a drink.”

 

A. Dean Martin

B. Omar Khayyam

C. E.E. Cummings

 

 

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

 “Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?” – Elias Canetti

 (Canetti, 1905-1994, a Bulgarian-born writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.)

 

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May 4, 2014 · 7:37 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #371

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published May 4, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

A. Ulysses S. Grant

B. Ringo Starr

C. Henry David Thoreau

 

2. “Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”

A. Donald Trump

B. The Buddha

C. Simon Cowell

 

3. “For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.”

A. Gore Vidal

B. Hieronymus Bosch

C. Hugh Hefner

 

4. “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”

A. John Maynard Keynes

B. Karl Marx

C. Lesley Stahl

 

 

5. “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

A. Bruce Springsteen

B. Victor Borge

C. Mickhail Gorbachev

 

6. “Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual without the nourishing soil of the community.”

A. Ferdinand Magellan

B. Bob Dylan

C. Albert Einstein

 

7. “There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.”

A. Donald Sterling

B. Norman Mailer

C. Benjamin Franklin

 

8. “Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.”

A. Han Solo

B. Willa Cather

C. Oscar Pistorius

 

9. “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

A. Marcus Aurelius

B. Holden Caulfield

C. Tiger Woods

 

10. “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

A. Thomas Aquinas

B. Rick Santorum

C. H.L. Mencken

 

 

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

 “Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.” – Edward Thorndike

 (Thorndike, 1874-1949, was an American psychologist and educator.)

 

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February 8, 2014 · 6:30 pm

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.)

 

 

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