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April 3, 2015 · 8:27 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #419

(Published April 3, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version) 

1. “What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?”

A. Edward Norton

B. Edward Snowden

C. Edward Albee

2. “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

A. James Thurber

B. Sarah Silverman

C. Thomas Edison

3. “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

A. John Lennon

B. John Muir

C. John Travolta

4. “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

A. Will Farrell

B. Susan B. Anthony

C. Nikita Khrushchev

5. “Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;/ Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;/ Thy fate is the common fate of all,/ Into each life some rain must fall,/ Some days must be dark and dreary.”

A. Billy Joel

B. Shel Silverstein

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6. “The town was so dull that when the tide went out it refused to come back.”

A. Fred Allen

B. Jason Burnett

C. Bill Kampe

7. “Democracy don’t rule the world/ You’d better get that in your head/ This world is ruled by violence/ But I guess that’s better left unsaid.”

A. Bob Dylan

B. Donald Rumsfeld

C. Robert Frost

8. “When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.”

A. Frédéric Chopin

B. Orson Welles

C. James Naismith

9. “The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.”

A. Richard Nixon

B. Martina Navratilova

C. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

10. “That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

A. George Foreman

B. George Washington

C. George Carlin

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

“No social system in any country will bring us happiness, health, and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.”

– Clement R. Attlee, 1883-1967, was a Labour Party leader and British prime minister from 1945-1951.

What’s Your QQ*? #313

*Quotation Quotient

(Published March 24, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”

A. Henry van Dyke

B. Dick Van Dyke

C. Jerry Van Dyke

2. “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”

A. Ted Nugent

B. Albert Einstein

C. Sammy Davis Jr.

3. “Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

A. George Zimmerman

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. George Michael

4. “I was a child and she was a child,/ In this kingdom by the sea;/ But we loved with a love that was more than love-/ I and my Annabel Lee;/ With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven/ Coveted her and me.”

A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Luciano Pavarotti

C. Edgar Allan Poe

5. “To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.”

A. Oscar Wilde

B. Meryl Streep

C. Sigmund Freud

6. “The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”

A. Millard Fillmore

B. Tommy Rettig

C. James Thurber

7. “But a man can be a tramp, purposeless, and be happy… I verily believe, vast numbers of men would gladly drift away as wasters, if there were anywhere to drift to.”

A. Jennifer Lawrence

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. Lawrence of Arabia

8. “We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.”

A. Martin Luther King III

B. Dick Cheney

C. Osama bin Laden

9. “I don’t believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.”

A. C. Everett Koop

B. Hippocrates

C. Christiann Barnard

10. “No human thing is of serious importance.”

A. Bono

B. Garfield

C. Plato

Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-B , 4-C , 5-A , 6-C , 7-B , 8-A , 9-C , 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 dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.” – Cyril Connolly

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

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you’re going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.” –Butch Hancock

(Hancock is a country/rock singer-songwriter, and a founding member of the Flatlanders.)