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March 22, 2015 · 11:24 am

What’s Your QQ*? #417

(Published March 22, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle, Interactive version) 

1. “The trick in life isn’t getting what you want, my dear, it’s wanting it after you get it.”

A. Katharine Hepburn

B. Fyodor Dostoevsky

C. Eldridge Cleaver

2. “If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.”

A. Irving Berlin

B. John Kerry

C. Dorothy Parker

3. “Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Albert Einstein

C. Jennifer Lopez

4. “The thought of death has now become a part of my life. I read the obituaries every day just for the satisfaction of not seeing my name there.”

A. Neil Simon

B. Neil deGrasse Tyson

C. Neil Patrick Harris

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

A. Rachael Ray

B. Emily Dickinson

C. Donald Trump

6. “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”

A. Yogi Berra

B. Whoopi Goldberg

C. Henry Ward Beecher

7. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

A. Charlie Chaplin

B. Ringo Starr

C. Anwar al-Sadat

8. “Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?”

A. Steven Spielberg

B. Steven Wright

C. Steven Seagal

9. “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

A. Marcel Marceau

B. Salvador Dali

C. Mark Twain

10. “Every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn’t.”

A. Dan Savage

B. Larry King

C. Al Jolson

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

“Mankind is safer when men seek pleasure than when they seek the power and the glory.”

―Geoffrey Gorer

(Gorer, 1905-1985, was an English anthropologist and author.)

What’s Your QQ*? #378

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published June 22, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.”

A. Sir Isaac Newton

B. Bernard Malamud

C. Casey Jones

2. “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”

A. Bertrand Russell

B. Auguste Rodin

C. Henry Kissinger

3. “Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore.’”

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Edgar Cayce

C. Edgar Degas

4. “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

A. Lex Luthor

B. Mark Twain

C. Andrew Jackson

5. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

A. Rube Goldberg

B. William Randolph Hearst

C. Henry David Thoreau

6. “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”

A. David Gregory

B. Noam Chomsky

C. Lucille Ball

7. “Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”

A. Katharine Hepburn

B. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson

C. Drew Barrymore

8. “What should you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?”

A. Boz Scaggs

B. Neil deGrasse Tyson

C. George Carlin

9. “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to.”

A. Frank Gore

B. Al Gore

C. Lesley Gore

10. “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.”

A. Carl Sagan

B. Casey Kasem

C. George Washington

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

“One can judge a civilization by the way it treats its women.” – Helen Foster Snow

(Snow, 1907-1997, was an American journalist who lived and reported from China in the turbulent 1930s.)

What’s Your QQ? #303

Published January 13, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald

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