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June 27, 2015 · 8:50 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #431

Published June 27-28, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”

A. Paul Simon

B. Lao Tzu

C. Gilda Radner

2. “Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”

A. Charles Addams

B. Reese Witherspoon

C. Benjamin Franklin

3. “Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.”

A. Muhammad Ali

B. Harpo Marx

C. Frankie Valli

4. “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”

A. Dwight D. Eisenhower

B. William Tecumseh Sherman

C. Colin Powell

5. “I’ve always wanted to sell out. The problem is nobody wanted to buy me.” 

A. John F. Kennedy

B. John Wayne

C. John Waters

6. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

A. Maya Angelou

B. Jordan Spieth

C. Elizabeth Taylor

7. “Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”

A. Jeb Bush

B. Dalai Lama

C. Jules Verne

8. “Hey, hey, easy, kids. Everybody in the car. Boat leaves in two minutes . . . or perhaps you don’t want to see the second-largest ball of twine on the face of the earth, which is only four short hours away?”

A. “Jurassic Park”

B. “National Lampoon’s Vacation”

C. “The Brady Bunch”

9. “Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

A. Will Durant

B. Eddie Haskell

C. Henry Ford

10. “The central question is whether the wonderfully diverse and gifted assemblage of human beings on this earth really knows how to run a civilization.”

A. Vince Lombardi

B. Jake Gyllenhaal

C. Adlai Stevenson

 

 

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

“Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

-Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, was an American radio personality and motivational speaker

 

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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.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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August 30, 2014 · 11:14 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #388

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published August 31, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

 

A. Bill Cosby

B. Raymond Burr

C. David Carradine

 

2. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

 

A. Rutherford B. Hayes

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Justin Bieber

 

3. “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

 

A. George Burns

B. Satchel Paige

C. Mark Twain

 

4. “I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”

 

A. Usain Bolt

B. Muhammad Ali

C. Orson Welles

 

5. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”

 

A. George Gershwin

B. Winston Churchill

C. Tiger Woods

 

6. “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”

 

A. Joseph Stalin

B. Jodie Foster

C. Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

7. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

 

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Ricky Ricardo

C. Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

8. “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

 

A. Albert Camus

B. Forrest Gump

C. Willy Wonka

 

9. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

 

A. Frank Sinatra

B. Chaz Bono

C. Ernest Hemingway

 

10. “Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.”

 

A. Ed Sullivan

B. Dorothy Parker

C. Fidel Castro

 

 

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

 

“Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.” — Bill Dodds

 (Dodds is a poet and novelist for young readers.)

 

 

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April 11, 2013 · 10:15 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #315

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published April 7, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

 

1. “I’m the big rubber clown doll you had as a kid, and every time you hit it, it bounces back. That’s me. The harder you hit me, the faster I come back up.”

A. Ronald McDonald

B. Bill Clinton

C. Tiger Woods

2. “Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand

to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.”

A. Carl Sandberg

B. Lou Gehrig

C. Albert Einstein

3. “Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”

A. Carl Sagan

B. Billy Graham

C. Bob Costas

4. “Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.”

A. H. G. Wells

B. Norman Bates

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 5. “My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

A. Piers Morgan

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Rita Rudner

6. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

A. John Belushi

B. Muhammad Ali

C. Mikhail Baryshnikov

7. “Freedom, well, that’s just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

A. The Kinks

B. The Eagles

C. The Doors

8. “Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.”

A. George Will

B. Paul Krugman

C. Vince Lombardi

 9. “What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

A. George Lopez

B. George W. Bush

C. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 

10. “Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope?  If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t.”

A. Samuel Alito

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Ricky Ricardo

 

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

 “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” – Doug Larson

 (Larson, b. 1926, was a syndicated newspaper columnist based in Wisconsin.)

 

 

 

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