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December 7, 2014 · 11:58 am

What’s Your QQ*? #402

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published December 7, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

A. Henry Cabot Lodge

B. Anne Frank

C. Gwyneth Paltrow

2. “One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Andrew Lloyd Webber

C. Garfield

3. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

A. Jimmy Hoffa

B. Whoopi Goldberg

C. Stephen R. Covey

4. “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

A. Sam Malone

B. James Cagney

C. Humphrey Bogart

5. “Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.”

A. Henry Steele Commager

B. Dana Carvey

C. Will Rogers

6. “One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”

A. Elizabeth Taylor

B. Eleanor Roosevelt

C. Benjamin Franklin

7. “I’m not overweight. I’m just nine inches too short.”

A. Wilt Chamberlain

B. Shelley Winters

C. Orson Welles

8. “I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”

A. Ludwig van Beethoven

B. Chuck Todd

C. Alexis de Tocqueville

9. “Language, — human language, — after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature, — sometimes not so adequate.”

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Mikhail Baryshnikov

C. William Shakespeare

10. “Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”

A. Ralph Malph

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Ralph Nader

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

“The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.” – Edward Fitzgerald

(Fitzgerald, 1809-1883, was an English poet best known for his translation of “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.”)

What’s Your QQ*? #375

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published June 1, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

1. “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Mitch McConnell

C. John F. Kennedy

2. “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

A. Neil Diamond

B. Ludwig van Beethoven

C. Frank Zappa

3. “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

A. H.G. Wells

B. Zbigniew Brzezinski

C. Mary Tyler Moore

4. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

A. Benjamin Netanyahu

B. Benjamin Disraeli

C. Benjamin Harrison

5. “Shake and shake / the catsup bottle / first none’ll come / and then a lot’ll.”

A. Rodney Dangerfield

B. Robert Frost

C. Richard Armour

6. “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

A. Aristotle

B. Richard Nixon

C. Sinead O’Conner

7. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

A. Socrates

B. Margaret Mead

C. Jesse Jackson

8. “Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

A. Daniel Boone

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Kelly Clarkson

9. “What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle — oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!”

A. Henry Ward Beecher

B. Sarah Silverman

C. A. A. Milne

10. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

A. Zane Grey

B. Bill Gates

C. Gertrude Stein

Answers: 1-A, 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:

“If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.” – Phyllis Bottome

(Bottome, 1884-1963, was a British novelist and short story writer.)

What’s Your QQ*? #357

*Quotation Quotient

(Published January 26, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “A birdie with a yellow bill/ Hopped upon the window sill,

Cocked his shining eye and said:/ ‘Ain’t you ‘shamed, you sleepy-head?’”

A. Jane Smiley

B. Robert Louis Stevenson

C. John Steinbeck

2. “My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Jack LaLanne

C. Stephen King

3. “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

A. Rush Limbaugh

B. Jed Clampett

C. John F. Kennedy

4. “Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?/ Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?”

A. Judy Collins

B. Luther Burbank

C. Pete Seeger

5. “Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.”

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Crazy Horse

6. “The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”

A. Michael Bloomberg

B. Randi Rhodes

C. George Washington

7. “When I read something saying I’ve not done anything as good as ‘Catch-22’ I’m tempted to reply, ‘Who has?'”

A. Joseph Campbell

B. Joseph Heller

C. Joseph Conrad

8. “Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”

A. Salman Rushdie

B. Mario Savio

C. Alex Rodriguez

9. “Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.”

A. Marcel Marceau

B. Paul Simon

C. Thomas Carlyle

10. “There’s a sexual revolution going on, and I think that with our current foreign policy, we’ll probably be sending troops there any minute to break it up.”

A. Mel Brooks

B. Elizabeth Warren

C. John McCain

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

“Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.” – Heinz R. Pagels

(Pagels, 1939-1988, was an American physicist.)

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