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April 10, 2016 · 10:50 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #470

Published April 10, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version) 

 

1. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

 

A. Lord Acton

B. Rodney Dangerfield

C. Richard Nixon

 

2. “Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.”    

 

A. Jack Nicklaus

B. Adlai Stevenson

C. Ralph Nader

 

3. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

 

A. Dick Tracy

B. Sherlock Holmes

C. Diane Keaton

 

4. “I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

 

A. Rose Kennedy

B. Jack Paar

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

 

5. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

A. George Orwell

B. George Harrison

C. George Washington

 

6. “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

 

A. John Wayne

B. Ludwig van Beethoven

C. Pablo Picasso

 

7. “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

 

A. Captain Kangaroo

B.  Oscar Wilde

C. Mother Teresa

 

8. “Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”

 

A. Mark Twain

B. Marilyn Manson

C. Garfield

 

9. “Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.”

 

A. Strom Thurmond

B. Pearl S. Buck

C. Chris Rock

 

10. “An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

 

A. Andy Devine

B. Andy Gibb

C. Andy Warhol

 

 

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

“Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.”

–Linda Dillow is an American author of religious books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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October 12, 2014 · 7:52 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #394

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published October 12, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Everything is changing; people are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”

 

A. Will Rogers

B. Al Franken

C. Rick Perry

 

2. “It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.”

 

A. Barbara Kingsolver

B. Bing Crosby

C. Genghis Khan

 

3. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

 

A. John McEnroe

B. J.K. Rowling

C. Woodrow Wilson

 

4. “If life is a bowl of cherries what am I doing in the pits?”

 

A. Fyodor Dostoevsky

B. A. J. Foyt

C. Erma Bombeck

 

5. “Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?”

 

A. David Bowie

B. David Halberstam

C. David Copperfield

 

6. “It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

 

A. Jimmy Swaggart

B. Mona Lisa

C. Margaret Mead

 

7. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.”

 

A. Pearl S. Buck

B. Lady Gaga

C. John Wayne

 

8. “The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. I’ve gotten back at lawyers, prosecutors, judges, law professors, and politicians. I just line ’em up and shoot ’em.”

 

A. John Grisham

B. Bugsy Siegel

C. Jack London

 

9. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

 

A. King Midas

B. Ron Paul

C. J.R.R. Tolkien

 

10. “Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

 

A. John Kerry

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Nobody

 

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

“Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.” – Helen Merrell Lynd

 (Lynd, 1896-1982, was an American sociologist and educator.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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October 28, 2013 · 12:31 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #344

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published October 27, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

1. “On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”

A. Rodney Dangerfield

B. Freddy Krueger

C. John Foster Dulles

2. “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”

A. Harpo Marx

B. Groucho Marx

C. Warren Buffett

3. “Water, water, every where,/ And all the boards did shrink;/

Water, water, every where,/ Nor any drop to drink.”

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Tom Hanks

C. Edgar Allan Poe

4. “If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ”

A. Carrie White

B. Pearl S. Buck

C. Honus Wagner

5. “The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”

A. Prince Charles

B. Mark Twain

C. Benjamin Franklin

6. “If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.”

A. Auguste Rodin

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Plato

7. “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course other may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

A. Aaron Burr

B. Bea Arthur

C. Patrick Henry

8. “There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”

A. George S. Patton

B. Snooki

C. Alexander Hamilton

9. “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. John McCain

C. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

10. “A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises.  Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. “

A. Lesley Stahl

B. J.M. Barrie

C. Boris Karloff

 

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

 “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” – Steve Almond

 (Almond, 1966- , is an American short story writer and essayist.)

 


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June 10, 2013 · 10:49 am

What’s Your QQ*? #324

*Quotation Quotient

  (Published June 9, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)

 1. “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ”

A. Pete Seeger

B. Socrates

C. Natty Bumpo

2. “All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”

A. Pearl Jam

B. Pearl S. Buck

C. Pearl Bailey

3. “You may give {your children} your love but not your thoughts./ For they have their own thoughts./  You may house their bodies but not their souls,/ For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Khalil Gibran

C. Edmund Burke

4. “The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children.”

A. Amy Schumer

B. Hippocrates

C. Clarence Darrow

5. “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

A. Andy Kaufman

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Winston Churchill

6. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Pope Francis

C. Albert Einstein

7. “It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

A. Rihanna

B. Bertrand Russell

C. Edward R. Murrow

8. “Hold fast to dreams,/ For if dreams die/ Life is a broken-winged bird,/ That cannot fly.”

A. Langston Hughes

B. Shel Silverstein

C. Agatha Christie

9. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

A. Milton Friedman

B. Al Yankovic

C. J.K. Rowling

10. “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

A. Paul McCartney

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Alexander Pope

 

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

 “True eloquence consists in saying all that should be, not all that could be said.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 (La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, was a French author of maxims and memoirs.)

 

 

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