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October 26, 2014 · 8:56 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #396

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published October 26, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Ink-fresh papers, millions of them—ink-fresh with morning, orange juice, waffles, eggs and bacon, and cups of strong hot coffee. How fine it is, here in America, at ink-fresh, coffee-fragrant morning, to read the paper!”

 

A. Tom Hanks

B. Tom Wolfe

C. Tom Friedman

 

2. “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!”

 

A. Laverne DeFazio

B. Barry Goldwater

C. Mae West

 

3. “Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.”

 

A. Carol Burnett

B. Betty Friedan

C. Jacqueline Kennedy

 

4. “Being in a band you can wear whatever you want – it’s like an excuse for Halloween every day.”

 

A. Gwen Stefani

B. Frank Sinatra

C. Freddy Krueger

 

5. “Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.”

 

A. George Gershwin

B. Britney Spears

C. Robert Louis Stevenson

 

6. “Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.”

 

A. Maurice Sendak

B. William Shakespeare

C. Paula Deen

 

7. “The great question… which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?'”

 

A. Sigmund Freud

B. Larry King

C. Jack Nicholson

 

8. “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

 

A. Malcolm Muggeridge

B. Malcolm-Jamal Warner

C. Malcolm X

 

9. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

 

A. Al Roker

B. Dolly Parton

C. Buster Posey

 

10. “What’s wrong with this world is, it’s not finished yet. It is not completed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, ‘It is finished. We made it and it works.’”

 

A. Taylor Swift

B. Plato

C. William Faulkner

 

 

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

 

“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”― Terry Pratchett

 (Prachett, b. 1948, is a British author of fantasy novels.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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October 18, 2014 · 11:14 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #395

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published October 19, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

 

A. Pete Seeger

B. Abraham Maslow

C. Gerald Ford

 

2. “Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.”

 

A. Dick Cheney

B. Gene Autry

C. A. Philip Randolph

 

3. “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”

 

A. John McCain

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Peyton Manning

 

4. “Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives”

 

A. George Takei

B. George Washington

C. George Bernard Shaw

 

5. “’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”

 

A. Colonel Sanders

B. Rachael Ray

C. William Shakespeare

 

6. “We do not talk – we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”

 

A. George Will

B. Henry Miller

C. Thomas Paine

 

7. “There are more criminals out of jail than in jail, the only difference is that the majority of those who are out, are such skillful criminals that they know how to keep themselves out.”
A. Marcus Garvey

B. Mandy Patinkin

C. J.P. Morgan

 

8. “She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.”

 

A. Pamela Anderson

B. Maria Callas

C. Groucho Marx

 

9. “No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.”

 

A. Horace

B. Robert Frost

C. Dean Martin

 

10. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

 

A. Henry van Dyke

B. Dick Van Dyke

C. Jerry Van Dyke

 

 

 

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

 

“Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.”  ― Gary Jennings

 (Jennings, 1928-1999, was an American author of adult and children’s books.)

 

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September 21, 2014 · 1:24 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #391

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published September 21, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Our doubts are traitors,/  and make us lose the good we oft might win,/ by fearing to attempt.”

 

A. Leonard Cohen

B. Tom Hanks

C. William Shakespeare

 

2. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

 

A. Thomas Edison

B. Gabe Kotter

C. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

3. “The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”

 

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Lyndon Johnson

C. Dwayne Johnson

 

4. “It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

 

A. Hercules

B. Pharrell

C. Aesop

 

5. “A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

 

A. Rodney Dangerfield

B. H.L. Mencken

C. John Kerry

 

6. “The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.”

 

A. Marquis de Sade

B. Bill Mahr

C. Mamie Eisenhower

 

7. “Love and marriage, love and marriage/ Go together like a horse and carriage/ This I tell you brother/ You can’t have one without the other.”

 

A. Bob Marley

B. Sammy Cahn

C. Johnny Cash

 

8. “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

 

A. George Clooney

B. George Harrison

C. George Bernard Shaw

 

9. “It is the habit of mankind to mistake familiarity for accurate knowledge.”

 

A. Jim Rockford

B. John Stuart Mill

C. Hippocrates

 

10. “I stand for the square deal. But when I say that I am for a square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having the rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.”

 

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

 

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

 “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.” ― Charles Caleb Colton

 (Colton, 1780-1892, was an English cleric and writer.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 20, 2014 · 3:13 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #382

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published July 20, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

 

A. Carl Rogers

B. Will Rogers

C. Roy Rogers

 

2. “The mind is the most capricious of insects – flitting, fluttering.”

 

A. Virginia Woolf

B. Claude Monet

C. Ted Danson

 

3. “One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”

 

A. Betty Ford

B. Francis Ford Coppola

C. Henry Ford

 

4. “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

 

A. Edward R. Murrow

B. Shari Lewis

C. Luciano Pavarotti

 

5. “Our fast-food culture has brainwashed us to believe that nature is dangerous and outside ourselves. The easiest and most beautiful way to reconnect with nature is to reconnect with our food sources.”

 

A. Alice Waters

B. Ronald McDonald

C. Louis Leakey

 

6. “Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit.”

 

A. Bob Hope

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Lionel Messi

 

7. “I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.”

 

A. Alexander the Great

B. Carnac the Magnificent

C. Cato the Elder

 

8. “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

 

A. Rick Perry

B. William Shakespeare

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

9. “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”

 

A. Henny Youngman

B. Lindsay Lohan

C. Mahatma Gandhi

 

10. “I’ve always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals…. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?”

 

A. Tom Bodett

B. Anne Tyler

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

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

 “It is a consoling thought that gardens and their laws of birth and death endure, while political crises and panaceas appear only to vanish.” – Vida D. Scudder

 (Scudder, 1861-1954, was an American writer, educator and social reformer.)

 

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