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January 9, 2015 · 5:28 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #406

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published January 4, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

 

A. Erich Fromm

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

C. Dr. Benjamin Spock

 

2. “Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”

 

A. Katie Couric

B. Karl Marx

C. Erica Jong

 

3. “He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”

 

A. Thomas Paine

B. Colin Powell

C. Mickey Spillane

 

4. “’Abroad,’ that large home of ruined reputations.”

 

A. George Washington

B. George Eliot

C. George Foreman

 

5. “I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.”

 

A. Charles Schulz

B. Julia Ward Howe

C. Robert Frost

 

6. “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”

 

A. Charles Chaplin

B. Arnold Schwarzenegger

C. Dan Quayle

 

7. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

 

A. B. F. Skinner

B. Roger Bannister

C. Confucius

 

8. “The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”

 

A. Sally Field

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. John Updike

 

9. “Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

 

A. Jennifer Aniston

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Pocahontas

 

10. “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: ‘This was their finest hour.’”

 

A. David Cameron

B. Paul McCartney

C. Winston Churchill

 

 

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

 “Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.” ―Zelda Fitzgerald

 (Fitzgerald, 1900-1948, was an American novelist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 16, 2014 · 9:48 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #399

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published November 16, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”

 

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Harpo Marx

C. Mitch Albom

 

2. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

 

A. Ernest Borgnine

B. Frank & Ernest

C. Ernest Hemingway

 

3. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

 

A. Winston Churchill

B. Bill Clinton

C. Ray Magliozzi

 

4. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”

 

A. Bill Maher

B. Mother Teresa

C. Barack Obama

 

5. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

 

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Pat Robertson

C. Jimmy Carter

 

6. “I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”

 

A. Mitch McConnell

B. Natalie Maines

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

 

7. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

 

A. Napoleon Hill

B. Napoleon Dynamite

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

8. “Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

 

A. Henry Kissinger

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Genghis Khan

 

9. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

 

A. Pablo Picasso

B. Carl Jung

C. Woodrow Wilson

 

10. “When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

 

A. Patrick Henry

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Perry Mason

 

 

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

 “People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” – Neil Gaiman

 (Gaiman, b. 1960, is an English author in various genres.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 8, 2014 · 2:27 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #398

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published November 9, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones”

 

A. Renée Zellweger

B. John Lennon

C. Christopher Columbus

 

2. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

 

A. Thurgood Marshall

B. Stephen Colbert

C. Aristotle

 

3. “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”

 

A. Count Basie

B. Arthur Fonzarelli

C. Albert Einstein

 

4. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

 

A. Plato

B. Marcel Marceau

C. Edmund Hillary

 

5. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”  

 

A. Betsy Ross

B. Winston Churchill

C. Vincent Van Gogh

 

6. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”

 

A. Margaret Sanger

B. Margaret Mitchell

C. Margaret Thatcher

 

7. “I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

 

A. James K. Polk

B. Donald Trump

C. Henry David Thoreau

 

8. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”

 

A. John Maynard Keynes

B. Bill Nye

C. Orville Redenbacher

 

9. “She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.”

 

A. Gypsy Rose Lee

B. Matthew McConaughey

C. Madison Bumgarner

 

10. “The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”

 

A. Jerry Brown

B. Napoleon Bonaparte

C. Andy Warhol

 

 

 

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

 

“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steve Furtick

 (Furtick, b. 1980, is a North Carolina pastor and author.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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