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Advice & More October 2013

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”  Peter De Vries

1. “Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”

A. Bill Clinton

B. Barbara Walters

C. H.L. Mencken

 

2. "Why should I care what part of my body I reveal? Why is one part more evil than another? Is not all body and soul an instrument through which the artist expresses his inner message of beauty?"

A. Isadora Duncan

B. Daniel Radcliffe

C. Julia Roberts

 

3. “I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.”

A. Frank Rich

B. Frank Lloyd Wright

C. Frank Zappa

 

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

A. Lewis Carroll

B. Winston Churchill

C. Lindsey Graham

 

5. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

A. Victor Hugo

B. Mick Jagger

C. Milton Berle

 

6. "Soylent Green is people!"

A. Rod Serling

B. Anthony Hopkins

C. Charlton Heston

 

7. "I bought a wastepaper basket and carried it home in a paper bag. And when I got home, I put the paper bag in the wastepaper basket."

A. Chuck Schumer

B. Lily Tomlin

C. Big Bird

 

8. "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone."

A. Alec Baldwin

B. James Baldwin

C. Tammy Baldwin

 

9. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Mitt Romney

C. Mahatma Gandhi

 

10. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

A. Marie Curie

B. Walter Cronkite        

C. Elton John

 


 

Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-C , 4-B , 5-A , 6-C , 7-B , 8-B , 9-C , 10-A

Scoring:              

10 – QQQQ = Quote-Master   

8-9 – QQQ = Scholar                      

6-7 – QQ = Literate

4-5 – Q = Semi-Literate

0-3 – No Q = Quote-Dunce

 

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”  Peter De Vries. (DeVries, 1910-1993, was an American editor and novelist.)

Arlen  Grossman lives in Monterey, California. Enjoy more quizzes at quotationquotient.com. Comments and suggestions are welcomed at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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