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Advice & More November 2013

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."  ~Meister Eckhart.    

1. "On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence." 

A. Renee Descartes

B. William Jennings Bryan

C. Charlie Chaplin

 

2. "If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me."

A. Jimmy Buffett

B. Ringo Starr

C. Alexander Graham Bell

 

3. "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Will Rogers

C. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

 

4. "The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes."

A. Mark Twain

B. Roseanne Barr

C. Agatha Christie

 

5. “Wouldn’t this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive.”

A. Brooks Robinson

B. Albert Brooks

C. Brooks Brothers

 

6. "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

A. Isaac Newton

B. Elizabeth Taylor

C. Albert Einstein

 

7. "Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

A. John Kenneth Galbraith

B. Your co-workers

C. George Costanza

 

8. “When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.”

A. Theodore Roosevelt

B. Thomas Friedman

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

9. "A witty saying proves nothing."

A. Voltaire

B. Yogi Berra

C. Charles Dickens

 

10. "What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets.  I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?"

A. Muhammad Ali

B. Erma Bombeck

C. Twiggy

 


 

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

Scoring: (number correct)              

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:
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."  ~Meister Eckhart. (Eckhart, c. 1260-c. 1327, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic.)

 

Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, CA and can be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Enjoy more quizzes at quotationquotient.com.

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