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Advice & More September 2012

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

What's your quotation quotient?

1. "I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."

A. Leonard Nimoy

B. W. Somerset Maugham

C. Dr. Christiaan Barnard

 

2. "Investment banking has become to productive enterprise in this country what mud wrestling is to the performing arts."

A. Mark Russell

B. Maria Callas

C. Milton Friedman

 

3. “An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.”

A. Danny Thomas

B. Dylan Thomas

C. Marlo Thomas

 

4. “I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.”

A. O.J. Simpson

B. John Roberts

C. Roy Cohn

 

5. "I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace."

A. Albert Einstein

B. Leon Panetta

C. Genghis Khan

 

6. "There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time."

A. Alexander Hamilton

B. Jerry Brown

C. Coco Chanel

 

7. "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

A. Winston Churchill

B. Paul Hogan

C. Neville Chamberlain

 

8. "A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one-and-a-half times his own weight in other people's patience."

A. Kate Middleton

B. John Updike

C. Dr. Robert Atkins

 

9. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary..."

A. Edgar Rice Burroughs

B. Edgar Cayce

C. Edgar Allan Poe

 

10. "What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before."

A. Eve

B. Mark Twain

C. David Letterman

 

 


 

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

"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on."
~ Beryl Pfizer

(Pfizer produced NBC's Today show in the late 1950s.)

 

Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, CA, and writes a weekly quotation quiz for the Monterey County Herald. 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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