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Advice & More November 2012

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

What's your quotation quotient?

1. "English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say."

A. Garrison Keillor

B. Arnold Schwarzenegger

C. Edgar Allen Poe

 

2. "It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity."

A. Attila the Hun

B. Joe Montana

C. Dag Hammarskjold

 

3. "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

A. George Washington

B. Napoleon

C. Pope Benedict XVI

 

4. "Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."

A. Edith Head

B. Edith Bunker

C. Edith Wharton

 

5. "Picture yourself in a boat on a river/ With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/ Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly/A girl with kaleidoscope eyes."

A. Lewis Carroll

B. The Beatles

C. David Bowie

 

6. "No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people."

A. Eugene Debs

B. Ulysses S. Grant

C. John McCain

 

7. “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”

A. Jack Benny

B. Pearl S. Buck

C. Ted Kaczynski

 

8. "I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners — two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime."

A. P.J. O'Rourke

B. Sinead O'Conner

C. Shaquille O'Neal

 

9. "The gates of hell are open, night and day. Smooth the descent, and easy the way."

A. Liberace

B. Pink

C. Virgil

 

10. "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep,/ And miles to go before I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep."

A. Robert Downey, Jr.

B. Robert Frost

C. Robert Redford

 

 


 

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

"America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top." - Charlie King (folk singer and activist.)

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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