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Advice & More December 2012

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

What's your quotation quotient?

1. "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Garrison Keillor

 

2. "There are two sorts of losers — the good loser, and the one who can't act."

A. Laurence J. Peter

B. Laurence Olivier

C. Lawrence Welk

 

3. “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”

A. Doris Day

B. Christopher Hitchens

C. Stephen Hawking

 

4. "Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact."

A. H.G. Wells

B. Bing Crosby

C. Will Robinson

 

5. "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."

A. Barack Obama

B. Rudolf Hess

C. Noam Chomsky

 

6. "I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth — I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace."

A. Henry James

B. Jesse James

C. LeBron James

 

7. "Women are a problem, but...they're the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with."

A. Warren Buffett

B. Warren Beatty

C. Warren G. Harding

 

8. "There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable."

A. Suze Orman

B. C.S. Lewis

C. Mitt Romney

 

9. "Put on your yarmulke,/ Here comes Hanukkah!/So much funukah,/ To celebrate Hanukkah!/ Hanukkah is the festival of lights./ Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights."

A. Adam Sandler

B. Pat Buchanan

C. Benjamin Netanyahu

 

10. "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."

A. Forrest Gump

B. Fareed Zakaria

C. George Carlin

 


 

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

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:

"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it." - Demetri Martin

(This stand-up comic is often seen on Comedy Central, and hosted his own show, "Important Things With Demetri Martin.")

 

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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