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Advice & More June 2014

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

"There are some things that should never be mentioned in polite society - for instance, the doings of Polite Society."

1. “A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

A. Mark Zuckerberg

B. Mark Twain

C. Mark Cuban

 

2. “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”

A. Sandra Day O'Conner

B. Richard Dreyfuss

C. Gloria Steinem

 

3. “There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.”

A. Anwar Sadat

B. Marcia Brady

C. Robert E. Lee

 

4. “A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”

A. Jim Morrison

B. Seth Meyers

C. Ogden Nash

 

5. “Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”

A. Jon Stewart

B. Norman Vincent Peale

C. Joe Biden

 

6. “I hold it true, whate'er befall;/  I feel it, when I sorrow most;/  Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”

A. Horatio Alger

B. Laura Ingalls Wilder

C. Alfred Tennyson

 

7. "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me."        

A. Henny Youngman

B. Arnold Schwarzenegger

C. Jay Leno

 

8. “There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”

A. Susan Sarandon

B. Susan B. Anthony

C. Susan Boyle

 

9. “Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock." 

A. Bruce Springsteen

B. Henry Ward Beecher

C. L. Frank Baum

 

10. "This is the short and the long of it."

A. Herman Melville

B. Randy Newman

C. William Shakespeare



 
Answers: 1-B, 2-C , 3-A , 4-C , 5-A , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 9-B , 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:
 
"There are some things that should never be mentioned in polite society - for instance, the doings of Polite Society." - Elbert Hubbard. (Hubbard, 1856-1915, was an American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher. He died aboard the Lusitania during WWI.)

 

Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, CA, and welcomes comments 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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