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Advice & More December 2013

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." - Harlan Miller.   

1. "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas."

A. Burt Bacharach

B. Irving Berlin

C. Strom Thurmond

 

2. "Now I'm certainly in favor of all the gun control we can get -- but we better reload our young people's hearts and spirits at the same time."

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Arianna Huffington

C. Sitting Bull

 

3. "Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."

A. Phyllis Diller

B. Charles Dickens

C. Ward Cleaver

 

4. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

A. Margaret Thatcher

B. Emile Zola

C. Dick Tracy

 

5. “When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

A. Brian Williams

B. Serena Williams

C. Tennessee Williams

 

6. "To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year." 

A. E. B. White

B. Sam Walton

C. Joe Lieberman

 

7. “So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else’s.”

A. Bilbo Baggins

B. Robert Frost

C. Friedrich Nietzsche

 

8. "It is not half so important to know as to feel, when introducing a young child to the natural world. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

A. Rachel Carson

B. Johnny Carson

C. Kit Carson

 

9. "Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call."

A. George W. Bush

B. Richard Lewis

C. Sam Houston

 

10. "The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband."

A. Corporal Klinger

B. Dr. Phil McGraw

C. Joan Rivers

 


 

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

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:

"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." - Harlan Miller. (Miller, 1897-1968, wrote his "Over the Coffee" column in the Des Moines Register for nearly four decades.)

 

Arlen  Grossman lives in Monterey, California 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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