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Advice & More August 2012

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

What's your quotation quotient?

1. “Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”

A. William Shakespeare

B. Woody Allen

C. Phil Mickelson

 

2. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

A. Samuel Adams

B. Bo Derek

C. Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

3. “Anyways, I've got my opinion, and I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."

A. Miss Piggy

B. Mark Twain

C. Walt Whitman

 

4. “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

A. Art Linkletter

B. Adele

C. Robert Heinlein

 

5. "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

A. Aldous Huxley

B. Sean Hannity

C. Jeremy Lin

 

6. “I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”

A. Carl Sandburg

B. Carl Sagan

C. Carl Levin

 

7. "The difference between what we are doing and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world's problems."

A. Bing Crosby

B. John Boehner

C. Mahatma Gandhi

 

8. “If you believe in forever, then life is just a one night stand. If there's a rock and roll heaven, well, you know they got a hell of a band.”

A. The Righteous Brothers

B. The Blues Brothers

C. The Marx Brothers

 

9. “Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions; conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.”

A. Mort Sahl

B. William F. Buckley

C. Karl Marx

 

10. "Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few."

A. Paula Deen

B. Rodney Dangerfield

C. Cato The Elder

 

 


 

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

Scoring: How many did you correctly identify?

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:

“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.” – Rebecca West (1892-1983, a British novelist, journalist, literary critic, and feminist.)

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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