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Advice & More January 2013

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

What’s Your Quotation Quotient?

1. "I am now here in Congress... I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure."

A. Davy Crockett

B. Sarah Palin

C. Abraham Lincoln

2. "Money often costs too much."

A. Tim Geithner

B. Jed Clampett

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “Oh! what a tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to deceive!”

A. Sir Edmund Hillary

B. Sir Walter Scott

C. Sir Francis Drake

4. "A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."

A. Henry Ford

B. Donald Trump

C. Martha Washington

5. "Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive."

A. Ogden Nash

B. Billy Ray Cyrus

C. Kathie Lee Gifford

6. "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. "

A. John Adams

B. Grizzly Adams

C. Ansel Adams

7. "I've been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it's because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago."

A. William Shatner

B. DeForest Kelly

C. George Takei

8. "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

A. Jerry Springer

B. Simon Cowell

C. Herbert Spencer

9. “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”

A. Justin Bieber

B. Barbra Streisand

C. Chaz Bono

10. "Take my wife...please!"

A. Jerry Stiller

B. Rodney Dangerfield

C. Henny Youngman

 


 

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

"The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack."- Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine. (Madame Swetchine, 1782-1857, was a Russian/French literary figure.)

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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