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Advice & More May 2013

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

What’s Your QQ?

1. "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

A. Soren Kierkegaard

B. Lewis Carroll

C. Benjamin Button

 

2. “If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”

A. Frank Lloyd Wright

B. Orville Wright

C. Steven Wright

 

3. "In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination."

A. Rick Warren

B. Mark Twain

C. Ellen DeGeneres

 

4. "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."

A. Joseph Conrad

B. Lindsay Graham

C. Carnac the Magnificent

 

5. "A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride."

A. Peter Max

B. Max Schmeling

C. Max Lerner

 

6. "Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

A. Timothy Leary

B. Stephen Vincent Benet

C. Vladimir Lenin

 

7. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

A. Boris Karloff

B. Vince Vaughn

C. Thornton Wilder

 

8. “Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.”

A. Ravi Shankar

B. John Goodman

C. Arnold Palmer

 

9. "We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."

A. Arne Duncan

B. Julius Erving

C. Margaret Mead

 

10. "I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me.The poor little kids."

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Dolly Parton

C. Joe Biden

 


 

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

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:

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity." - Tom Stoppard. (Stoppard, b.1937, is a Czech-born British playwright.)

 

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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