What’s Your QQ*? #381


(Published July 13, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)




A. Redd Foxx

B. Jane Fonda

C. George Will




A. Pope John Paul II

B. Raymond Chandler

C. A. A. Milne


3. “The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”


A. Karl Marx

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Edward R. Murrow


4. “The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.”


A. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

B. Lindsey Graham

C. Jim Carrey




A. Leonardo da Vinci

B. Jessica Simpson

C. Chiang Kai-shek




A. Confucius

B. Erle Stanley Gardner

C. Rudyard Kipling




A. Harry Potter

B. Beatrix Potter

C. Henry F. Potter


8. “The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.”        


A. H. L. Mencken

B. Warren G. Harding

C. Buddy Ebsen




A. Ulysses S. Grant

B. Prince Philip

C. Louis Pasteur


10. “Humanity i love you because/ when you’re hard up you pawn your/

   intelligence to buy a drink.”


A. Dean Martin

B. Omar Khayyam

C. E.E. Cummings



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


Scoring:              10–QQQQ = Quote-Master  

(number correct)    8-9–QQQ = Scholar                      

                                  6-7–QQ = Literate

                                 4-5–Q = Semi-Literate

                                 0-3–No Q=Quote-Dunce



 “Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?” – Elias Canetti

 (Canetti, 1905-1994, a Bulgarian-born writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.)


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