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What Did They Say ? Trivia Quiz

Check whether you could complete the missing parts in these quotations. You get four possible options.- As great minds think alike, you certainly have a real chance to find what these wits originally said , thought or referred to.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
53,148

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
3738

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Woman without a man is like a fish _____? Hint

out of the water

without a bicycle

without an aquarium

without a tail

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Question 2 of 10

2. If you talk to God it's prayer ; if God talks to you _____? Hint

you better pinch your arm to see if you are awake or asleep

it's high time you get a breathalyzer

it's schizophrenia

you have a good reason to build a chapel

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Question 3 of 10

3. A critic is a man who knows the way but ______? Hint

prefers to work in a garage

doesn't know where the petrol stations are

can't drive a car

but is afraid to go astray

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Question 4 of 10

4. A man falls in love through his eyes , a woman through ________? Hint

her stomach

her ears

her brain

her dreams

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Question 5 of 10

5. But if God wanted us to think just with our wombs why did he give us _____? Hint

heads

a brain

the Gospel

philosophers

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Question 6 of 10

6. The Churches must learn humility as well as _______? Hint

advertise it

glorify it

teach it

sanctify it

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Question 7 of 10

7. A husband is what is left of a lover , after ______? Hint

the honeymoon is over

the sentimentality has gone

the nerve has been extracted

the wedding is over

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Question 8 of 10

8. What did political power grow out of in the views of Mao Tse-Tung? Hint

a prosperous economy

permanent cultural revolution

the solidarity of the people

the barrel of a gun

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Question 9 of 10

9. What did the same 'Great Chairman' call a paper tiger? Hint

capitalism

the U.S. Marines

the atom bomb

the U.S. economy

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Question 10 of 10

10. Though life is the other way round: 'Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about _____? Hint

being a family

having children

running a business company

earning an income

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Woman without a man is like a fish _____?

Answer: without a bicycle

Attributed to Gloria Steinem. - Popular in feminist circles.

2. If you talk to God it's prayer {;} if God talks to you _____?

Answer: it's schizophrenia

Thomas Szasz in 'The Second Sin' 1973. Typical example of what the French call "un bon mot" in which truth is somewhat sacrificed to the kick of producing "a witticism". Definitely not "le mot juste" to describe either prayer or schizophrenes.

3. A critic is a man who knows the way but ______?

Answer: can't drive a car

Kenneth Tynan, New York Times Magazine, 9 Jan.1966

4. A man falls in love through his eyes , a woman through ________?

Answer: her ears

Woodrow Wyatt, 1919 in 'To the Point 1981'

5. But if God wanted us to think just with our wombs why did he give us _____?

Answer: a brain

Clare Booth Luce, 1903

6. The Churches must learn humility as well as _______?

Answer: teach it

George Bernard Shaw in 'Saint Joan' (1924)

7. A husband is what is left of a lover , after ______?

Answer: the nerve has been extracted

Helen Rowland in 'A Guide to Men' 1922 p.12

8. What did political power grow out of in the views of Mao Tse-Tung?

Answer: the barrel of a gun

On another occasion the Great Helmsman decided to 'let a hundred flowers blossom' , but the experiment soon had to be laid off because of too much chaos in the Chinese garden.

9. What did the same 'Great Chairman' call a paper tiger?

Answer: the atom bomb

10. Though life is the other way round: 'Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about _____?

Answer: having children

David Lodge :'The British Museum is Falling Down' (1965), chapter four.

Source: Author flem-ish

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