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Quiz about Quotes From Statesmen And Politicians

Quotes From Statesmen And Politicians Quiz

Politicians and statesmen do a lot of talking. Sometimes what they say becomes part of history. This quiz deals with such 'historic', or at least 'remarkable', words.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
53,008

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
3119

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What did Winston Churchill have to offer the day he became Prime Minister? Hint

Blood, hard labour, tears and sweat

Blood, pain, tears and sweat

Blood, toil, tears and sweat

Blood, toil, tears and sacrifice

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Question 2 of 10

2. What did Sir Winston say in a speech on 14 July 1941, speaking as if he were addressing Adolf Hitler? "You do your worst, and we will do our ______?" Hint

Best

Most terrible

Even worse

Bravest

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Question 3 of 10

3. What sort of communism did Alexander Dubcek promote in 1968? Hint

Communism for the people, and by the people.

Communism with no commies

Communism with a human face

Communism without fear

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Question 4 of 10

4. How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt define a radical? "A man with both his feet planted firmly in the ________?" Hint

Mud

Air

Sand

Water

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Question 5 of 10

5. What was, in the opinion of Franklin D Roosevelt, the only thing the Americans had to fear? Hint

Fear itself

Too much optimism

Complacency

A war in Europe

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Question 6 of 10

6. With what remark did Joseph Stalin minimize the importance of the Roman-Catholic Church and its Pope? By asking how many _______? Hint

Divisions the Pope had

Rifles the Pope had

Tanks the Pope had

Swiss Guards the Pope had

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which of the Russian communist leaders made the remark that an 'ally had to be watched just like an enemy'? Hint

Trotsky

Khrushchev

Stalin

Lenin

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which U.S. president said 'The buck stops here'? Hint

Dwight D Eisenhower

Harry S Truman

Jimmy Carter

Richard Nixon

9. Which 20th century politician said all of this: (a) 'I love being at the centre of things. (b) 'I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.' (c) No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions, and no money.'? Hint

Margaret Thatcher

Tony Blair

Ronald Reagan

Richard Nixon

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who promoted the idea that you should "speak softly, but carry a big stick"? Hint

Theodore Roosevelt

George W Bush

George H W Bush

Ronald Reagan

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What did Winston Churchill have to offer the day he became Prime Minister?

Answer: Blood, toil, tears and sweat

Another famous remark made by Sir Winston was that 'an 'Iron Curtain' had descended across the Continent'. It was not made in the British Parliament, but at Fulton in the U.S.A., 1946. Nobody can deny he had some sense of future evolutions!

2. What did Sir Winston say in a speech on 14 July 1941, speaking as if he were addressing Adolf Hitler? "You do your worst, and we will do our ______?"

Answer: Best

Churchill understood the British people very well. He also said "They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are; who like to be told the worst."

3. What sort of communism did Alexander Dubcek promote in 1968?

Answer: Communism with a human face

Leonid Brezhnev did not quite agree, and crushed the so-called Prague Spring. There soon appeared on the walls of Prague a graffiti: 'Ex Oriente Lux'.- 'The clever chaps come from the East!'

4. How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt define a radical? "A man with both his feet planted firmly in the ________?"

Answer: Air

5. What was, in the opinion of Franklin D Roosevelt, the only thing the Americans had to fear?

Answer: Fear itself

Ronald Reagan too occasionally had a witty moment. When he had to be operated on, he told the surgeons: 'Please, assure me that you are all Republicans.'

6. With what remark did Joseph Stalin minimize the importance of the Roman-Catholic Church and its Pope? By asking how many _______?

Answer: Divisions the Pope had

Stalin made this remark when a French politician (Pierre Laval )had suggested that Stalin should introduce freedom of religion for the Catholic Church in Russia in exchange for moral support against Hitler.

7. Which of the Russian communist leaders made the remark that an 'ally had to be watched just like an enemy'?

Answer: Trotsky

Of the inventors of a political system that did not trust the large majority of its own citizens, such views could be expected and are hardly surprising indeed.

8. Which U.S. president said 'The buck stops here'?

Answer: Harry S Truman

Other quotations from Truman:
'If you cannot stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen'
'A statesman is a politician who has been dead ten or fifteen years'
'It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher

She also said 'Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so' and 'WE are the peace movement'.

10. Who promoted the idea that you should "speak softly, but carry a big stick"?

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

He said this in a speech at Minnesota State Fair on 2 Sept. 1901. Dominic Guzman, the founder of the Dominicans, seems to have thought along similar lines when he said that if gentle methods did not help to make the Albigenses change their minds, "blows might avail".

Source: Author flem-ish

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