We’re on the back end of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, an apt moment for a quiz. Wait! Come back! It’s a wee multiple-choice quiz, where you pick the correct political leaders — fictional or real, foreign or domestic, deceased or living — responsible for the following 10 quotations. The words themselves? Nothing legendary.
No “four score” or “it takes a village.” That’d be too easy. Just a few items plainspoken and semi-obscure enough to make you feel smart if you get it right, and “oh, like I’d know that” if you don’t.
Pick who said what, and good luck. Answers at the bottom. Enough preamble.
To quote Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: “Democracy is talking itself to death.” And he said that a while ago! 1. “There are now two pieces: one six miles wide, the other a mile and a half.
” A. President Donald Trump, discussing his never-completed wall along the Mexican/U.S.
border B. President Tom Beck, regarding a troublesome comet in the 1998 movie “Deep Impact” C. President John Tyler, on the 1839 Aroostook War’s ancillary territorial dispute between citizens of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada Presidential candidate Donald Trump takes in applause during Thursday’s Republican National Convention session at Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee.
(John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) 2. “I don’t like to practice ahead of time what I’m going to say.
” A. The unnamed president in the 1964 movie “Fail Safe” B. Geraldine Fer.