“He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.”
– Joe Queenan, channeling a Quayleism in “The Vice-Presidency Is a Terrible Thing to Waste.”
Grab a pen or pencil and some paper and take the quiz, and no cheating with The Google. Which are actual quotes from Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and which are from a beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity? (Answers below the fold.)
1. “I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
2. “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
3. “Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the office of the vice president.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
4. “Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you’re not always the solution.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
5. “Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
6. “It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a school teacher.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
7. “Well, I’d rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it’s natural. But being smart you can learn… you can learn, um, a lot of things… a lot of things from the experience… you can learn from a lot of things being smart.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
8. “Maybe he’s for everything as long as it’s not helped forward by the government. Maybe he’s for everything if the free market takes care of it. I don’t know.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
9. “We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
10. “We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
11. “So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
12. “I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
13. “We are truly the land of the great. From the rock shores of… Hawaii… to the beautiful sandy beaches of… Hawaii… America is our home.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
14. “I would discuss with him having mandatory sex education classes, because if students decide to have sex, they should be practicing safe sex. However, in my opinion, abstinence is always the best way.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
15. “[T]he western part of Pennsylvania is very, uh, Midwestern, and the eastern part is more east.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Beauty pageant contestant, fashion model or airhead celebrity.
(Answers below the fold.)
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The ‘Who Said It’ Quiz for 2/22/2012
Match the quote with the right name or source. If you’re correct on all of them, give yourself a big pat on the back!
1. “Critics on the right worried that [the president] was a Communist, a socialist or the tool of a … conspiracy. Critics on the left complained his policies didn’t go far enough.”
To which president does the quote refer:
A. Barack Obama
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
D. Harry S Truman
2. “The idea is that the state doesn’t have rights to limit individuals’ wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.”
Who said it?
A. Newt Gingrich
B. Rick Santorum
C. Adolf Hitler
D. Benito Mussolini
3. “On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.”
A. John F. Kennedy
B. Barry Goldwater
C. Bill Clinton
D. Barack Obama
4. “The preservation of the family with many children is a matter of biological concept and national feeling. The family with many children must be preserved … because it is a highly valuable, indispensable part of the … nation. Valuable and indispensable not only because it alone guarantees the maintenance of the population in the future but because it is the strongest basis of national morality and national culture … The preservation of this family form is a necessity of national and cultural politics … it considers unborn life as sacrosanct. For the legalization of abortion is at variance with the function of the family, which is to produce children and would lead to the definite destruction of the family with many children.”
A. Ron Paul newsletter in the 1990s
B. Rick Santorum campaign press release in 2011
C. Family Research Council email in 2009
D. A Nazi newspaper in the 1930s
5. “Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not [always] the most wise depository of the public interests.”
A. John F. Kennedy
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
D. Dwight D. Eisenhower
6. “The liberal court found Him [Jesus] guilty of false offenses and sentenced Him to death, all because He changed the hearts and minds of men with an army of 12. His death reset the clock of time. Never before and not since has there ever been such a perfect conservative.”
A. Rick Santorum
B. Sarah Palin
C. Rick Perry
D. Herman Cain
7. “Stupid people are ruining America.”
A. Rick Santorum
B. Sarah Palin
C. Rick Perry
D. Herman Cain
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