Wednesday Afternoon Political Quote Quiz — Guess Which Americans Made These Gaffes
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 31, 2011
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My dad, Russ, recently emailed me this political quote quiz of gaffes and speech oddities. I’ve tweaked and expanded it a bit.
The rules to taking this quiz are simple. Read each lamentable quote and guess which American said it from the five choices given.
(1) “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”
A. Barack Obama
B. Joe Biden
C. Sarah Palin
D. Anthony Weiner
E. George W. Bush
(2) “It is wonderful to be back in Oregon. Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.”
A. Joe Biden
B. Hillary Clinton
C. George W. Bush
D. Sarah Palin
E. Barack Obama
(3) “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
A. George W. Bush
B. Joe Biden
C. Donald Trump
D. Herman Cain
E. Barack Obama
(4) “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about. It… it, it would cost about the same as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years, it would cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to. It, it would cost us about the same as it would cost for about, hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”
A. Ron Paul
B. Barack Obama
C. Rudy Guiliani
D. Paul Ryan
E. Rick Perry
(5) “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.”
A. Marco Rubio
B. George W. Bush
C. Tim Pawlenty
D. Barack Obama
E. Sarah Palin
(6) “I bowled a 129. It’s like – it was like the Special Olympics, or something.”
A. Rick Santorum
B. Chris Christie
C. Barack Obama
D. Sarah Palin
E. Jon Huntsman
(7) “Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
E. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(8) “Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.”
A. Michele Bachmann
B. Mitt Romney
C. Jim DeMint
D. Barack Obama
E. Rick Perry
(9) “It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.”
A. Newt Gingrich
B. John McCain
C. Jeb Bush
D. Michele Bachmann
E. Barack Obama
(10) “The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Mike Huckabee
C. Barack Obama
D. Ron Paul
E. Harry Reid
(11) “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.”
A. Sarah Palin
B. Joe Lieberman
C. Barack Obama
D. Bobby Jindal
E. Lt. Col Allen West
(12) “Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.”
A. Herman Cain
B. Sarah Palin
C. Joe Biden
D. Barack Obama
E. Newt Gingrich
(13) “The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
A. Harry Reid
B. Barack Obama
C. Thad McCotter
D. Sarah Palin
E. Gary Johnson
(14) “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
A. Scott Brown
B. Barack Obama
C. Sarah Palin
D. Lt. Col. Allen West
E. Rick Perry
(15) “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”
A. George W. Bush
B. Rick Santorum
C. Sarah Palin
D. Barack Obama
E. Nancy Pelosi
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You’ve likely figured out by now this was a trick quiz. All of the correct answers are the same person.
Each of these cringeworthy quotes were made by Barack Obama.
Give yourself a pat on the back if you got them all right. Heck, give yourself a pat on the back even if you didn’t.
Sound bite of Quiz Quote #1:
Image of Let me be absolutely clear
It just never gets old…
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