A quiz for the upcoming week

[observer]

Who said:

1. Speak softly and carry a big stick.

2. Don’t ask what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

3. I don’t drink water. Do you know what fish do in water?

4. No man is an island entire of itself. Each man is a piece of the continent; a part of the main…….. Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

5. Fuddle duddle

6. Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

7. The time has come the …….. said, to talk of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings.

8. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

9. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

10. From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

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#5 His son just won a boxing match last nite

[observer]

Did Justin win?? I hadn't heard. He didn't LOOK like he'd stand much of a chance against the much beefier senator!

[retired2]

The match was stopped in the third round. The other guy was a blackbelt.
Go figure

[retired2]

#1 - A hockey player

[observer]

#1 - A hockey player

NO!

[gale force]

1. Teddy Rosevelt
2. John F Kennedy
3. W. C. Fields
4. Prime Minister Trudeau
7. Walrus
8. Winston Churchill

How many did I get????

[observer]

You answered 6 and you got 6 correct, gale force. Way to go!

[observer]

OK - a few clues. One of them was a BIG singer in maybe the 40's or early 50's.

One was an English poet, who often wrote sonnets.

One was a despot.

One was an American humorist.

[gale force]

6. Mark Twain?
10. Frank Sinatra?

[observer]

6 IS Mark Twain, but 10 is NOT Frank Sinatra. !0 is a female.

But you ARE on a roll, gale force. Keep at it!

[kishgo]

I still like to use google to find the answers!

[observer]

OK to google - if you really can't wait - as long as you don't post a "googled" answer!!!

[observer]

The "Big" singer is Kate ???

The poet is John ????

The despot was Russian

[gale force]

Thank goodness for those new clues!!
Singer Kate Smith?
Poet John Dunne
Russian despot Lennin?

[observer]

2 out of 3 right, gale. Kate Smith and John Donne.

The Russian despot is the OTHER one!

[gale force]

The Other Russian despot??? Would it be Stalin?

[observer]

There you go - got all of them!

[gale force]

Do I get a prize? Can't figure out why no one else got in on this.

[observer]

Can you feel the pat on the back? About the only prize I've got in my repertoire at the mioment!

[gale force]

Sometimes my sense of wit outruns my sense. Sorry. Didn't mean to sound like I was looking for any thing. LOL

[observer]

Wit appreciated. No apologies necessary!

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