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31/10/2016 | Quote/Unquote |
Pictures of 20 famous people - past and present - appear in the 20 pictures. Alongside each picture is a well-known quotation taken from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations attributed to one of the other 19 people. For each picture identify: a) the name of the person depicted b) the quotation correctly belonging to that person (using the letter tagged to each quotation) |
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K. |
“Football and cookery are the two most important subjects in the country.”
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2. |
F. | “I want to be alone.” | ||
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Delia Smith | K |
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Greta Garbo | F | ||
3. |
O. | “For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea.” |
4. |
B. | “History is more or less bunk” | ||
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Enoch Powell | O |
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Henry Ford | B | ||
5. |
T. | “Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you just rattle your jewellery.” |
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Q. | “Natural selection has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.” | ||
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John Lennon | T |
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Richard Dawkins | Q | ||
7. |
P. | “I am a simple man and I use simple materials.” |
8. |
J. |
“That’s the fastest time ever run – but it’s not as fast as the world record”
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L S Lowry | P |
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David Coleman | J | ||
9. |
C. | “A man has every season, while a woman only has the right to spring.” |
10. |
M. | “I never cared for fashion much. Amusing little seams and witty little pleats. It was the girls I liked.” | ||
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Jane Fonda | C |
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David Bailey | M | ||
11. |
E. | “Maybe the most you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.” |
12. |
R. |
(of the harpsichord) “Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.”
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Marianne Faithfull | E |
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Thomas Beecham | R | ||
13. |
N. |
“An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Attlee got out”
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14. |
H. | “The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as a Madonna or Mary Magdalene” | ||
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Winston Churchill | N |
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Shirley Williams | H | ||
15. |
A. | “Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of the devil. That means I can definitely identify with her.” |
16. |
L. | “The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.” | ||
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Madonna | A |
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A J P Taylor | L | ||
17. |
I. | “It’s television you see. If you’re not on the thing every week the public think you are either dead or deported.” |
18. |
S. | “Money couldn’t buy friends but you get a better class of enemy.” | ||
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Frankie Howerd | I |
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Spike Milligan | S | ||
19. |
G. | “A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.” |
20. |
D. | “To betray you must at first belong.” | ||
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Kenneth Tynan | G |
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Kim Philby | D |