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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)

Questions without Answers

Format index

 

1.

K.

“Football and cookery are the two most important subjects in the country.”

 

2.

F. “I want to be alone.”

 

Delia Smith K  

 

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”

 

Enoch Powell O  

 

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.”

6.

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.”

 

John Lennon T  

 

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”

 

 

 

L S Lowry P  

 

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.

 

Jane Fonda C  

 

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.”

 

 

Marianne Faithfull E  

 

Thomas Beecham R  

13.

N.

An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Attlee got out

 

 

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

 

Winston Churchill N  

 

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.”

 

Madonna A  

 

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.

 

Frankie Howerd I  

 

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.”

 

Kenneth Tynan G  

 

Kim Philby D