Quotes About Countries And Their People

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1. Which British Prime Minister called Britain "the grit in the European oyster"? Sir Winston Churchill John Major Margaret Thatcher Edward Heath

2. Which country was defined as "A mistake, a gigantic mistake" (Sigmund Freud); "The land of permanent waves and impermanent wives" (Brendan Behan) and " A large friendly dog in a small room, who everytime it wags its tail knocks over a chair"( Arnold Toynbee)? Russia U.S.A. China France

3. Which of these countries was in the opinion of General de Gaulle invented by the British to annoy the French ? Canada Belgium the U.S.A. Portugal

4. Who were described by one of their own top-writers as "Germans who think they are not German because they drink milk"? the Austrians the Belgians the Dutch the Swiss

5. Which of these countries was characterized by one of its own Prime Ministers as a main exporter of "hockey-players and cold fronts" and a main importer of "baseball-players and acid rain"? Russia Canada ex-Yugoslavia Romania

6. Which country has been qualified as the country where people commit suicide and the monarch rides a bicycle? Denmark the Netherlands Norway Sweden

7. Which of these countries has been called "a country of 30 thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human"( Barry Humphries)? New Zealand Ireland the Netherlands Australia

8. In which of these countries would according to one of the local writers, a queer be defined as "a fellow who prefers women to drink"? the Vatican Russia Ireland Germany

9. Which of these was in Jean-Paul Sartre's opinion the only country where one could say of someone that he was a Jew, without "becoming an anti-Semite"? Israel France the U.S.A. Germany

10. Which of these countries was described by the ferocious French Prime Minister Georges Clémenceau as "a French colony that went in the wrong direction"? England Morocco Belgium Canada