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Ronald Reagan: He said THAT too?

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Introduction:
"My second quiz on Ronald Reagan quotes, from funny to silly to inspiring."


1. Ronald Reagan said there was nothing better for the inside of a man than something. What?
    Hormel chili
    The outside of a horse
    Nancy's sparkling eyes
    A John Wayne film festival


2. "How do you tell a Communist?" asked Reagan. "Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin." According to the rest of the quote, how do you tell an anti-Communist?
    "He's probably wearing a Reagan-Bush button"
    "It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin"
    "It's someone who couldn't get past the first few pages of Marx and Lenin"
    "It's not HOW you tell them, it's WHAT you tell them: YOU'RE WRONG!"


3. How did Reagan respond when asked by ABC's Sam Donaldson if he thought Martin Luther King had been a Communist?
    "Next question"
    "We'll know in about 35 years, won't we?"
    "Why do you ask?"
    "I have a dream that I just heard a dumb question"


4. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - What wall?
    The Berlin Wall
    The "wall" of mistrust between the Soviet Union and the United States
    The Great Wall of China
    An ugly wall facing the street in front of the Soviet embassy in Washington


5. What, according to Ronald Reagan, was "the eleventh commandment?"
    "Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican"
    "Peace through strength"
    "The one Moses never wrote, once he saw how hard it was to get Democrats to approve the first ten"
    "Thou shall not covet thy workers' paychecks"


6. In his 1966 run for governor of California, what did Ronald Reagan say when asked what kind of governor he'd be?
    "Vote for me and find out"
    "I don't know; I've never played a governor"
    "The same kind of leader I was when I ran the Screen Actors Guild for six years"
    "Someone who'll do what's right for California and what's good for America"


7. In a 1983 speech to a business organization, what did Reagan say that angered many feminists?
    "Today, a woman's place is every bit as much in the boardroom as it is the kitchen"
    "If it wasn't for women, us men would still be walking around in skin suits carrying clubs"
    "Behind every successful man is a woman"
    "Thank you sweetie, for that wonderful introduction"


8. What prompted President Reagan in 1986 to tell 'Time' magazine's Hugh Sidey "There is bitter bile in my throat?"
    Sidey had asked Reagan about his health
    The initial disclosures in the Iran-contra scandal
    Reagan's displeasure with unnamed aides leaking information to the press
    The Boston Red Sox blowing the World Series by losing the final two games


9. "Doveryay, no proveryay," Reagan was fond of saying while dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev. What is the meaning of this old Russian proverb?
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
    Trust, but verify
    Gorbachev had never heard it; neither had Russian scholars, and its meaning remains a mystery today
    Six vodkas in the morning will give you a headache in the afternoon


10. When he met Sugar Ray Leonard, who had just unified the welterweight boxing title by beating Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns, what did Reagan say?
    "A ringful of Sugar helped The Hitman go down"
    "Leonard Sugarman, the people's champion!"
    "We're very proud to have Sugar Ray and Mrs. Ray here"
    "Mr. Hearns, it is indeed my pleasure!"


11. Reagan's first national exposure as a political figure came in a 1964 televised speech for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Which line below is from that speech?
    "We have come to a time for choosing"
    "[The Democrats'] government sees people only as members of groups; [the Republicans'] serves all the people of America as individuals
    "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave"
    " No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women"


12. President Reagan told reporters that he "learned a lot" during a 1982 trip to Latin America. What was one of those things he learned?
    "You know, they're all individual countries"
    The Lambada
    That Brazilians speak Portuguese
    How to pronounce the capital of Honduras


13. What figured prominently in one of Reagan's favorite stories to illustrate his own optimism?
    A ferris wheel at a carnival
    The song "Tomorrow" from "Annie"
    A little boy and a pile of manure
    A sunny day and an ice cream cone


14. "Here's looking at you, kid," said Ronald Reagan in a toast to a prominent American on her birthday. Who was he toasting?
    Nancy Reagan
    Actress Lauren Bacall
    Television personality Barbara Walters
    Washington Post president Katharine Graham


15. "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead." From what are these words of Ronald Reagan?
    His 1989 farewell address
    His 1994 statement announcing that he had Alzheimer's Disease
    A congratulatory telegram to Bill Clinton upon his 1993 inauguration
    The last words of his 1990 autobiography


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