Wrong Calls, Euphemisms, and Plain Lies #1

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1. 'We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down'. Ribbentrop Hitler Keitel Himmler

2. 'I am not a crook'. Al Capone Richard Nixon Kenneth Lay Spiro Agnew

3. 'Peace for our time'. Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Benito Mussolini Edouard Daladier

4. 'The______________ will sell us the rope with which we will hang them'. capitalists nationalists communists fascists

5. In the latter half of the 20th century Communist China underwent a number of ideological upheavals which were given uplifting slogans somewhat at odds with their outcome. Which of these came first? Democracy Wall The Great Leap Foward The Hundred Flowers campaign The Cultural Revolution

6. During the settlement of the old west promoters encouraged settlers with the slogan ‘__________ follows the plough’. The farmer Cloud Rain Crops

7. At the beginning of WWII in September 1939 the following statement was made at a meeting of senior Luftwaffe officers: ‘No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr my name is not ________. You can call me Meyer!’ Who? Kesselring Goering Goebbels Hitler

8. What was ‘The China Incident?’ A romantic novel A spy scandal A war A diplomatic crisis

9. In May 2003 President George W Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in front of a large banner which read ‘Mission ______.’ Ongoing Complete Accomplished Impossible

10. In Nazi Germany the sign 'Arbeit macht __________' was a symbol of the horrors of this regime. What was the missing word? frei frau free toil