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I Wish I'd Said That!

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"We have all been there. Somebody offends you, you want to reply, but the linguistic centre of your brain seems to have taken the night off. This quiz is about some of the people who were actually able to come up with truly epic comebacks."

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1. "Sir, you are drunk."
"Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober."

Who came up with this classic comeback?
    John Lennon
    Oscar Wilde
    Winston Churchill
    Tom Waits


2. Who offered this laconic piece of advice:

"There is a conspiracy against me, a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?"
"Join in."
    Tom Waits
    Oscar Wilde
    Charlie Chaplin
    Franklin D. Roosevelt


3. John Wilkes is known to have been pinned to the wall by the Earl of Sandwich with the merciless statement, "Pon my soul, Wilkes, I don't know whether you'll die upon the gallows or of the pox."

How did Wilkes respond to this?
    "That depends, my Lord, whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles, or your Lordship's mistresses."
    "Do not worry, my Lord, I do not plan to expire during your lifetime."
    "And I don't care if His Lordship is killed by a pack of swallows or an army of ducks."
    "I thought, from the amount of spit you seem to be directing at me, that you had already settled on the latter."


4. One night at a bar, a man walks over to another man who had been receiving a lot of attention from the former's wife and had even signed an autograph for her. The first man unbuttons his trousers and pulls out his equipment, exclaiming:
"Since you're autographing things, why don't you autograph this?"

Then, after a moment of silence, the latter man replies:
"I don't know if I can autograph it, but perhaps I can initial it."

Who was the man with this famous comeback?
    Truman Capote
    Sam Shepard
    Ronald Reagan
    Alfred Hitchcock


5. If one is to believe the rumours, how did Cary Grant reply to the telegram a journalist sent him, reading "How old Cary Grant?"
    "If four words are all you have for me, I would suggest you make better use of them."
    "Old Cary Grant fine. How you?"
    "Cary Grant 36 next Wednesday. Come to party?"
    "Come again?"


6. Who, when asked what he thought of Western Civilization, replied: "I think that would be a very good idea"?
    Josef Stalin
    Leo Tolstoy
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Mao Zedong


7. An actress asked her director which was her best side, and got the answer "My dear, you're sitting on it."

Which classic film director had the nerve to say this?
    Charlie Chaplin
    Stanley Kubrick
    Ridley Scott
    Alfred Hitchcock


8. An insult need not always contain words. After the opening night performance of a new play had ended, the playwright walks on stage to a thundering standing ovation. Amidst all the cheers, one member of the audience suddenly cries out a piercing "BOO!" The playwright turns to the audience member and says: "I quite agree with you my friend, but what can we two do against a whole houseful of the opposite opinion?"

Who originated this comeback zinger?
    Anton Chekhov
    Sam Shepard
    George Bernard Shaw
    William Shakespeare


9. Which film actor helped make a classic sword fighting scene much simpler by suggesting: "Why don't I just shoot him"?
    Arnold Schwartzenegger
    Harrison Ford
    John Travolta
    Keanu Reeves


10. The title of this quiz is said to once have been jealously uttered by Oscar Wilde, after James McNeill Whistler had made a very clever remark.

In what manner did Whistler strike down Wilde's "I wish I'd said that"?
    "Believe me, Oscar, so do I."
    "You already did, Oscar."
    "You will, Oscar, you will."
    "But you didn't Oscar, did you?"


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Compiled Jun 28 12