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It's a Paul Keating insults quiz, scumbags!


Love him or hate him, Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating certainly had the gift of the gab--no more so than when he was hurling insults at his opponents. Let's look at a few of his classics.

A multiple-choice quiz by lorance79. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
lorance79
Time
4 mins
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Multiple Choice
Quiz #
353,237
Updated
Dec 03 21
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10
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Question 1 of 10
1. What did Keating say was like "being flogged with a warm lettuce"? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Keating once referred to then-Prime Minister John Howard as which of the following? Hint: you can't make ANZAC biscuits without it! Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Keating described Prime Minister John Howard as the "greatest job and investment destroyer since _____________" Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Complete this Keating insult from 2007:

"For Mr Howard to get to the high moral ground, he would first need to climb out of the volcanic hole he had dug for himself over the last decade. It is like one of those diamond mine holes in South Africa. They are about a mile underground. He would have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium let alone have any contest in morality with ___________"
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In an infamous Keating moment captured by news cameras, he turned to a group of people and shouted "Go and get a job!" Who was he addressing? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Keating's colleagues weren't immune from his bite. Complete the following (bowdlerised) quote.

"Just because you __________________ doesn't give you the right to pour a bucket of [mud] over the rest of us
Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. "The thing about poor old ________ is he is all tip and no iceberg."

Which Treasurer and frustrated leadership aspirant was Paul Keating referring to in this quote?
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Question 8 of 10
8. Keating claimed that the Opposition "could not raffle a chook in a pub". What does this mean? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The official Australian parliamentary record shows that Paul Keating once said of Andrew Peacock:

"I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman's _______________ will recede into the darkness."
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Question 10 of 10
10. In a 1994 interview with a rival broadcaster, Keating said of which radio shock-jock "Most of the stuff [on his show] is middle-of-the-road fascism"? Hint



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1. What did Keating say was like "being flogged with a warm lettuce"?

Answer: Criticism from Liberal Leader John Hewson

Mild-mannered Dr John Hewson led the Liberals to the 1993 election against Keating's Labor government. At the centre of Hewson's policy proposals was an agenda for economic reform including a Goods and Services Tax (a broad-based consumption tax). Unfortunately for the Liberals, Hewson's careful, academic approach to selling his ideas and debating his opponents was no match for Keating's verbal sparring skills.
2. Keating once referred to then-Prime Minister John Howard as which of the following? Hint: you can't make ANZAC biscuits without it!

Answer: Desiccated coconut

Keating continued to give extensive media interviews after leaving politics. On one occasion when he was asked to comment on the Liberal Party's continued attacking of Labor leader Kevin Rudd, he offered this assessment of the Liberal Prime Minister:

"The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on."
3. Keating described Prime Minister John Howard as the "greatest job and investment destroyer since _____________"

Answer: the bubonic plague

The unemployment rate was actually pretty low during John Howard's term as Prime Minister, but hey--it's still a funny line!
4. Complete this Keating insult from 2007: "For Mr Howard to get to the high moral ground, he would first need to climb out of the volcanic hole he had dug for himself over the last decade. It is like one of those diamond mine holes in South Africa. They are about a mile underground. He would have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium let alone have any contest in morality with ___________"

Answer: Kevin Rudd

Keating went on to say "if you want an election about morality, bring it on. I mean, when you talk about John Howard and the moral high ground...he reminds me of that cartoon character who's always trying to...[catch] the Roadrunner, and he'd always fall down these great chasms. I mean, Howard is down one of those chasms, in terms of morality."

I'm sure Rudd was happy for the vote of support, but one can't help but suspect Keating's vigorous tirade was more about attacking his old foe than defending a colleague. Or am I being too cynical?
5. In an infamous Keating moment captured by news cameras, he turned to a group of people and shouted "Go and get a job!" Who was he addressing?

Answer: University students protesting against fees

The timing of this unusually blunt remark caused plenty of headaches in the Labor Party, as it took place during the 1996 election campaign. It helped to cement Keating's reputation for arrogance in the mind of the increasingly disenchanted electorate. Of course, nowadays we look back with fondness on a politician whose every word wasn't first tested in a focus group.
6. Keating's colleagues weren't immune from his bite. Complete the following (bowdlerised) quote. "Just because you __________________ doesn't give you the right to pour a bucket of [mud] over the rest of us

Answer: swallowed a dictionary when you were about 15

The son of a boilermaker, Keating grew up in a working class suburb of Sydney. He left school at the age of 15 and did not go on to university. Despite his obvious intelligence, his lack of formal higher education may be a somewhat touchy point. It is said that when the former Prime Minister and Labor heavyweight Gough Whitlam praised one of Keating's speeches and suggested he get himself an honours degree, Keating replied "What for? Then I'd be like you!"
7. "The thing about poor old ________ is he is all tip and no iceberg." Which Treasurer and frustrated leadership aspirant was Paul Keating referring to in this quote?

Answer: Peter Costello

Peter Costello was Treasurer during the entire 12-year term of the Howard government. He hoped to become Prime Minister when John Howard stepped down, but unfortunately for Costello, Howard kept delaying his retirement--right up until the Australian public forced it on him. Costello was left with a reputation for lacking the resolve to pursue his ambitions, which Keating was more than happy to remind everyone of.
8. Keating claimed that the Opposition "could not raffle a chook in a pub". What does this mean?

Answer: They couldn't manage the simplest tasks

This is a common Australian insult. In rural towns in particular, a pub raffle is a frequent fundraising event, with a chook (roasting chicken) or tray of assorted meat cuts the most popular prizes. Chook raffles are so ubiquitous and so easy to organise that saying someone couldn't manage one is equivalent to calling them totally useless.
9. The official Australian parliamentary record shows that Paul Keating once said of Andrew Peacock: "I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman's _______________ will recede into the darkness."

Answer: hair, like his intellect

Peacock was the Liberal Party leader, and hence leader of the opposition, for two periods in the 1980s. From March 1983 to September 1985 he tried to bring down Prime Minister Bob Hawke, only to resign when his party elected John Howard as deputy against Peacock's wishes. Howard failed to bring the hoped for success and in 1989 Peacock was reinstated as leader, lasting in the role for only 11 months. During both terms, Keating was the Australian treasurer.
10. In a 1994 interview with a rival broadcaster, Keating said of which radio shock-jock "Most of the stuff [on his show] is middle-of-the-road fascism"?

Answer: Alan Jones

Jones, who was one of Sydney's highest rating talk radio hosts, was engaged in a public feud with John Laws at the time. Keating made this remark on Laws' program. As Jones was an unabashed advocate of the conservative side of politics and had clashed with the prime minister on many occasions, Keating refused to appear on Jones' show all year.
Source: Author lorance79

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