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A Right Royal Mess? Trivia Quiz

Over the years, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, made some less than tactful comments during conversations. The following are all attributed to him. Can you work out who he was speaking to or what he was speaking about?

A multiple-choice quiz by suomy. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
suomy

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
327,604

Updated
Sep 09 22

# Qns
10

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Avg Score
7 / 10

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Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 176 (5/10), pennie1478 (1/10), Guest 173 (5/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who was Prince Philip speaking to when he asked: "Where did you get that hat?" Hint

his wife, the Queen

the actress Julia Roberts

the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher

the nun Mother Teresa

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which country was Prince Philip referring to when he said: "The b*st*rds murdered half my family"? Hint

Soviet Union

Poland

China

Germany

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who was Prince Philip speaking to in 1969 when he asked: "What do you gargle with - pebbles?" Hint

Tom Jones

Britney Spears

Cher

Michael Jackson

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who was Prince Philip speaking to when he said: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed"? Hint

a group of scientists when visiting Mount Etna

to members of the Politburo in Vietnam

workers at a fish factory in Scotland

a group of British students in China

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who was Prince Philip speaking to when he said: "Djabugay, Yirrganydji, what's all that about? Do you still throw spears at each other?" Hint

a gaucho in Argentina

an Inuit indian in Greenland

an Aboriginal leader in Australia

a teacher in Libya

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who was Prince Philip speaking to when he asked: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" Hint

a Cornish fisherman

a Cayman Islander

the captain of a Australian submarine

a French merchant seaman

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." To which group of people was Prince Philip referring? Hint

partygoers at a Wet Wet Wet concert

football fans standing next to a loud speaker

ground attendants at Heathrow Airport

deaf children standing near a Jamaican steel drum band

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who prompted this reply: "Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car - we often see it when driving to Windsor Castle"?
Hint

Margaret Thatcher

Elton John

Bill Clinton

Francois Mitterand

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Question 9 of 10

9. "Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world", was said of which country? Hint

Thailand

Brazil

Italy

South Africa

10. Which organisation was Prince Philip addressing when he said: "Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practised for a good many years"? Hint

the British Trade Council

the General Dental Council

the Law Society of England and Wales

the Metropolitan Police

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who was Prince Philip speaking to when he asked: "Where did you get that hat?"

Answer: his wife, the Queen

He said this immediately after the Queen's coronation in 1953.

2. Which country was Prince Philip referring to when he said: "The b*st*rds murdered half my family"?

Answer: Soviet Union

This comment was made to a room full of press agents in 1967 when asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

3. Who was Prince Philip speaking to in 1969 when he asked: "What do you gargle with - pebbles?"

Answer: Tom Jones

This was after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium. The show is put on annually in November or December with the proceeds going to the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund, of which the Queen was patron.

4. Who was Prince Philip speaking to when he said: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed"?

Answer: a group of British students in China

This was during a state visit to China in 1986. On another occasion during this visit he commented at a World Wildlife Fund conference: "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."

5. Who was Prince Philip speaking to when he said: "Djabugay, Yirrganydji, what's all that about? Do you still throw spears at each other?"

Answer: an Aboriginal leader in Australia

This happened during a royal tour of Australia in March 2002 when on an official visit to Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park in Cairns.

6. Who was Prince Philip speaking to when he asked: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?"

Answer: a Cayman Islander

The question was posed in 1994 during an eight-country Caribbean tour aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia.

7. "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." To which group of people was Prince Philip referring?

Answer: deaf children standing near a Jamaican steel drum band

On a visit to the new Welsh Assembly in 1999, this observation came during a conversation with a group from the British Deaf Association.

8. Who prompted this reply: "Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car - we often see it when driving to Windsor Castle"?

Answer: Elton John

This was said in 2001 to Elton John on learning that Elton John had sold his gold-coloured Aston Martin.

9. "Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world", was said of which country?

Answer: Thailand

Prince Philip made this comment in 1991 in Thailand after accepting a conservation award.

Answer: the General Dental Council

This was in 1960. "Dontopedalogy" even appears in some dictionaries with Prince Philip credited as creating the term.

Source: Author suomy

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