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Can Right Be Wrong? Trivia Quiz

Can you identify these people who struggled with the concept of rightness?

A multiple-choice quiz by shvdotr. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
shvdotr

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
360,872

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
912

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Question 1 of 10

1. You're watching the end of Super Bowl XXV. Your knuckles are white. The game is on the line. Whose failure will always be linked with the expression "wide right"? Hint

Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Norwood

Kansas City kicker Jan Stenerud

New York Giants kicker Matt Bahr

Cleveland Browns kicker Lou "the Toe" Groza

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which member of the Nineteenth Century American "Great Triumvirate" said, "I'd rather be right than President."? Hint

Abraham Lincoln

John C. Calhoun

Stephen Douglas

Henry Clay

3. In 1962 the Chad Mitchell Trio sang a song lampooning an organization that was "fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the Right." What was the name of this group whose members, according to the song's lyrics, "only hail the hero from whom we got our name. We're not sure what he did, but he's our hero just the same"? Hint

the Knights of Pythias

the Audubon Society

the John Birch Society

the Weathermen

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which right-wing presidential candidate of 1964 had as his slogan, "In your heart you know he's right."? Hint

Barry Goldwater

Robert Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

George Wallace

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which member of the Powhatan Confederacy of Seventeenth-Century Virginia was referred to by the English as a "right-thinking savage" for accepting Christianity and marrying an English settler in 1614? Hint

Sacagawea

Pocahontas

Malinche

Molly Brandt

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Question 6 of 10

6. Dictators never seem to struggle in their own minds about what is right. To which famous (or infamous) author of "My Struggle" has the quote, "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong" been attributed? Hint

Mao Zedong

Adolf Hitler

Julius Caesar

Alexander the Great

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which great Chicago merchandizer is credited with the quote, "Right or wrong, the customer is always right."? Hint

Marshall Field

Aaron Montgomery Ward

James Cash Penney

John Davison Rockefeller

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which rhythm and blues artist and soul singer, who passed away in 2007, had his biggest hit with "If Loving You is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right"? Hint

Erykah Badu

Usher

Luther Ingram

Janet Jackson

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Question 9 of 10

9. Son of a Duke of Marlborough and father of a future Prime Minister, which British statesman said, "Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong"? Hint

Lord Randolph Churchill

William Ewart Gladstone

Lord Robert Cecil

Lord John Russell

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Question 10 of 10

10. Although politically he may have leaned much more to the left than to the right, this Canadian-born economist, who spent 50 years at Harvard, is quoted as saying, "There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose." Can you name him? Hint

James Whitcomb Riley

Edward Arlington Robinson

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Maynard Keynes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. You're watching the end of Super Bowl XXV. Your knuckles are white. The game is on the line. Whose failure will always be linked with the expression "wide right"?

Answer: Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Norwood

With eight seconds left and the Giants leading, 20-19, the Bills had the ball on New York's 27-yeard line. Norwood's ensuing 47-yard field goal attempt missed the right upright by about a foot, ensuring the win for the G-men in the 1991 NFL Super Bowl.

2. Which member of the Nineteenth Century American "Great Triumvirate" said, "I'd rather be right than President."?

Answer: Henry Clay

Clay ran for President three times, but lost each time, to John Quincy Adams in 1824, to Andrew Jackson in 1832, and to James K. Polk. Representing Kentucky in Congress, Clay served in both the Senate and House in his long career. He was also Secretary of State for four years and was known as "the Great Compromiser" for his efforts to prevent sectional discord and its later disaster of the American Civil War.

Answer: the John Birch Society

John Birch was a Baptist missionary in China and also a military intelligence officer for the US Army. He was killed in China in 1945 by Chinese Communists, and is considered by some to be the first victim of the Cold War. The John Birch Society was formed thirteen years after his death.

4. Which right-wing presidential candidate of 1964 had as his slogan, "In your heart you know he's right."?

Answer: Barry Goldwater

Goldwater, eventually to be a five-term senator from Arizona, earned the sobriquet "Mr. Conservative." In 1964, despite his campaign slogan, he suffered a landslide defeat at the hands of LBJ, who won 44 states and 486 electoral votes.

Answer: Pocahontas

Pocahontas, whose native name was Matoaka, married planter John Rolfe after being kidnapped by the English and in spite of already being married to a fellow Powhatan named Kocoum. Although never divorced, Pocahontas' native marriage was considered annulled by the English when she was baptized.

Answer: Adolf Hitler

The first volume of Hitler's "Mein Kampf," usually translated as "My Struggle," written in 1925 while he was in prison, earned him enough money to buy a Mercedes while still in prison.

7. Which great Chicago merchandizer is credited with the quote, "Right or wrong, the customer is always right."?

Answer: Marshall Field

Marshall Field moved from Massachusetts to Chicago when he was 21 and eventually established Marshall Field's, which was officially founded in 1852. The Marshall Field's chain was acquired by Macy's in 2005. Another quote attributed to Field is "Give the lady what she wants!"

8. Which rhythm and blues artist and soul singer, who passed away in 2007, had his biggest hit with "If Loving You is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right"?

Answer: Luther Ingram

Bearing the same title as the 1972 album it highlighted, "If Loving You..." was number one on the Rhythm and Blues charts for four weeks and reached number three on the "Billboard Hot 100" list. Barbara Mandrell's 1978 cover of the song also was number one on the country charts. The song was written by Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, and Raymond Jackson.

9. Son of a Duke of Marlborough and father of a future Prime Minister, which British statesman said, "Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong"?

Answer: Lord Randolph Churchill

Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill's father was John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, and his son was Winston Churchill. Among the offices Randolph Churchill held were Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the House of Commons, and Secretary of State for India.

Answer: John Kenneth Galbraith

Galbraith's long career also included teaching at Princeton, working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, editing "Fortune" magazine, and serving as U.S. Ambassador to India. In 1937, on a year-long stay at Cambridge, he was influenced by Keynes. He also was once named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000, as well as honors from the governments of Canada, India, and France.

Source: Author shvdotr

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