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Who Said It? NY Times Quiz

TheOldMole
Dec 18 2006 09:32 AM

From the NY Times -- answers tomorrow.

The game is to identify the source of each quote from last week’s news cycle, when it was uttered and some sense of the context.

Here are the quotes:

1. The nature of the threat initially was extortion -- but then we believe on a controlled telephone call that there was a threat made of killing the victim and her son.

2. I will be delivering my plans after a long deliberation, after steady deliberation. I'm not going to be rushed into making a difficult decision. A necessary decision.

3. If you're lucky enough to survive malaria, meningities, exposure, starvation, rape and murder -- and uyou walk 500 miles throught he desert to a refugee camp -- at the very least, when you get there, you should be protected from rebel attacks.

I'm figuring the first one is about the Yoko Ono extortion/death threat, that the speaker was the lead FBI agent on the case, though I have no idea of his name.

The second one sounds like George Bush -- and would this be his new secret plan fot ending the war?

The third one...Darfur? But I don't know who said it.

Yancy Street Gang
Dec 18 2006 10:01 AM

The second one does sound like Bush. I wonder though if it's a trick question and somebody else may have said it.

seawolf17
Dec 18 2006 10:04 AM

Second one might be Rumsfeld, at his going-away party?

KC
Dec 18 2006 10:12 AM

Second one is the Vikings' headcoach, Childress, on who should be his QB.

seawolf17
Dec 18 2006 10:43 AM

The first one was Theo Epstein, talking about Scott Boras.

TheOldMole
Dec 18 2006 11:33 AM

Wolfie -- ROFL!!!

TheOldMole
Dec 19 2006 08:59 AM

] 1) Police comissioner Kelly giving details on Dec 14 of the last few events of Koral Karsan’s employment as Yoko Ono’s chauffeur

2)From Pres Bush’s remarks on Dec 13th after meeting with Pentagon leaders explaining that he will reveal his new Iraqi strategy in January only after considerable consulting.

3) George Clooney at the UN Dec 15 talking about the calamity in Darfur