Who said what in 2012: Guess the famous person behind these soon-to-be legendary sayings

By Ephraim Hardcastle

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Look Camilla, a Scottish inn! Was it Prince Charles who thought McDonald's was Scottish?

Look Camilla, a Scottish inn! Was it Prince Charles who thought McDonald's was Scottish?

Here are some memorable quotes from 2012. See if you can remember who said them:

 1) Richard Burton said of him in his diaries: ‘He’s practically a dwarf. He has the most contrived voice, all affectation. And that vulgar streak in him is shaming.’
Was this a) The Prince of Wales b) George W Bush c) Laurence Olivier.

2) Passing a McDonald’s in Germany, who said: ‘How strange to find a Scottish restaurant in Dusseldorf.’ 
a) Prince Philip b) Anthony Blunt c) Hugh Bonneville

3) A fellow broadcaster said of her: ‘She is a mean-cheeked Leftie who has long sucked up to Labour, some think because she wants a Joan Bakewell-style peerage.’
a) Emily Maitlis b) Mariella Frostrup c) Anne Robinson?

4) Fame, he said, prevented him from being just ‘an anonymous pervert’.  a) Liberace b) Sir Jimmy Savile  c) Grayson Perry.

5) ‘Foreskins off to them, I say,’ she said, referring to men who oppose Germany’s ban on circumcision.
a) Barbara Amiel  b) J K Rowling c) Lindsay Lohan.

Lord Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne

Dyke in hats: Lord Patten or George Osborne?

6) When Madame Tussauds melted down their waxwork, who said: ‘There was enough wax to create Ant and Dec’?
a) Piers Morgan b) Terry Wogan c) Vanessa Feltz.

7) His mother said to him: ‘You shouldn’t wear hats. You look like an old dyke.’ 
a) Lord Patten b) Karl Lagerfeld c) George Osborne.

8) Talking about the EU, he or she said: ‘Why do we have to battle through this persiflage of jargon?’ 
a) David Cameron b) Angela Merkel c) Jacob Rees-Mogg MP.

9) ‘Too rich to walk,’ this too-merry-to-remain-upright soul explained to a disapproving crowd, while being carried shoulder-high from a louche Tangier nightclub.
Was it a) Cheryl Cole, pictured, b) Barbara Hutton, c) Lindsay Lohan.

10) ‘I am prepared to discuss treason, but not while drinking this ghastly Swiss weasel-p***,’ said this fusspot oenophile.
a) Prince Michael of Kent  b) the Prince of Wales c) Lord (Norman) Lamont.

11) ‘Think of the disgrace you will bring upon the family . . . the appalling people you will meet!’ said this actor’s mother in response to her son’s theatrical ambitions.
a) Sir Christopher Lee b) Sir Kenneth Branagh c) Colin Farrell.

12) Who said on BBC1 that the abysmal Spice Girls musical, Viva Forever, was: ‘wonderful . . .very good . . . received the best reviews ever . . .’
a) Graham Norton b) Jennifer Saunders (author) c) Billy Connolly.

ANSWERS (SPOILER ALERT):

1c, jealousy?; 2b, the spy to his pupil, Brian Sewell; 3b; 4c; 5a, Conrad Black’s firecracker; 6b, who makes an art out of self deprecation; 7b, poor old German booby; 8c, rumoured to wear double-breasted pyjamas; 9b, the Woolworth heiress; 10c, Norman, of course!; 11a – old Dracula, believe it or not; 12, all of them!

 

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