Non- diplomatic Political Leader Test

Hugo Chavez called George Bush "the devil" yesterday. Can you recall these other outbreaks of mudslinging from the top.






Question 1 - On what basis did Jacques Chirac say the British could not be trusted?

a) Implementation of European agricultural policies
b) Cuisine
c) Knowledge of foreign languages
d) Behaviour during football matches

Question 2 - Between which two people did the following exchange take place: "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee." "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

a) Hillary Clinton and George Bush
b) Clare Short and Tony Blair
c) Lady Astor and Winston Churchill
d) Margaret Thatcher and Neil Kinnock

Question 3 - What advice did Paul Keating, the former Australian prime minister, give a university student who was protesting about fees?

a) "Choose a shorter course, knucklehead."
b) "Move to New Zealand."
c) "Eat my shorts."
d) "Go and get a job."

Question 4 - Where was Silvio Berlusconi when he told a man: "I know in Italy there is a producer, producing a film on Nazi concentration camps. I will suggest you for the role of kapo [commander]. You would be perfect for that role."

a) In a downmarket pizzeria
b) In the directors' box at the San Siro stadium
c) At the European parliament
d) In the Vatican

Question 5 - Who did Karel de Gucht, Belgium's foreign minister, liken the Dutch prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, to?

a) The Lone Ranger (without the horse)
b) Harry Potter (without the charisma)
c) Hercule Poirot (without the moustache)
d) Bugs Bunny (without the wit)

Question 6 - Who said of the anti-war Democrat Howard Dean: "I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does."

a) His father
b) Dick Cheney
c) Condoleezza Rice
d) Michael Moore

Question 7 - Who was Jacques Chirac talking to when he reportedly said: "You have been very rude, and I have never been spoken to like this before"?

a) Nicolas Sarkozy
b) Romano Prodi
c) Vladimir Putin
d) Tony Blair

Question 8 - What did Dick Cheney say to Democrat Patrick Leahy on the floor of the US Senate?

a) "Let's take this outside."
b) "Fxxx yourself."
c) "Look in the mirror."
d) "And your mother too."

Question 9 - Mr Chavez said Mr Blair was:

a) "A brown-nosing poodle."
b) "Pleasant in person."
c) "The main ally of Hitler."
d) "Not devoid of reason."

Question 10 - Who, according to a Labour MP, said the Bush administration's record on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was crxx?

a) Jack Straw
b) Clare Short
c) John Prescott
d) Margaret Beckett