Who said it — donald trump or a fake president* in a dystopian work of fiction?

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Marilyn Browning Vogel gives you the ultimate political arts quiz. Get a drink; take the quiz; find a therapist. > *All options B-D are actual Presidential characters found in books, >


 movies, TV shows, or comics. PRACTICE QUESTION: “Do you really want the truth … Each and every night I go out … hunting vampires.” A. Donald Trump B. President Winston Noble in _Fahrenheit


451 _C. President Rexford Tugwell in _The Man in the High Castle _D. President Abraham Lincoln in _Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer_ > _Answer: ᗡ_ 1. “Remember, new ‘environmentally


friendly’ light bulbs can cause cancer. Be careful — the idiots who came up with this stuff don’t care.” A. Donald Trump B. President Cliff Barnes in the final episode of _Dallas _C.


President Jonathan Lynn (born Alfred Planck) in _Player Piano _D. President Lex Luthor in _Superman_ comics series 2. “This is a momentous occasion. It’s a day we’ve all dreamed of since the


caveman first stared up into the night sky and wondered, ‘Am I alone?’” A. Donald Trump B. President Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip in _It Can’t Happen Here _C. President James Dale in _Mars


Attacks! _D. President Marcus Robbins in _Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!_ 3. “I got a three-point plan … to fix everything. Number one, we got this guy … Number two, he’s got a higher IQ than any


man alive. Number three, he’s gonna fix everything!” A. Donald Trump B. President Bill Mitchell impersonated by Dave Kovic in _Dave _C. President Will “Chewy” Cooper in _Pixels _D. President


Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in _Idiocracy_ 4. “If we have nuclear weapons, why can’t we use them?” A. Donald Trump B. President Ulysses Delano Fitzgerald Milhous Pinky in


_Pinky and the Brain _C. President Selina Meyer in _Veep _D. President David Palmer in _24_ 5. “Don’t say that you are more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry as


you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.” A. Donald Trump B. President Merkin Muffley in _Dr. Strangelove _C. President Lisa Simpson in an episode of _The Simpsons _D. President


Marge Bouvier in an episode of _The Simpsons_ 6. “Cyber is absolutely a thing of the future and the present. Look, we’re under cyberattack, forget about them. And we don’t even know where


it’s coming from.” A. Donald Trump B. Big Brother in _1984 _C. President Marion Bosworth in _Call of Duty: Black Ops II _D. George W. Bush in … a collective national nightmare that seemed


like a work of dystopian fiction. 7. “Well, he knows that. That’s why he won’t debate me. The guy’s avoiding me like he owes me child support.” A. Donald Trump B. President Mays Gilliam in


_Head of State _C. ‘The President’ (unnamed) in _Canadian Bacon _D. President Muffy Crosswire in an episode of _Arthur_ 8. “We North Americans have to stick together … especially now, no? Am


I off-base?” A. Donald Trump B. “Mr. Thompson” (Head of State) in _Atlas Shrugged _C. President Johnny Gentle (Famous Crooner) in _Infinite Jest _D. President Mike Brady in _The Brady Bunch


in the White House_ 9. “Today I can inform you, every one of you down beneath the ground where you have for so long labored, year in, year out — without complaint, enduring and suffering


and always having faith … The war, my friends, is over.” A. Donald Trump B. President Itchy in an episode of _Itchy & Scratchy_ in an episode of _The Simpsons _C. President FXJKHR in


_Futurama _D. President Talbot Yancy in _The Penultimate Truth_ 10. “Part of the problem … is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.” A. Donald Trump B. President Rathcock in _Machete


Kills _C. President Mustapha Mond in _Brave New World _D. President Charles Lindbergh in _The Plot Against America_ EXTRA CREDIT: “Every guy in the country wants to go out with my daughter.”


A. Donald Trump B. President Harrison Chandler in _Amazon Women on the Moon _C. ‘The President’ (unnamed) in _Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me _D. President Harrison Ford in _Scary


Movie 3_ _ANSWER KEY:_ 1 — ∀; 2 — Ɔ; 3 — ᗡ; 4 — ∀; 5 — ᗺ; 6 — ∀; 7 — ᗺ; 8 — Ɔ; 9 — ᗡ; 10 — ∀; EC — ∀ Marilyn Browning Vogel is a freelance writer and science educator living in Alabama. Her


writing, photography and other content has appeared in _The Chronicle of Higher Education_, _Elephant Journal_, _The Utne Reader_, _Wired_, YouTube, and a few other places. She is currently


working on an introductory science textbook and enjoys ballet and playing her pre-war Gibson banjo. Yes, she has listened to S-Town.