ONE: “You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State.” The quote has been excerpted from a speech delivered by the Quaid-i-Azam. When and where?

TWO: “Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere, and I do not quite know what to tell you or how to say it,” said Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on January 30, 1948. What was the occasion?

THREE: “In California these days, they no longer throw away their garbage. Instead they make them into novels, movies and TV soap operas,” said a three-time Academy Award winner. His name?

FOUR: One of the oft-quoted lines, when narrating an unbelievable incident in life, is ‘truth is stranger than fiction’, which comes from the line by a well known 19th-century poet: ‘Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction’. Can you recall the name of the poet?

FIVE: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife,” are the opening lines of a novel by Jane Austen. Which novel?

SIX: “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” is a famous line from the novel Anna Karenina. The novel was written by a Russian whom Somerset Maugham considered to be the greatest novelist in the world. Who?

SEVEN: “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault,” said a man who served as the Secretary of State under President Nixon and his successor President Gerald Ford. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. Can you name him?

EIGHT: “My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher,” said Plato’s mentor. His name?

NINE: “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written,” wrote the novelist in his preface to The Portrait of Dorian Gray. Name the novelist.

TEN: ‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all’ are famous lines, penned by a leading 19th century poet, in his poem In Memoriam. Name the poet..

ANSWERS
 

(1) In his presidential address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947 (2) On the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (3) Woody Allen (4) Lord Byron (5) Pride and Prejudice (6) Leo Tolstoy (7) Henry Kissinger (8) Socrates (9) Oscar Wilde (10) Lord Tennyson — Compiled by AN