The Year-End Quiz

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
Published: January 1, 2010

It is time to take the challenge. Test your knowledge of events and quotations from the last year.

1. January: In his farewell address to the Washington press corps, George W. Bush said, “Sometimes ...:

a) “... you underestimated me.”

b) “... you misunderstood me.”

c) “... you misunderestimated me.”

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2. April: Joe Biden said he “wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now” because of his fear of:

a) Confined places.

b) Catching the H1N1 virus.

c) Being cornered by a reporter who wanted to remind him that he’s in charge of overseeing the way that the stimulus money is spent.

(More here.)