Quiz: Who Said It, Dominique Strauss-Kahn or Gérard Depardieu?
Can you tell DSK and his movie incarnation apart from their boorish quotes about women? Take le quiz.
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1. Comparing women with food, he said: “My eye will roam with equal pleasure over the face of a beautiful woman as it will over the cuts of meat displayed in a butcher’s shop window.”
2. In a 2011 interview, he said: “For years we talk about giant pictures of orgies, but I’ve never seen anything out ... Let’s show them!”
3. Who told a newspaper interviewer: “Yes, I love women. So what?”
4. Discussing his reputation as a ladies’ man, he said: “I love women. And when you’re a man who loves women, everybody thinks you’re making love with them all.”
5. Discussing marriage, he admitted: “I’ve had affairs. But I’m not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.”
6. Which man claimed he was mistranslated by Time magazine when he said of American sexual mores: “I don’t understand why rape is seen as bad in this country. In [France], I’ve raped several women.”
7. Who claimed in an interview that he could imagine being set up by “a woman ... raped in a parking lot and to whom someone promised 500,000 or a million euros in exchange for her story.”
8. While on an airplane in 2011, he reportedly shouted to a flight attendant: “Quel beau cul”—French for “nice ass.”
9. He told an interviewer in 2011: “I think we can learn everything from women. And I especially learnt from women who have been my lovers or my mistresses.”
10. Responding to claims that he is a sexist, he told a television interviewer: “Au contraire. I respect women.”
ANSWERS:
1. Depardieu 2. Strauss-Kahn 3. Strauss-Kahn 4. Depardieu 5. Depardieu 6. Depardieu 7. Strauss-Kahn 8. Strauss-Kahn 9. Depardieu10. Strauss-Kahn
WHAT YOUR SCORE MEANS:
10/10: Cochon! 8 or 9: Magnifique! 6 or 7: Quel savoir-faire! 4 or 5: C’est la vie! Below 4: Tant pis!