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Poor old Matt Goodwin. No sooner had he lost the Gorton and Denton byelection for Reform UK while seemingly having some very sour grapes about the outcome, but his new book – Suicide of a Nation – had come under scrutiny for allegedly relying to some extent on ChatGPT. That reliance appears to have stretched to allowing the chatbot to hallucinate some quotes by famous figures, intellectuals and philosophers, which somehow nobody saw fit to fact check. How awkward.
A former professor of politics, Goodwin has denied this, claiming that “critics would rather nit-pick over interpretations of Latin and historical quotes than deal with my book’s core argument” and that “criticism is coming from notorious left-wing activists”. Still, whatever the truth, we are sure that Guardian readers will be able to spot which of these famous quotes are correct or correctly attributed.
The Guardian’s mangled quotations quiz
- 1.Let us start off gently. What is the next line from this famous Shakespeare speech? 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'
- 2.Who is said to have yelled "Eureka!" and leapt out of his bathtub to run naked through the streets of Syracuse after a revelation about how the displacement of water works?
- 3.What was Kenneth Wolstenholme's famous line of commentary at the end of the men's 1966 World Cup final between England and West Germany?
- 4.In 1993, Tony Blair declared that the Labour party was intending to be …
- 5.Which of these is the correct piece of philosophy from Eric Cantona
- 6.In a proverb often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, it is said that an army marches on what?
- 7.John F Kennedy famously once declared …
- 8.Is this quote real or fake? "The trouble with the internet is anybody can put words on a picture of you, and people will believe you said it" – Henry VIII
- 9.Noel Gallagher once described his brother Liam as …
- 10.Which author said: "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
- 11.Which of these is the opening line of a Jane Austen novel?
- 12.And finally … how was this quiz written?
