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Revolutionary(?) Silhouettes
Fill in the blanks
Who said that?
StuPol + Universities
100
Who said this quote: “you’ve got to work out, what does a royal commission do besides fund lawyers?”
a. Chris Minns
b. Anthony Albanese
c. Mehreen Faruqi
d. Josh Lees
Who is Anthony Albanese?
100
Who is this revolutionary
a. Lenin
b. Marx
c. Mamdani
d. Trotsky
Who is Lenin?
100
The Communist Manifesto
"_______ bourgeois society with its _______ of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the ________, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."
a. Modern, relations, sorcerer
b. All, forces, wizard
c. Groovy, wonders, genius
d. Importantly, increases, God
What is "Modern, relations, sorcerer"?
100
"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees."
a. Karl Liebknecht
b. Karl Marx
c. The Bible
d. Zohran Mamdani
What is The Bible?
100
What does NLS stand for?
a. National Liberal Students
b. National Loser Students
c. National Labor Students
d. Neoliberal Loving Students
Who is National Labor Students?
200
In this masterpiece, Gina Rinehart + friends are watching which famous performer?
a. Taylor Swift
b. Guy Sebastian
c. INXS
d. Tom Morello
Who is Guy Sebastian?
200
Who is this revolutionary?
a. Friedrich Engels
b. Anthony Albanese
c. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
d. Karl Marx
Who is Karl Marx?
200
The Internationale
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The _______ too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those _______ keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the _______ on our own side.
a. soldiers, monsters, bosses
b. soldiers, cannibals, generals
c. peasants, monsters, bosses
d. peasants, bosses, generals
What is "soldiers, cannibals, generals"?
200
“For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
a. Vladimir Lenin
b. Karl Marx
c. The Bible
d. Zohran Mamdani
What is the Bible?
200
This person, with a "brilliant social media" (Jono, 2026), wore a costume of which animal during the recent UTS student elections?
a. A Dinosaur
b. A Mouse
c. A Gorilla
d. A Shark
What is a gorilla?
300
This item was famously described as “fast,” “amazing,” and “sexy”...
a. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
b. The NUS conference
c. Pauline Hanson's Plane
d. The NSW Metro Extension
What is Pauline Hanson's Plane?
300
Who is this revolutionary?
a. Leon Trotsky
b. Rosa Luxemburg
c. Clara Zetkin
d. Jim Cairns
Who is Rosa Luxemburg?
300
Zohran Mamdani
"Being an aspiring - and, I would say, at times failed - _____ teaches you how to deal with rejection."
"There is - and has to be - room for ________ among those at the core of your City Hall."
"I ____ defund the police."
a. activist, compromise, will
b. politician, anger, won't
c. emcee, friendship, will
d. emcee, disagreement, won't
What is "emcee, disagreement, won't"?
300
"Philanthropy is always an expression of power. Giving often depends on the personal whims of super-rich individuals. Sometimes these coincide with the priorities of society, but at other times they contradict or undermine them"
a. The Guardian
b. RedFlag Newspaper
c. Marxist Left Review
d. Sky News
What is the Guardian?
300
This person was recruited by UniMelb, UNSW, and ultimately the New Zealand government to attack the left. What was his job?
a. Head of Security
b. To infiltrate socialist groups
c. Wizard
d. Police Officer
What is wizard?
400
Who said this quote: “Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom”
a. Deng Xiaoping
b. Bill Shorten
c. Mao Zedong
d. Bob Katter
Who is Bob Katter?
400
Who is this revolutionary?
a. Superman
b. Leon Trotsky
c. Gough Whitlam
d. Karl Liebknecht
Who is Gough Whitlam?
For half points: Who is Superman?
400
Gough Whitlam
"Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the _____ now to be held"
"I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language; I am ______, not immortal"
"A __________ government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes."
a. election, eternal, conservative
b. strike, human, labor
c. election, inevitable, good
d. strike, inevitable, capitalist
What is "election, eternal, conservative"?
400
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger."
a. Vladimir Lenin
b. Dwight D. Eisenhower
c. Nikolai Bukharin
d. Winston Churchill
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
UTS Unity called security on us around what topic of debate?
a. An endorsement for an SFP Student Strike
b. Posting a graphic opposing the UTS cuts
c. Taking a solidarity photo for the 2024 Woolworths strike
d. Extending an SRC meeting to continue a debate around the ALP
What is taking a solidarity photo for the Woolworths strike?
500
Which of the following is not a way that Josh Lees has been described in the media
a. The most powerful man in NSW
b. Un-Australian of the Year
c. Strawberry-Blonde Man Bun
d. Serial Protester
What is "The most powerful man in NSW"?
Josh is only the most powerful man in Sydney!
500
Who is this revolutionary?
a. Leon Trotsky
b. Friedrich Engels
c. Che Guevara
d. Yakov Sverdlov
Who is Che Guevara?
500
Our Future, by Gina Rinehart
Some envious unthinking people have been conned
To think prosperity is created by waving a magic wand
Through such unfortunate ignorance, too much abuse is hurled
Against miners, ______ and related industries who strive to build the world
Develop North Australia, embrace __________ and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
The world's _____ need our resources: do not leave them to their fate
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late
a. workers, multiculturalism, poor
b. billionaires, libertarianism, economies
c. billionaires, immigration, people
d. fossil fuels, mining, markets
What is "workers, multiculturalism, poor"?
500
"Property is Theft"
a. Karl Marx
b. Friedrich Engels
c. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
d. Noam Chomsky
Who is Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
500
This NUS faction forced one of their members to get in a car against their will
a. Socialist Alternative
b. Unity
c. NLS
d. Independents
Who is Unity?