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They're both blond, boisterous and only steps away from their respective countries' highest seats of power. One is seeking to lead the Republican Party into the White House; the other was aiming for Britain's prime ministership, but instead ended up its foreign minister in a new government. Can you recognize some of their more infamous quotes?
Answer: Mr. Trump said this on June 24, the day after Britain’s referendum on EU membership, on a visit to Scotland.
Answer: Mr. Trump said this while speaking about the cost of U.S. foreign policy in a March interview with the Washington Post editorial board.
Answer: Mr. Johnson said this in March, when the Brexit referendum campaign was still in progress, to cite Canada as an example of how Britain could succeed economically outside the European Union.
Answer: Mr. Trump said this in September, 2015, when asked by a CBC reporter whether he would build a wall along the U.S.-Canadian border. He said he would not.
Answer: Mr. Johnson said this in a 2007 column for the Daily Telegraph.
Answer: Mr. Trump said this on Twitter in June.
Answer: Mr. Trump said this in a 1990 interview with Playboy magazine.
Answer: Mr. Johnson wrote this limerick for a poetry competition in The Spectator magazine about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in May, 2016. He won the contest.
Answer: Mr. Johnson wrote this in a December, 2015, column for The Daily Telegraph urging the West to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against Islamic State.
Answer: Mr. Trump said this in a 2011 ABC interview about his nascent presidential ambitions.
Answer: Mr. Johnson wrote this in a Telegraph column in January, 2002, about a visit by then prime minister Tony Blair to Africa. He apologized for that column six years later.
Answer: Mr. Trump said this on Twitter in May, 2013.
Answer: Mr. Trump said this in May after Mr. Khan, the newly elected mayor of London, rebuffed the suggestion that he would be exempt from Mr. Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Answer: Mr. Johnson said this in London – where he was mayor at the time – in October, 2015, when his Toronto counterpart John Tory came for a visit. Mr. Tory, standing beside him, replied: “No sir. No, no, no.”
Answer: Okay, that one was a freebie question. Mr. Johnson said this in response to remarks Mr. Trump made in December, 2015, defending his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States.
How many quotes did you identify correctly?
With a report from Reuters
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