Olivia Rodrigo or Mao Zedong?

A new Toilet Read game to test your knowledge.

Olivia Rodrigo and Mao Zedong have both had profound impacts on our planet. So profound, in fact, that people often mix the two of them up. Test your knowledge below to see if you can correctly identify whether the following quotes were said by Olivia Rodrigo or Mao Zedong.

1. Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

2. My favorite color is like purple… or green.

3. When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

4. Technically I’m not living with my parents. I got my first big girl apartment a month or two ago. It’s very exciting.

5. I’ve been writing songs since I could literally talk.

6. All the rest of the world uses the word ‘electricity’. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

7. You're probably with that blonde girl, Who always made me doubt, She's so much older than me, She's everything I'm insecure about.

8. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

9. I’m doing a concert film that’s prom themed because I never went to prom. So we were like, “Oh it’d be perfect. We can do a little makeup for your prom.”

10. To read too many books is harmful.

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Pop singer Olivia Rodrigo (left), beside another cultural icon, Mao Zedong (right).

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Answers:

1. Mao. 2. Olivia. 3. Mao. 4. Olivia. 5. Olivia. 6. Mao. 7. Olivia. 8. Mao. 9. Olivia. 10. Mao.

How’d You Do?

0-2 Correct– Wow! What an idiot!

3-6 Correct– Getting there…

7-9 Correct– Smarty pants!

10 Correct– Slay!!! Olivia and Mao would be so proud of you.