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Who said, "when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton"?
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Robert Falcon Scott
Roald Amundsen
Raymond Priestley
Answer
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, a member of Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, wrote the quote in a preface to his 1922 memoir "The Worst Journey in the World." Sir Raymond Priestley later paraphrased it in his 1956 address to the British Science Association.
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