10 points.

Those clever quotations type websites are a blimming menace. Very few of them give the source of the quotation they offer (and often misquote, anyway), because they've just borrowed it off another site that also eschews sources.

Our college has a number of inspirational quotations painted on interior surfaces. I set students to track them down and find out where they come from ('It comes from a website called brainyquotes.com...').

When I started doing that I found out that some of the quotations were misquoted, some of the writers had been given the wrong names and one or two were untraceable. I'd be generous and suggest it was the Marketing Department that did all the work, but...

As the cartoonist from an American Newspaper said:

"On the Internet know one knows you are a dog"

The book says a tripod has "long, flexible, glittering tentacles ... swinging and rattling about its strange body".

but it has an appendage coming from below as well? One that's clearly an appendage and different from the four legs as it's segmented and has a claw.

That’s its cow grabber.

Not quite the same but reminds me of this:

S Y D N E Y, Aug. 21, 2000 -- — A dispute has broken out in Australia over an embarrassing design on the medals for next month’s Sydney Olympics which depict a Roman colosseum rather than a Greek temple...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/In
ternational/story%3fid=82843&page=1

The new yorker magazine, boss.

Otherwise entries accurate as always.