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Political Speeches Trivia Quiz
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Political Speeches Trivia Quiz
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1. In his 'Apology', who made a defence against the charges brought against him of corrupting the Athenian youth by teaching that 'an unexamined life is not worth living'?

2. What did JFK ask his fellow Americans?

3. Considered one of the finest pieces of oratory in human history, whose 1963 speech begins with the words “Five score years ago…”?

4. In 1987, William Wilberforce spoke to British Parliament, beginning with the following words: 'When I consider the magnitude of the subject which I am to bring before the House – a subject, in which the interests, not of this country, nor of Europe alone, but of the whole world, and of posterity, are involved'. What was the aim of the bill he was proposing?

5. On January 28 1986, Ronald Reagan addressed the nation in the aftermath of what tragedy with a speech that included the line 'The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.'?

6. Who demanded “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”?

7. Whose 1913 speech in Hartford, Connecticut included the line “We women, in trying to make our case clear, always have to make as part of our argument, and urge upon men in our audience the fact – a very simple fact – that women are human beings.”?

8. Which famous speech is just 275 words long?

9. What was JFK said “that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too”, what was he referring to?