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📜 Famous Speeches & Quotes
'I have a dream', 'We shall fight on the beaches' — who said these famous words that changed history?
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'I have a dream' is one of history's most famous speeches, given in Washington, D.C. in 1963. Who delivered it?
Malcolm X
Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King Jr.
John F. Kennedy
20s
Who said: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'?
John Glenn
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
20s
Which British Prime Minister declared, 'We shall fight on the beaches'?
Neville Chamberlain
Harold Macmillan
Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill
20s
At which event did John F. Kennedy say, 'Ask not what your country can do for you'?
His visit to West Berlin in 1963
His Cuban Missile Crisis address in 1962
A TV debate with Richard Nixon in 1960
His inauguration as president in 1961
30s
Which famous line comes from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?
Government of the people, by the people, for the people
We hold these truths to be self-evident
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
A date which will live in infamy
30s
At Tilbury in 1588, Elizabeth I said she had 'the heart and stomach of a king'. Which threat was England facing?
The Spanish Armada
A Scottish army
A French invasion fleet
The Dutch navy
30s
Churchill's 'We shall fight on the beaches' speech came straight after which event?
The D-Day landings in Normandy
The evacuation of troops from Dunkirk
The end of the Battle of Britain
The attack on Pearl Harbor
30s
Lincoln began, 'Four score and seven years ago…'. A score is 20. How many years did he mean?
67
107
87
27
30s
In 1964 Nelson Mandela told a court he was 'prepared to die' for a free South Africa. Which trial was this?
The Robben Island Trial
The Rivonia Trial
The Nuremberg Trials
The Treason Trial
30s
Complete Malala Yousafzai's line from her 2013 UN speech: 'One child, one teacher, one book and one pen…':
…can end every war
…can build a nation
…can change the world
…can open every door
20s