Famous Speeches

0:03 Calaruga shark media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison, and today's theme is famous speeches. I Have a Dream Gettysburg Address, History's greatest orators. Question one. On August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty three, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Junior delivered his I Have a Dream address from the steps of which iconic American landmark. Question two. In the opening of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, he says, four score and seven years ago. How many years does that phrase represent? Question three? Delivered in the House of Commons on June fourth, nineteen forty, Winston Churchill's we shall Fight on the Beach's speech followed which dramatic World War II evacuation. Question four Pericles's celebrated funeral oration praising Athenian democracy, is known to us today because it was recorded by which ancient historian in his history of the Peloponnesian War.

1:17 Question five. On July fifth, eighteen fifty two, Frederick Douglas delivered what to the slave is the fourth of July in the Corinthian Hall of which US city. We'll be right back with these answers after this break welcome back. Question one at which landmark was I have a dream delivered? Answer the Lincoln Memorial. King spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, d c. Symbolically linking his civil rights message to Abraham Lincoln's legacy of emancipation. The setting underscored the call for freedom and equality. Question two, how many years is four score and seven? Answer eighty seven years equals twenty years four score eighty plus seven totals eighty seven.

2:04 Lincoln was pointing back to seventeen seventy six, the year of American independence. Question three What event preceded Churchill's we Shall Fight on the Beaches? Answer? The Dunkirk evacuation. Churchill spoke just after hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were rescued from Dunkirk. The speech steeled British resolve against a possible Nazi invasion. Question four Who preserved Pericle's funeral oration? Answer Thucydides. Thucydides included the oration in book two of his history, offering insight into Athens' civic ideals during the early years of the Peloponnesian War. Question five in which city did Douglas deliver his fourth of July Address Answer, Rochester, New York. Douglas, then based in Rochester, used the occasion to highlight the contradiction between American ideals of liberty and the reality of slavery. The speech remains a landmark in abolitionist rhetoric. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison and to Day's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you Tomorrow.