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Quiz: How well do you know these famous speeches?

I have a dream today.

AFTER A BIG week for political speeches in the US, how well can you spot these famous addresses from Ireland and abroad?

Fill in the missing word from Patrick Pearse's most-famous graveside oration: "Ireland ____ shall never be at peace."
Disunited
Unfree

Colonised
Together
'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'. Name the US president?
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
'Deep within the subconscious of the Black man in this country, he’s still more African than he is American.' Who spoke these words?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Lewis

Malcolm X
Muhammad Ali
"St. Patrick came to our ancestors 1,500 years ago promising happiness here no less than happiness hereafter. It was the pursuit of such an Ireland that later made our country worthy to be called the island of saints and scholars."
Michael Collins
Éamon De Valera

Douglas Hyde
Michael D. Higgins
'What is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved and elegant friend." Which royal was attacking modern British architecture in 1984?
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Charles, Prince of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales
'Duty - ___ - Country'. Complete the speech by former US General Douglas MacArthur in 1962?
Loyalty
Honour

Family
God
"We British are as much heirs to the legacy of European culture as any other nation." Name the British politician?
Margaret Thatcher
John Major

Tony Blair
Nigel Farage
"We need an army, which would give us powerful strength for the inevitable coming struggle with international imperialism."
Leon Trotsky
Vladimir Lenin

Joseph Stalin
James Connolly
"I sincerely believe that your future is as promising as your past is proud, and that your destiny lies not as a peaceful island in a sea of troubles, but as a maker and shaper of world peace." Who was speaking on a visit to Ireland?
Bill Clinton
John F. Kennedy

Ronald Reagan
Joe Biden
"____score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." Begin MLK's famous I Have a Dream' speech from 1963.
Four
Five

Six
Seven
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Lovely result
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'I'll take it'
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    Aug 23rd 2020, 11:53 PM

    Phil Hogan SHOULD GO

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    Aug 24th 2020, 4:05 AM

    @Seanboy: and yes he should tunc

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    Aug 24th 2020, 7:48 AM

    @Seanboy: As Shakespeare said: Stand not on the manner of thy going but get thee gone. [name the play]

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    Aug 24th 2020, 10:58 AM

    @Seanboy: givevBig Phil a rise and state car.. that’s more likely to happen than him getting sacked !

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    Aug 24th 2020, 10:59 AM

    @Garreth Byrne: twelfth night… ?! I think

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    Aug 24th 2020, 1:50 PM

    @Pat Kelly: Lady Macbeth: Stand not upon the order of your going,
    But go at once. Act 3:4

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    Aug 24th 2020, 5:32 PM

    @Garreth Byrne: “The Scottish play”?

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    Aug 23rd 2020, 11:29 PM

    Thatcher…what a knut she was.

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    Aug 23rd 2020, 10:08 PM

    D-elicious

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    Aug 23rd 2020, 10:33 PM

    Five score years.????.MLK …….OOPS…I still got a heap wrong but coukdnt resist

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    Aug 24th 2020, 7:15 AM

    @Gerry Campbell: MLK “5 score years ago” …. Abe Lincoln “4 score and 7 years ago” (at gettysburg)

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    Aug 24th 2020, 8:44 AM

    @Aidan Mitchell: I made the same mix up too.

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    Aug 24th 2020, 10:43 AM

    @Gerry Campbell: Yup. I fell for it too…….

    Always my downfall, not reading the whole question!

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    Aug 24th 2020, 5:34 PM

    @Gerry Campbell: That caught me out too. And I clicked on the wrong Roosevelt,. More reading to do!

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    Aug 23rd 2020, 10:08 PM

    9/10, happy with that!

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    Aug 23rd 2020, 10:47 PM

    5 outa 10

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    Aug 23rd 2020, 11:26 PM

    8/10 happy with that.

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    Aug 24th 2020, 11:20 AM

    Only 8/10, but inaccuracy in quiz. Prince Charles was speaking at the 150th anniversary dinner of the Royal Society of British Architects, and was denouncing as a’carbuncle’ Ahrends Burton Horalek’s extension to the National Gallery, the ‘much-loved friend’.

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    Aug 24th 2020, 7:38 PM

    Try scoring nil and get yourself a laugh.

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    Aug 24th 2020, 4:05 AM

    D AH JASUSE THAT WAS HARD BUT I HOT THE MAGIE ONÉ

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    Aug 24th 2020, 7:39 PM

    @BriP75: hic

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