On December 1 this year, Rahul Dravid delivered the third edition of the Pataudi Memorial Lecture instituted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. This quiz is about famous speeches.

And they spoke 1Who delivered the first MAK Pataudi Memorial lecture in 2013?

2Which ancient Greek was famous for his five Catiline speeches which are regularly quoted even now?

3Which great 19th century speech was delivered in a cemetery, had many similarities to Pericles’ funeral oration and has five existing manuscripts, all of which differ slightly from one another?

4Though it probably bears little similarity to what was actually said that day, which famous speech in a film was supposed to have been delivered on June 24, 1995. Name the film.

5In the ’50s, who delivered the longest speech ever on behalf of India to the UN Security Council?

6Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was renowned for his wartime rhetoric. Which group of people was he referring to in his speech to the parliament in August 1940 when he said, “Never in the history of mankind has so much been owed to so few?”

7Some of the most famous addresses in legal history were delivered by William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow during an important case in the US in 1925. What were they arguing about?

8On August 28, 2013, three American Presidents, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, gathered in Washington to commemorate which famous event in American history?

9Amitabh Bachchan delivered one of the funniest speeches ever about his English speaking abilities in the ’80s hit Namak Halal . Which two Pakistani cricketers were mentioned in the speech?

10Which 2010 Academy Award-winning film ends with an address from Buckingham Palace in 1939 declaring hostilities against the state of Germany and starting World War II?

Answers

1. Former captain and teammate Sunil Gavaskar

2. Cicero, believed to have introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy

3. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

4. Matt Damon as the South African rugby captain Francois Pienaar, asking his players to ‘listen to your country’, immortalised in the film Invictus

5. VK Krishna Menon, to block the passage of a resolution. Apparently, he did not once repeat himself over those eight hours

6. The pilots and crew of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain

7. The Theory of Evolution. John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in his school

8. The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s epic speech ‘I have a dream’

9. Wasim Raja and Wasim Bari — the dialogues were written by a young Kader Khan

10.The Kings Speech — which was all about King George V and his speech therapist Lionel Logue

Joy Bhattacharjyais a quizmaster and Project Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup

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