Rhetoric
Texas Trivia
Unusual words
Great Scholars
Great Speeches
100

The author of The Rhetoric

Who was Aristotle?

100

Texas first national park was Big Bend. This was it's second.

What is the Guadalupe Mountains national park?

100

covfefe


What is a word that Donald Trump used on his twitter feed?

100

Developed the concept of identification in public address.

Who was Edmund Burke?
100

Was shot in the head for attending school as a girl. Later spoke at the United Nations.

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

200

Aristotle's most famous student

Who was Alexander the Great?

200

Existed from 1836 to 1846

What is the Republic of Texas?

200

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

What is a word that Mary Poppins advises you to say when you are not sure what to say?

200

Proposed that time was a 4th dimension and was related to speed.

Who was Einstein?

200

This speech was considered the pinnacle of the civil rights movement in the U.S.

What is King's "I have a dream" speech?

300

A Greek term for the perfect moment, time, for something (as in the right time to make a persuasive speech).

What is kairos?

300

This lady became governor after her husband could no longer run for the office after he was impeached.

Who was Ma Ferguson?

300

Philologist

What do you call a scholar of language and speech?

300

Invented penicillin

Who was Alexander Fleming?

300

This speaker overcame stuttering in order to address his nation on the necessity of war.

Who was King George VI of Britain?

400

These Greek scholars were derided by Plato and Aristotle because they taught the skills of speaking without an underpinning in philosophy and ethics.

Who were the Sophists?

400

Texan who is credited for developing "western swing" music.

Who was Bob Wills?

400

Reification

A concrete or material expression of a concept that is abstract or immaterial.

400

The taxonomy of educational objectives in the cognitive domain.

Who was Benjamin Bloom?

400
Common title for a speech made by Patrick Henry to the Virginia Convention when confronting a possible war with Britain.

What is "give me liberty or give me death"?

500

Perhaps the most famous Roman speaker. His speeches were made in the Roman Senate.

Who was Cicero?

500

Rescued after being scalped by Comanches when a ghost appeared to his wife and told her where to look for him. He lived 12 more years before striking his head on a low door threshold.

Who was Josiah Willbarger? (e.g. Willbarger County)

500

Intensionally oriented

What happens when we understand things based on our feelings and perceptions rather than external evidence. The s in intensional is there intentionally.

500

Credited as the inventor of radio

Who was Guglielmo Marconi?

500

Admiral William McRaven's commencement speech with this title was so popular that he later became Chancellor of UT.

What was the "make your bed" speech?

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