Sensational Speeches
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country”
What is JFK’s inaugural address?
The elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016
What are the elections in which presidents lost the popular vote?
What is the armadillo?
She was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
This is known as “talking a bill to death.”
What is the filibuster?
The year Nato was founded.
What is 1949?
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
What is Ronald Reagan’s address at the Brandenburg Gate?
This election famously tested the new US democracy’s ability to sustain immediately following George Washington’s retirement after his second term.
What is the election of 1796?
These former US presidents have their presidential libraries in Texas.
Who are George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson?
This famous Revolutionary War General no longer has his name inscribed on his marker at the West Point Chapel.
Who is General Benedict Arnold?
This action is needed to stop a filibuster in the US Senate.
What is cloture?
This was the one and only country added to NATO in 2023.
What is Finland?
“...Is this part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty…”
What is Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death” speech?
This election marked the United States Supreme Court’s first involvement in a dispute of election protocol and vote counting.
What is the election of 2000?
This is the current Texas STATE property tax on the value of land owned.
What is 0%?
Appointed as the first Black Secretary of State, he served under President George W. Bush.
Who is Colin Powell?
This influential Senator from Wisconsin spearheaded the anti-communist crusades of the 1950s and chaired the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This NATO member does not have a standing army.
What is Iceland?
“... Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic…”
What is FDR’s D-Day prayer?
This amendment changed presidential voting to make the president and vice-president a “package deal.”
What is the 12th Amendment?
Texas is the only state with this independent infrastructure piece partially responsible for issues caused during the infamous 2021 freeze.
What is the Texas power/electric/ERCOT grid?
This former Speaker of the House, known for his "Contract with America," served from 1995 to 1999.
Who is Newt Gingrich?
This phrase was used during the Paris Peace Accords by Richard Nixon to end the Vietnam War.
What is "Peace with Honor"?
The signing of the original North Atlantic Treaty is popularly known as this.
What is the Washington Treaty?
“The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment…”
What is Schofield’s Definition of Discipline?
This election was a landslide victory for Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the Republication candidate, Alfred Langdon only getting 8 electoral votes.
What is the election of 1936?
Being more than any other US state, this is the number of counties in Texas.
What is 254?
This US Speaker of the House was known for rolling his own party members.
Who is John Boehner?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice presided over Brown v. Board of Education.
Who is Earl Warren?
NATO member countries have pledged to commit this minimum percentage of GDP on defense spending.
What is 2%?