Kultur Quiz Question (3)
1.1 Question:
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
(A) Who said this and (B) where and when was it said?
1.2 Question:
“If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the
uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests
and the laboring interest and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them,
you shall not press down upon the brow of labor the crown of thorns. You shall not crucity mankind upon a cross of
gold.”
(A) Who said this and (B) where and when was it said?
1.3 Question:
“I have a dream today! …
“And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring! …
“And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from
every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
(A) Who said this and (B) where and when was it said?
1.4 Question:
“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
(A) Who said this and (B) where and when was it said?
1.5 Question:
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
(A) Who said this and (B) where and when was it said?
1.6 Question:
“The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that ‘old soldiers never die; they just fade away.’
“And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do
his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.”
(A) Who said this and (B) where and when was it said?
1.7 Question:
“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, ‘Peace! Peace!’ — but there is no peace. The war is
actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our
brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is
life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know
not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
(A) Who said this and (B) where and when was it said?
1.8 Question:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
(A) Who said this and (B) where and when was it said?
Kultur Quiz Question (3) – Answers
| 1.1 | A. | Winston Churchill |
| B. | Fulton, Missouri, Westminster College, 5 March 1946 | |
| 1.2 | A. | William Jennings Bryan |
| B. | Chicago, Democratic National Convention, 9 July 1896 | |
| 1.3 | A. | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| B. | Washington D.C., Lincoln Memorial, 28 August 1963 | |
| 1.4 | A. | President John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| B. | Washington D.C., Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961 | |
| 1.5 | A. | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| B. | Washington D.C., First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1933 | |
| 1.6 | A. | General of the Army Douglas MacArthur |
| B. | Washington, D.C., Farewell Address to Congress, 19 April 1951 | |
| 1.7 | A. | Patrick Henry |
| B. | Richmond, Virginia, Second Virginia Convention, 23 March 1775 | |
| 1.8 | A. | President Abraham Lincoln |
| B. | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, “The Gettysburg Address,” 19 November 1863 |