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Famous speeches

Order these speeches by the year each was given. You place all 45 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the Famous Speeches timeline game

Every card is a celebrated speech, shown by its title or its most quoted line, with the speaker printed below. Your job is to order them by the year each was given. One speech is already on the timeline with its year in view. For each new card, pick the gap where you think it fits. A good call reveals the year; a bad one still puts the card in its rightful spot, but it costs you one of three lives.

Kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers, activists and even a ballplayer all take the stage here, from church councils and battlefields to stadiums and the floor of the United Nations. Wartime addresses come thick and fast, and a few famous voices appear more than once, so their careers become a handy ruler. Think about what was going on in the world when the words were spoken. A line you have heard quoted all your life may be much older than you expect.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 45 cards you might be dealt, with 17 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Call for the First Crusade Pope Urban II
  • Here I stand Martin Luther
  • Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry
  • Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth
  • A house divided Abraham Lincoln
  • Cross of Gold William Jennings Bryan
  • The Man in the Arena Theodore Roosevelt
  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Abdication broadcast Edward VIII
  • Blood, toil, tears and sweat Winston Churchill
  • Appeal of 18 June Charles de Gaulle
  • Four Freedoms Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Quit India Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sinews of Peace Winston Churchill
  • Old soldiers never die Douglas MacArthur
  • The Secret Speech Nikita Khrushchev
  • Wind of Change Harold Macmillan
  • Ask not what your country can do for you John F. Kennedy
  • We choose to go to the Moon John F. Kennedy
  • I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The Ballot or the Bullet Malcolm X
  • I've Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The lady's not for turning Margaret Thatcher
  • Evil empire Ronald Reagan
  • Read my lips: no new taxes George H. W. Bush
  • Women's rights are human rights Hillary Clinton
  • The People's Princess Tony Blair
  • The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama

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