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Name a famous speech in history

This prompt carries 12 accepted answers in the Krillion Infinite bank, ranked from the response everyone gives to the one almost nobody finds — its One in a Krillion answer is Pericles' Funeral Oration. The full ranking is below; treat it as training, because this prompt can surface in any Unlimited, Marathon, or pack dive.

Name a famous speech in history

🫧 Plankton (10 pts): The Gettysburg Address, I Have a Dream

🤡 Too Clever (15 pts): JFK's Ask Not speech, Churchill's Finest Hour speech

🐟 Schooler (30 pts): JFK's Moon speech, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

🦑 Rare (60 pts): Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty speech, Lincoln's House Divided speech

🏮 Deep Cut (85 pts): Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman, Washington's Farewell Address

🌟 One in a Krillion (100 pts): Pericles' Funeral Oration, Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July speech

How to play this prompt

Under the clock, your first instinct here is the Plankton answer — it is first for a reason. The scoring lives further down the list: skip your first two ideas, picture the category from an unusual angle (a different country, decade, species, or use than the obvious one), and you are fishing in Rare and Deep Cut water. If the clock hits five seconds with nothing better, submit the safe answer — a Schooler in hand beats a timeout every time.

Prompts in the history shelf of the bank reward breadth more than trivia depth: the rarest answers are rarely the hardest facts, they are the valid answers the crowd's habits skip. That is why this page exists — seeing the tail of one prompt teaches you the shape of every prompt like it.

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