History prompt
Name a famous speech in history — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a famous speech in history” in a dive? Here is how to think rare: the best picks, the safe backups, and the crowd defaults to avoid. Every answer below is real and valid — rarity decides the tier.
Best rare pick: Pericles' Funeral Oration — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): The Gettysburg Address, I Have a Dream — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Pericles' Funeral Oration · Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July speech
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman · Washington's Farewell Address
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty speech · Lincoln's House Divided speech
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
JFK's Moon speech · Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
JFK's Ask Not speech · Churchill's Finest Hour speech
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
The Gettysburg Address · I Have a Dream
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a famous speech in history” — not generic advice.
History prompts punish the textbook answer. Think past the bolded names.
Lead with Pericles' Funeral Oration. It's the kind of answer that makes other players say 'I knew that!' after the reveal — which is exactly why they didn't type it. Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman works the same way if you want a second bullet in the chamber.
Watch out for The Gettysburg Address. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. I Have a Dream has the same problem: everyone knows it, so everyone types it, so it scores like everyone.
The middle of the bank tells the real story: Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty speech lands in Rare while The Gettysburg Address sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Build yourself a mental shelf for this prompt: Washington's Farewell Address, Lincoln's House Divided speech, Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman. They're different answers, same rarity neighborhood — and that neighborhood is where dives are won.
Rated 4/5 difficulty — only 12 banked answers, so matching the bank is genuinely hard. Precision matters more than speed here.
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