What is public speaking?
Public speaking is the act of performing a speech to a live audience in a structured manner, in order to inform, entertain and persuade them.
When and where did the study of public speaking begin?
The study of public speaking began about 2,500 years ago in ancient Athens.
Who was a Greek philosopher defined rhetoric as the means of persuasion in reference to any subject?
Aristotle
Who introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who He even died for his beliefs, after being sentenced to death for corrupting the minds of young Athenians?
Socrates
Who said: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
Julius Caesar
Who was a leader capable of bringing his nation’s citizens back together during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Who gave his most famous speech “The Gettysburg Address”?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the British Prime Minister during WW2?
Winston Churchill
When London was suffering from its worst bombardment during the Blitz, whose speeches motivated the British to “never surrender”?
Winston Churchill
Whose speech “We Choose to Go to the Moon” is considered as one of the most influential to persuade the Americans for the space expedition to the moon.
John F. Kennedy
His most famous speech, “I Have a Dream” has been listen to by millions since he delivered it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who helped spread the idea of free markets, fought the Falklands War and dealt with problems in Northern Ireland?
Margaret Thatcher
Who led India to independence from the British through a campaign of nonviolent resistance?
Mahatma Gandhi
