B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00 a.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Speaker 1

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  stone


    2.  rose


    3.  dictionary


  2. Speaker 2


    Speaker 2

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  mirror


    2.  hair


    3.  tie

  3. Speaker 3


    Speaker 3

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  glue


    2.  waterfall


    3.  skin

       
  4. Speaker 4


    Speaker 4

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  cinnamon


    2.  phone


    3.  egg

  5. Speaker 5


    Speaker 5

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  pillow


    2.  calculator


    3.  lipstick

  6. Speaker 6



    Speaker 6

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  tape


    2.  stroller


    3.  window

Round 2 - 9:30 a.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Speaker 1

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  spite


    2.  gloom


    3.  rejection


  2. Speaker 2


    Speaker 2

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  worthlessness


    2.  bitterness


    3.  desire

  3. Speaker 3


    Speaker 3

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  beauty


    2.  pain


    3.  bravery

  4. Speaker 4


    Speaker 4

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  joyousness


    2.  anxiety


    3.  regret

  5. Speaker 5


    Speaker 5

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  affection


    2.  selfishness


    3.  jealousy

  6. Speaker 6


    Speaker 6

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  hostility


    2.  ugly


    3.  vanity


Round 3 - 1:00 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Speaker 1

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  It is no use fixing our minds on higher things if we ignore what is going on around us.


    2.  Traitors must expect treachery.


    3.  Laugh and the world laughs with you.

  2. Speaker 2


    Speaker 2

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.


    2.  We need to be helped, not scolded, when we are in trouble.


    3.  Stretch your arm no farther than your sleeve will reach.   

  3. Speaker 3


    Speaker 3

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  It is no use having bright ideas unless we are willing to put them into practice.


    2.  Most arguments are useless.


    3.  Something which seems funny when it happens to someone else, may not seem so funny when it happens to us.

  4. Speaker 4


    Speaker 4

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  It's easy to speak badly of things you can't have.


    2.  We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.


    3.  We had better be careful what we say in case people take us at our word.


  5. Speaker 5


    Speaker 5

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  Someone who is always changing cannot expect others to regard him as one particular thing.


    2.  It is sometime possible to gain by persuasion what cannot be gained by force.


    3.  We tend to blame others for our own mistakes.

  6. Speaker 6


    Speaker 6

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  We are not always grateful for help when it is offered.


    2.  There is no virtue in giving someone something we do not want ourselves.


    3.  Look before you leap.

Elim 1 - 4:00 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Speaker 1

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.”— Doug Larson


    2.  "Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.”— James Russell Lowell


    3.  “I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work.”  — Henry Ford

  2. Speaker 2


    Speaker 2

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education."— Frédéric Bastiat


    2.  "You always pass failure on the way to success.”— Mickey Rooney


    3.  "Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”— George Sand

  3. Speaker 3


    Speaker 3

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "Never let the truth get in the way of a good movie."— Jack Epps, Jr.


    2.  "There will be many fire alarms in your life, but few fires.”— Adam Carolla


    3.  “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." — Robert Frost

  4. Speaker 4


    Speaker 4

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."— Mark Twain


    2.  “Cynics say a lot of things that sound true because they appeal to the defeatist inside us." — Darryl Strawberry


    3.  "A man with no enemies is a man with no character." — Paul Newman

  5. Speaker 5


    Speaker 5

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." — Leonardo da Vinci


    2.  "Society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government."— Thomas Paine


    3.  "Stories unite people. Theories divide them."— Dr. James Billington (Librarian of Congress)

  6. Speaker 6


    Speaker 6

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us."— Charles Bukowski


    2.  "If there's anything important about history, it's that stupidity wins."— Jerry Casale, Member of Devo


    3.  "History only tastes bitter to those who thought it would taste sugar-coated.” — The film Sans Soliel


  7. Speaker 7


    Speaker 7

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder." — George Washington


    2.  "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."— Ralph Waldo Emerson 


    3.  "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."— Voltaire

  8. Speaker 8


    Speaker 7

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war."— R. Lee Ermey


    2.  ""I rant, therefore I am." — Dennis Miller 


    3.  “It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there."— Mia Hamm

Elim 2 - 7:30 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Speaker 1

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "There's a lot of whiners in every crowd."— R. Lee Ermey 


    2.  “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it.  It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible.  Don’t put a ceiling on yourself." — Oprah Winfrey


    3.  “I’d rather be No. 2 forever than No. 1 for a while.”  — Paul Smith

  2. Speaker 2


    Speaker 2

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "You gotta be good.  You gotta be strong.  You gotta be 2,000 places at once."— Tim Delaughter


    2.  "If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."— George Bernard Shaw


    3.  "Luck is the residue of design." — Branch Rickey

  3. Speaker 3


    Speaker 3

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."— Ingrid Bergman


    2.  “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ― E.L. Doctorow


    3.  “At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous.” — Ernst Lubitsch

  4. Speaker 4


    Speaker 4

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "You can't put paradise in a tour book.  You have to discover it." — Elna Baker


    2.  "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."- Oscar Wilde's last words


    3.  "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” — e.e. Cummings


  5. Speaker 5


    Speaker 5

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "Being powerful is like being a lady.  If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."— Margaret Thatcher


    2.  "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."— George Bernard Shaw


    3.  "Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.” — Peter Bilak


  6. Speaker 6


    Speaker 6

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  "There is no man that is free from all evil, nor any man that is so evil to be worth nothing. "— David Castillo's last words, executed in Texas on Aug. 23, 1998


    2.  "A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic." — George Bernard Shaw


    3.  "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” — Oscar Wilde

Finals - 5:00 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Speaker 1

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. – Buddha


    2.  I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back. – Leo Tolstoy


    3.  The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  2. Speaker 2


    Speaker 2

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. – Socrates


    2.  Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. – Plato


    3.  The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. – Epicurus

  3. Speaker 3


    Speaker 3

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. – Carl Jung


    2.  Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn


    3.  Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right. – Joel Osteen


  4. Speaker 4


    Speaker 4

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain


    2.  The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear. – Mahatma Gandhi


    3.  To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell

  5. Speaker 5


    Speaker 5

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  To do two things at once is to do neither. – Publilius Syrus


    2.  When you’re in love make sure you really are in love and not just in love with the idea of being in love. – Anonymous


    3.  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. — James Madison


  6. Speaker 6


    Speaker 6

    Please copy + paste the following topics into the chat window of your competition room.


    1.  Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future. – José Ingenieros


    2.  They say marriages are made in Heaven. But, so is thunder and lightning. – Clint Eastwood


    3.  If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. – Yogi Berra