B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 1:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Oven

    Palm

    Ambulance

  2. Speaker 2


    Couch

    Conditioner

    Suit

  3. Speaker 3


    Bridge

    Glasses

    Bookstore

  4. Speaker 4


    Belt

    Bulb

    Doctor

  5. Speaker 5


    Tablet

    Bitterness

    Notebook

  6. Speaker 6


    Architect

    Head

    Zebra

  7. Speaker 7


    Pouch

    Cinema

    Cookware

Round 2 - 3:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Liberty

    experience

    Laughter

  2. Speaker 2


    Perseverance

    Argument

    motivation

  3. Speaker 3


    Failure

    excitement

    Generation

  4. Speaker 4


    memory

    Relaxation

    patriotism

  5. Speaker 5


    Ability

    helpfulness

    sympathy

  6. Speaker 6


    hearsay

    Growth

    Communication

  7. Speaker 7


    Adventure

    Opinion

    Charity

Round 3 - 4:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    If you carry the egg basket do not dance. --Ambede proverb

    Blood is thicker than water 

    Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

  2. Speaker 2


    A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. --African Proverb

    Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great. --Chinese Proverb

    In hardship, we see true friendship. --Chinese Proverb

  3. Speaker 3


    The only free cheese is in the mousetrap.

    Least said, soonest mended.

    Good wine needs no bush.

  4. Speaker 4


    Enjoy it while it lasts 

    May the wind always be at your back. --Irish proverb

    Pen is mightier than the sword 

  5. Speaker 5


    You cannot name a child that is not born. --African proverb

    Strike while the iron is hot

    Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

  6. Speaker 6


    Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.

    A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

    Better safe than sorry

  7. Speaker 7


    A needle is not sharp at both ends. --Chinese Proverb

    Absence makes heart grow fonder.

    Variety is the spice of life.

Finals - 5:45pm

  1. Speaker 1


    I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. --Woodrow Wilson

    I don't care about the money. I care about the game. --Narcos

    The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead. --BoJack Horseman

  2. Speaker 2


    “A person who is demoralized is unable to accept true information.” --— Yuri Bezmenov

    You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. --Andrew Carnegie

    Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for. --Joseph Heller (Catch 22)

  3. Speaker 3


    Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace. --Bryant McGill

    The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. --Babe Ruth

    “You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.” --— Steven Soderbergh

  4. Speaker 4


    Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. --General George Patton

    Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. --Aldous Huxley

    I don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad --The Little Mermaid

  5. Speaker 5


    An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. --Aldous Huxley

    "If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.” --— George Bernard Shaw

    He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. --Muhammad Ali

  6. Speaker 6


    Oh, my God, they killed Kenny! --South Park

    "I help." --— Krzystof Kieslowski (When asked what a director does)

    As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. --Andrew Carnegie

  7. Speaker 7


    Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are. --G. Edward Griffin

    When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth." --Khaled Hosseini

    You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built in the human plan. We come with it. --Margareth Atwood