D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Ears
    2. Bookstore
    3. Fan
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Brass
    2. Plane
    3. Teen
  3. Speaker 3


    1. Model
    2. Scissors
    3. Notebook
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Leg
    2. Taxi
    3. Egg
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Sandwich
    2. Doctor
    3. Tunnel
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Jewelry
    2. Treehouse
    3. Balloon
  7. Speaker 7


    1. Cookware
    2. Donkey
    3. Baby

Round 2 - 9:30am

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Better late than never.
    2. A leopard doesn’t change its spots 
    3. If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. --Chinese Proverb
  2. Speaker 2


    1. I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. --Irish proverb
    2. Two wrongs don’t make a right
    3. Even the best cooking pot will not produce food. --African proverb
  3. Speaker 3


    1. When in Rome, do as the Romans do
    2. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
    3. When the roots of a tree begin to decay, it spreads death to the branches. --Nigerian proverb
  4. Speaker 4


    1. The man who has luck in the morning has luck in the afternoon. --Irish proverb
    2. If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building or do you change the nail? --Rwandan proverb
    3. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 
  5. Speaker 5


    1. What goes around comes around 
    2. There's no such thing as a free lunch. 
    3. You have little power over what’s not yours. --Zimbabwean proverb
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Slander by the stream will be heard by the frogs. --Mozambican proverb
    2. You can’t judge a book by its cover. 
    3. When it rains, it pours.
  7. Speaker 7


    1. A child is a child of everyone. --Sudanese proverb
    2. Better late than never 
    3. The pen is mightier than the sword

Round 3 - 10:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Sorrow
    2. Gain
    3. Strength
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Union
    2. Delight
    3. Relief
  3. Speaker 3


    1. Cleverness
    2. Defeat
    3. Laughter
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Shock
    2. Love
    3. Worry
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Tiredness
    2. Coldness
    3. Speed
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Growth
    2. Advantage
    3. Dream
  7. Speaker 7


    1. Fear
    2. Courage
    3. Hatred

Finals - 12:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. --Albert Einstein
    2. Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. --Donald Rumsfeld
    3. Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. --George Washington
  2. Speaker 2


    1. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
    2. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. --Abraham Maslow
    3. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. --Stephen Covey
  3. Speaker 3


    1. A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue --James Monroe
    2. The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. --Aldous Huxley
    3. Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. --Ben Horowitz
  4. Speaker 4


    1. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. --Albert Einstein
    2. Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. --Anwar Sadat
    3. People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. --Hermann Hesse
  5. Speaker 5


    1. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. --Andrew Carnegie
    2. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    3. Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. --Aesop
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Humor is healing. --Brad Garrett
    2. The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. --Antisthenes
    3. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. --Warren Buffett
  7. Speaker 7


    1. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. --Maya Angelou
    2. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. --Mother Teresa
    3. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. --John Zenger