2021 NOF Quarter 1 Speech and Debate Tournament

NOF - Oct 16 | Status: Completed | 10:18 PM Pacific

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  A. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

College & Middle School Round 1 - 8:00 a.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Organic

    Rusty

    Broken

     

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Strong

    Puzzled

    Ruffled

     

  3. Speaker 3


     

    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Fuzzy

    Rigid

    Shiny

     

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Spooky

    Obedient

    Slick

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Stinky

    Bright

    Rough

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Frigid

    Sweet

    Painful

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Loyal

    Sleek

    Flexible

College & Middle School Round 2 - 9:15 a.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Goal

    Lie

    Wealth

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Death

    Thrill

    Beauty

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Love

    Riches

    Ability

     

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Loss

    Idea

    Irritation

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Mercy

    Speed

    Crime

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Fiction

    Joy

    Trend

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

     

    Belief

    Envy

    Fashion

     

College & Middle School Round 3 - 10:30 a.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. I married beneath me. All women do. --Lady Nancy Astor

    2. I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much. --Newt Gingrich

    3. The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. --Lady Reading

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. --Julius Henry Marx

    2. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. --Harry Emerson Fosdick

    3. Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. --William Shakespeare

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. --Mark Twain

    2. On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction. --Bhagavad Gita

    3. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. --Edward Gibbon

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. --Ambrose Bierce

    2. Fortune favors the brave. --Virgil

    3. Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. --

      Julius Henry Marx

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress. --Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

    2. When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. --Prince Otto

    3. Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. --Bill Vaughan

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. --Francis Bacon

    2. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. --George Santayana

    3. But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus. --Henry Louis

      Mencken

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. --Winifred Holtby

    2. Skill to do comes of doing. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

    3. The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. --Ronald Reagan

College & Middle School Finals - 12:00 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 1

    1. The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. --Ayn Rand

    2. In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. --Bertrand Russell

    3. Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing. --Vince Lombardi

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 2

    1. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. --William Arthur Ward

    2. Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court --Richard Milhous

      Nixon

    3. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. --Marcel Proust

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 3

    1. Integrity has no need of rules. --Albert Camus

    2. Every path has its puddle. --English Proverb

    3. I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo, I'd have all my money back. --Jack Handey

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 4

    1. Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. --Scottish Proverb

    2. Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune. --Unknown

    3. The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies God in us. --Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker

      de Stal Stal

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 5

    1. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. --George Lucas

    2. It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar. --Tao Le Ching

    3. Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home, his face might burn up. --Jack Handey

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 6

    1. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. --Pope John Paul I

    2. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. --Pearl

      Sydenstricker Buck

    3. It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. --Eric Hoffer

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 7

    1. History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. --Abba Eban

    2. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. --Aristotle

    3. In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. --F. Scott Fitzgerald