B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00 a.m. Pacific

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Concrete Nouns

    1. Airport

    2. Butter

    3. Costume
  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Concrete Nouns

    1. Donkey

    2. Eyes

    3. Factory
  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.

    Concrete Nouns

    1. Guitar

    2. Hospital

    3. Jacket
  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.

    Concrete Nouns

    1. Kangaroo

    2. Luggage

    3. Mirror
  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Concrete Nouns

    1. Newspaper

    2. Onion

    3. Peacock
  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Concrete Nouns

    1. Radio

    2. Shark

    3. Taxi
  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Concrete Nouns

    1. Umbrella

    2. Violin

    3. Wolf

Round 2 - 11:30 a.m. Pacific

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Abstract Nouns

    1. Advantage

    2. Balance

    3. Clarity
  2. Speaker 2


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    Abstract Nouns

    1. Death

    2. Envy

    3. Fascination
  3. Speaker 3


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    Abstract Nouns

    1. Generation

    2. Horror

    3. Intelligence
  4. Speaker 4


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    Abstract Nouns

    1. Joy

    2. Luck

    3. Mercy
  5. Speaker 5


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    Abstract Nouns

    1. Opportunity

    2. Poverty

    3. Reality
  6. Speaker 6


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    Abstract Nouns

    1. Sacrifice

    2. Talent

    3. Uncertainty
  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Abstract Nouns

    1. Victory

    2. Warmth

    3. Yearning

Round 3 - 3:00 p.m. Pacific

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Proverbs

    1. When the going gets tough the tough get going

    2. Actions speak louder than words

    3. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs

  2. Speaker 2


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    Proverbs

    1. Never look a gift horse in the mouth

    2. All good things come to an end

    3. Too many cooks spoil the broth
  3. Speaker 3


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    Proverbs

    1. A penny saved is a penny earned

    2. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link

    3. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer.


    Proverbs

    1. Two wrongs don't make a right

    2. Familiarity breeds contempt

    3. Beggars can't be choosers
  5. Speaker 5


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    Proverbs

    1. Discretion is the greater part of valor

    2. When in Rome, do as the Romans

    3. If it ain't broke, don't fix it
  6. Speaker 6


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    Proverbs

    1. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones

    2. There's no such thing as a free lunch

    3. Birds of a feather flock together
  7. Speaker 7


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    Proverbs

    1. One man's trash is another man's treasure

    2. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink

    3. Fortune favors the bold

Elim 2 - 4:30 p.m. Pacific

  1. Speaker 1


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    1. If I had known what it would be like to have it all, I might have been willing to settle for less - Lily Tomlin

    2. We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by - Will Rogers

    3. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now - Martin Luther King Jr.

  2. Speaker 2


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    1. Success has ruined many a man - Benjamin Franklin

    2. The "C" students run the world - Harry S. Truman

    3. Knowing what must be done does away with fear - Rosa Parks

  3. Speaker 3


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    1. Success is the sweetest revenge - Venessa Williams

    2. The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection - George Orwell

    3. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  4. Speaker 4


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    1. How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: try too hard - Malcolm Forbes

    2. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory - Friedrich Engels

    3. If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all - Noam Chomsky


  5. Speaker 5


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    1. There is always room at the top - Daniel Webster

    2. Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast - William Shakespeare

    3. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools - Martin Luther King, Jr.

  6. Speaker 6


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    1. In war there is no second prize for the runner-up - General Omar Bradley

    2. The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing - Anonymous

    3. Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself - Robert Green Ingersoll

  7. Speaker 7


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    1. Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase - Dottie Walters

    2. You give 100% in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left - Yogi Berra

    3. Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority - Albert Camus

  8. Speaker 8




Elim 1 - 6:00 p.m. Pacific

  1. Speaker 1


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    Quotations

    1. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them  so much  -  Oscar Wilde

    2. Attention to health is life greatest hindrance - Plato

    3. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams - John Barrymore

  2. Speaker 2


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    Quotations

    1. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for - John A. Shedd

    2. If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams - Les Brown

    3. For laws are silent when arms are raised - Cicero
  3. Speaker 3


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    Quotations

    1. Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep - Fran Lebowitz

    2. Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    3. A man may learn wisdom even from a foe - Aristophanes
  4. Speaker 4


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    Quotations

    1. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes - Cato the Elder

    2. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty - Jeremy Benthem

    3. He who limps still walks - Stanislaw Lec
  5. Speaker 5


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    Quotations

    1. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door - Emily Dickinson

    2. Fear breeds fear - Byron Janis

    3. Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point is to change it - Karl Marx

  6. Speaker 6


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    Quotations

    1. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together - George Lichtenberg

    2. The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do - B.F. Skinner

    3. Man is by nature a political animal - Aristotle

  7. Speaker 7


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    Quotations

    1. As soon as there is life, there is danger - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    2. Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure - Grant Tinker

    3. The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates