B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 1:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Lighter

    Turtle

    Garlic

  2. Speaker 2


    Bucket

    Hotel

    Kid

  3. Speaker 3


    Music

    Shower

    Lawyer

  4. Speaker 4


    Saxophone

    Pencil

    Cat

  5. Speaker 5


    Television

    Temple

    Trousers

  6. Speaker 6


    Brother

    Gown

    Sunglasses

  7. Speaker 7


    Cafe

    Ears

    Armchair

Round 2 - 3:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Strength

    rumor

    Disregard

  2. Speaker 2


    Luck

    Evil

    Poverty

  3. Speaker 3


    Deceit

    Insanity

    Riches

  4. Speaker 4


    Artisty

    Dishonesty

    consideration

  5. Speaker 5


    Loss

    Fact

    self-discipline

  6. Speaker 6


    Belief

    Trust

    Care

  7. Speaker 7


    honor

    Idea

    improvement

Round 3 - 4:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. --African Proverb

    Flattery, like perfume, should be smelled but not swallowed.

    The highest branch is not the safest roost.

  2. Speaker 2


    Facts beat eloquence. --Chinese Proverb

    Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. --Chinese Proverb

    The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree 

  3. Speaker 3


    If you can’t beat them, join them.

    A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. --Irish proverb

    An idle brain is devil’s workshop.

  4. Speaker 4


    Watch the doughnut and not the hole 

    Long absent, soon forgotten.

    You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

  5. Speaker 5


    A drowning man will clutch a straw.

    Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away. --Chinese Proverb

    Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. --Chinese Proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    Here’s health to your enemies’ enemies! --Irish proverb

    Seeing is different than being told. --African Proverb

    No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun. --Chinese Proverb

  7. Speaker 7


    Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. 

    A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

    Timely return of a loan makes it easier to borrow a second time. --Chinese Proverb

Finals - 5:45pm

  1. Speaker 1


    "Soon it is going to rain and my roses will drown.” --— Reinaldo Arenas

    Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Beauty and folly are old companions. --Benjamin Franklin

  2. Speaker 2


    It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do! --Fred Rogers

    The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness. --Fred Rogers

    The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. --Albert Einstein

  3. Speaker 3


    Your eyes can deceive you; don’t trust them. --Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

    I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish. --Anna Kendrick

    You're mad. Bonkers. Off your head. But I'll tell you a secret, all the best people are --Alice in Wonderland

  4. Speaker 4


    The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. --Sir Winston Churchill

    Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. --Albert Einstein

    Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. --James Freeman Clarke

  5. Speaker 5


    “Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.” --— Desmond Tutu

    There's a part of all of us that longs to know that even what's weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count for something good. --Fred Rogers

    When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. --Bayard Rustin

  6. Speaker 6


    A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. --Mickey Mantle

    It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. --Albert Einstein

    It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. --Theodore Roosevelt

  7. Speaker 7


    I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change. --DeRay Mckesson

    Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. --Benjamin Franklin

    You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt