B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 1:30pm
Speaker 1
Lighter
Turtle
Garlic
Speaker 2
Bucket
Hotel
Kid
Speaker 3
Music
Shower
Lawyer
Speaker 4
Saxophone
Pencil
Cat
Speaker 5
Television
Temple
Trousers
Speaker 6
Brother
Gown
Sunglasses
Speaker 7
Cafe
Ears
Armchair
Round 2 - 3:00pm
Speaker 1
Strength
rumor
Disregard
Speaker 2
Luck
Evil
Poverty
Speaker 3
Deceit
Insanity
Riches
Speaker 4
Artisty
Dishonesty
consideration
Speaker 5
Loss
Fact
self-discipline
Speaker 6
Belief
Trust
Care
Speaker 7
honor
Idea
improvement
Round 3 - 4:15pm
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.
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
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.
Speaker 4
Watch the doughnut and not the hole
Long absent, soon forgotten.
You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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