D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    Brother

    Milk

    Shower

  2. Speaker 2


    Bucket

    Ginger

    Tunnel

  3. Speaker 3


    Jacket

    Socks

    Senator

  4. Speaker 4


    Monkey

    Whisker

    Smoke

  5. Speaker 5


    Saxophone

    Swimming pool

    Toes

  6. Speaker 6


    Mother

    Stadium

    Smile

  7. Speaker 7


    Heels

    Lighter

    Koala

Round 2 - 9:30am

  1. Speaker 1


    Opportunity

    Dishonesty

    Tolerance

  2. Speaker 2


    speculation

    Horror

    Clarity

  3. Speaker 3


    forgiveness

    self-discipline

    Delight

  4. Speaker 4


    Union

    Speed

    Wit

  5. Speaker 5


    Solitude

    Advantage

    Silliness

  6. Speaker 6


    Pride

    Patience

    Trust

  7. Speaker 7


    Movement

    Maturity

    Deceit

Round 3 - 10:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    Use it or lose it.

    Earth is the queen of beds. --Namibian proverb

    Don't miss opportunities: time doesn't come round again. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    Look before you leap

    Family shames must not be spread abroad. --Chinese Proverb

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

  3. Speaker 3


    Two wrongs don’t make a right

    Good bargains empty the purse.

    Like people, like priest.

  4. Speaker 4


    May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live. --Irish proverb

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

    A rolling stone gathers no moss.

     

  5. Speaker 5


    Every dog has its day

    Let sleeping dogs lie.

    No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree. --African Proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    If you snooze, you lose.

    Beggars can’t be choosers.

    The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  7. Speaker 7


    You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was. --Irish proverb

    Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?

    An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend. --Senegalese proverb

Finals - 12:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. --William Shakespeare

    Your focus determines your reality. --Qui-Gon Jinn, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

    It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. --Albert Einstein

  2. Speaker 2


    It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. --Fred Rogers

    "For society is nothing but collaboration." --— Ludwig von Mises

    I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? --Benjamin Disraeli

  3. Speaker 3


    "When a bubble's gone, you don't see it anymore with your eyes. And when an opera is over, you don't hear it anymore with your ears. But you can remember it, and you’ll always have them with you in your memory.” --— Fred Rogers

    Even miracles take a little time --Pinocchio

    You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. --Fred Rogers

  4. Speaker 4


    Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. --Alice Walker

    I have learned over the years that when one’s mind s made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. --Rosa Parks

    We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means. --Martin Luther King Jr.

  5. Speaker 5


    Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. --Fred Rogers

    I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. --Anne Frank

    "The audience loves a slow thinker.” --— Buster Keaton

  6. Speaker 6


    In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. --Fred Rogers

    If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. --Benjamin Franklin

    Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people. --Warren Buffett