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