A. Adult Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:00am
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
"It's in our hands." — Jill Stein 2016
"We are the ones we've been waiting for." – Barack Obama 2008
"We are turning the corner." — Herbert Hoover 1932
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
"We're all in this together." — Beto O’Rourke 2020
“Yes we can.” — Barack Obama 2008
"Tell the Truth!" — Grover Cleveland 1884
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
"Our Future Is Now." — Tim Ryan 2020
"We Can Do Better." — John F. Kennedy 1960
"We are going to win this war and the peace that follows." – Franklin D. Roosevelt 1944
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
"Our best days still lie ahead." — Joe Biden 2020
"It's Time to Change America." – Bill Clinton 1992
"Some people talk change, others cause it." – Hubert Humphrey 1968
Round 2 - 9:00am
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
"Money can't buy life."
— Bob Marley, Jamaican musician
"I knew it! Born in a goddamned hotel room, and dying in a hotel room."
— Eugene O'Neill, American playwright
"The drama's over. Applaud."
— Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
"I'm finished. I don't even trust myself."
— Joseph Stalin
"I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is correct."
— Dominique Bouhours, French priest and grammarian
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart..."
— Anne Frank, German diarist
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
"At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves."
— George Orwell, English author, dying at the age of 46
“Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”
— Karl Marx, political theorist
"All the damn fool things you do in life you pay for."
— Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
— Huey P. Newton, American activist
"I'm bored with it all."
— Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom
"Happy."
— Raphael, Italian artist
Round 3 - 10:00am
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
“When people show you who they are, believe them.” — Maya Angelou
“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.” — Anais Nin
“We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both.” — Susan Sontag
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me ‘I love you.’” — Maya Angelou
“We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.” — Anais Nin
“I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.” — Susan Sontag
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.” — Maya Angelou
“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.” — Anais Nin
“Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking.” — Susan Sontag
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.” — Anais Nin
“So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.” — Susan Sontag
Round 4 - 11:00am
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
“If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards.” — Tommy Boy
“We scare because we care.” — Monsters, Inc.
“Love is a force of nature.” — Brokeback Mountain
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
“Whoever wins, we lose.” — Alien vs. Predator
“Great trilogies come in threes.” — Scary Movie 3
“There is no gene for the human spirit.” — Gattaca
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
“Family isn’t a word. It’s a sentence.” — The Royal Tenenbaums
“Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you.” — Clerks
“Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions." — Donnie Darko
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
“You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” — The Social Network
“On every street in every city in this country, there is a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.” — Taxi Driver
“The future is history.” — 12 Monkeys
Elimination Round 1 - 1:00pm
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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It is estimated that 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. — New York Times, 2014
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60% of people can’t get through a ten-minute conversation without lying. — University of Massachusetts, 2002
2% of American voters thought Mitt Romney’s first name was Mittens. — Vanity Fair, 2012
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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20% of the songs on Spotify have received zero plays.
— Forgotify, 2014
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28% of people who work in IT don’t tell their family and friends for fear of being asked for help fixing computers.
— TEKsystems, 2013
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70% of youth in the juvenile justice system have a diagnosed mental illness.
— The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, 2007
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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60% of nursing home residents never have visitors.
— VolunteerGuide, 2013
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75% of Gen Z-ers don’t consider college the only path to a strong education.
— Forbes, 2019
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46% of American adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime.
— National Council for Behavioral Health, 2019
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
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As many as 95% of millennials are "not saving adequately" for retirement.
— National Institute on Retirement Security, 2018
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40% of Americans can’t name a single freedom protected by the First Amendment.
— Freedom Forum Institute, 2018
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Five countries make up 60% of worldwide military.
— Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2018
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