A. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true – Cinderella

    Love is putting someone else’s needs before yours. – Frozen

    The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of them all. – Mulan

  2. Speaker 2


    I was hiding under your porch because I love you. – Up

    If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothin’ at all. – Bambi

    Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. – Lilo & Stitch

  3. Speaker 3


    The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.– The Lion King

    I’m a damsel, I’m in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day. – Hercules

    Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them. – The AristoCats

  4. Speaker 4


    In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and—snap!—the job’s a game! – Mary Poppins

    You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.– Winnie the Pooh

    Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it. – Brave

  5. Speaker 5


    She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. – Beauty and the Beast

    You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. – Ratatouille

    Venture outside your comfort zone. The rewards are worth it. –Rapunzel

Round 2 - 9:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    It’s not my fault. – Han Solo

    Your focus determines your reality. – Qui-Gon Jinn

    Do. Or do not. There is no try. – Yoda

  2. Speaker 2


    Somebody has to save our skins. – Leia Organa

    In my experience there is no such thing as luck. – Obi-Wan Kenobi

    Always pass on what you have learned.-Yoda

  3. Speaker 3


    It’s a trap! – Admiral Ackbar

    So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause. – Padmé Amidala

    Patience you must have, my young Padawan.-Yoda

  4. Speaker 4


    Your eyes can deceive you. Don’t trust them. – Obi-Wan Kenobi

    Never tell me the odds. – Han Solo

    You must unlearn what you have learned.-Yoda

  5. Speaker 5


    The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.-Qui-Gon Jinn

    I find your lack of faith disturbing. – Darth Vader

    Size matters not.-Yoda

Round 3 - 10:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    Just Do It-Nike

    I’m Loving It-McDonald’s

    Think Different-Apple

  2. Speaker 2


    Save Money. Live Better.-Walmart

    The greatest tragedy is indifference-Red Cross

    America Runs on Dunkin’-Dunkin Donuts

  3. Speaker 3


    Every Little Helps –Tesco

    Melts in your mouth, Not in your hands-M&M

    Think Big-IMAX

  4. Speaker 4


    Think Small-Volkswagon

    A Diamond is Forever-Du Beers

    Between love and madness lies obsession-Calvin Klein

  5. Speaker 5


    Imagination at work-General Electric

    Impossible is nothing-Adidas

    The Few. The Proud. The Marines. –The U.S. Marine Corps

Round 4 - 11:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    “A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.” – Katharine Whitehorn

    “The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘check enclosed’.” – Dorothy Parker

    “I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.” – Queen Victoria

  2. Speaker 2


    “Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.” – Deborah Martin

    “When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?” – Kathleen Norris

    “Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.” Nikki Harris

  3. Speaker 3


    “Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.” – Virginia Woolf

    “You can never shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi

    “Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

  4. Speaker 4


    “Nobody is going to look at the world around you and tell you important things.” – Chelsea Manning

     “What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.” – Margot Asquith

    “Having something to say is overrated.” – Adair Lara

  5. Speaker 5


    “A stale mind is the devil’s breadbox.” – Mary Bly

    “I shall be an autocrat, that’s my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that’s his.” – Catherine the Great

    “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” – Katherine Hepburn

Elimination Round 1 - 1:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    These little grey cells. It is up to them.

    -Agatha Christie

     

    You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

    -Winston Churchill

     

    Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

    -Arthur Schopenhauer

  2. Speaker 2


    These little grey cells. It is up to them.

    -Agatha Christie

     

    You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

    -Winston Churchill

     

    Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

    -Arthur Schopenhauer

  3. Speaker 3


    I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

    -Clarence Darrow

     

    Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

    -Lao Tzu

     

    I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

    -Elizabeth I

  4. Speaker 4


    The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

    -Niccolo Machiavelli

     

    If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

    -Agatha Christie

     

    Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

    -Theodore Roosevelt

  5. Speaker 5


    Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

    -Socrates

     

    Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

    -Saint Augustine

     

    The word must is not to be used to princes.

    -Elizabeth I