A. Junior Spontaneous Speech Event Prompts
Judge Training - 8:00 AM PST
Speaker 1
Topics for Speakers 1 and 2
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Public Transit is preferable to personal vehicle ownership.
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Youtube is better than Netflix.
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Homework does more harm than good.
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Speaker 2
Topics for Speakers 1 and 2
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Public Transit is preferable to personal vehicle ownership.
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Youtube is better than Netflix.
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Homework does more harm than good.
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Speaker 3
Topics for Speakers 3 and 4
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The United States should surrender the war on drugs.
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Athletes speaking out on their beliefs have done more harm than good.
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Barry Bonds should have made the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 4
Topics for Speakers 3 and 4
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The United States should surrender the war on drugs.
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Athletes speaking out on their beliefs have done more harm than good.
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Barry Bonds should have made the Hall of Fame.
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Round 1 - 9:00 AM PST
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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Ability
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Aircraft
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“34 percent of adults still sleep with a stuffed animal, blanket, or other sentimental object” -Sleepopolis
“My mother always used to say: The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana.” -Rose (Betty White), The Golden Girls
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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Beauty
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Ball
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“The average American generates nearly 4.5 pounds of trash each day.” -Environmental Protection Agency
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“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” -Jack Handey
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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Childhood
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Chair
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“More than 36 million U.S. adults cannot read above a third grade level.” -ProLiteracy
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” -Will Ferrell
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
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Defeat
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Doctor
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“The average American eats nearly 13 pounds of ice cream per year.” -U.S. Department of Agriculture
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“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” -Rita Rudner
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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Education
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Elephant
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“We collectively receive about 2.4 billion "robocalls" per month.” -Federal Communications Commission
“Ned, I would love to stand here and talk with you—but I’m not going to.” -Phil Connors (Bill Murray), Groundhog Day
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
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Failure
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Forest
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“There are more than 6,000 dogs registered to come to work with Amazon employees at the company's Seattle office.” -Amazon
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“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” -Erma Bombeck
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Round 2 - 10:00 AM PST
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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Power
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Television
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More than 10 people a year are killed by a vending machine.
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“Work sucks.” — Office Space
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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Worry
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Tongue
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Summer on Uranus lasts 21 years.
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“Reality is a thing of the past.” — The Matrix
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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Trust
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Wolf
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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“A man went looking for America, and he couldn't find it anywhere." —Easy Rider
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
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Chaos
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Wings
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime.
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“If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards.” — Tommy Boy
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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Fear
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Mountain
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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“We scare because we care.” — Monsters, Inc.
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
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Need
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Theater
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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“A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere.” — Fargo
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Round 3 - 11:00 AM PST
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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Relief
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Theater
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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"Not left. Not right. Forward." — Andrew Yang 2020
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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Curiosity
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Kiwi
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce…and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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"Don't change horses midstream." – Abraham Lincoln 1864
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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Victory
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Truck
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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"First in war, first in peace." – Winfield Scott 1852
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
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Justice
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Turkey
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.
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"We're all in this together." — Beto O’Rourke 2020
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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Reality
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Mouse
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A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
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“Yes we can.” — Barack Obama 2008
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
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Joy
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Grapes
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The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
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"Tell the Truth!" — Grover Cleveland 1884
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Round 4 - 12:00 PM PST
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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Thrill
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Plane
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If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
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"I'm finished. I don't even trust myself."
— Joseph Stalin
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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Loss
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Library
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One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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"At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves."
— George Orwell, English author, dying at the age of 46
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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Pride
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Fish
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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“Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”
— Karl Marx, political theorist
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
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Lies
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Bed
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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"Happy."
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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Jealousy
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Frog
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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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"I'm bored with it all."
— Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
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Democracy
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Bakery
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WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes.
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“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
— Huey P. Newton, American activist
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Elimination Round 1 - 2:00 PM PST
Speaker 1
Topics for Speakers 1 and 2
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Life would be better if people didn’t need to sleep.
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Weekends are overrated.
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The chip shortage will make video games increasingly inaccessible.
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Speaker 2
Topics for Speakers 1 and 2
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Life would be better if people didn’t need to sleep.
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Weekends are overrated.
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The chip shortage will make video games increasingly inaccessible.
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Speaker 3
Topics for Speakers 3 and 4
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Internet privacy is a lost cause.
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Sports are not as exciting after the COVID-19 Pandemic started.
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Lebron James has passed Michael Jordan as the NBA G.O.A.T.
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Speaker 4
Topics for Speakers 3 and 4
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Internet privacy is a lost cause.
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Sports are not as exciting after the COVID-19 Pandemic started.
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Lebron James has passed Michael Jordan as the NBA G.O.A.T.
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Elimination Round 2 - 3:00 PM PST
Speaker 1
Topics for Speakers 1 and 2
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Skills learned in speech are more useful than skills learned in debate.
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Social media is the greatest threat to the mental health of Americans.
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HBO will win the streamer wars.
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Speaker 2
Topics for Speakers 1 and 2
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Skills learned in speech are more useful than skills learned in debate.
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Social media is the greatest threat to the mental health of Americans.
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HBO will win the streamer wars.
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Speaker 3
Topics for Speakers 3 and 4
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Going to community college is a better first step after highschool than going to a university for the average person.
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Humans would be a bigger threat to dinosaurs than dinosaurs would be to humans.
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Colonizing Mars is not worth it.
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Speaker 4
Topics for Speakers 3 and 4
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Going to community college is a better first step after highschool than going to a university for the average person.
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Humans would be a bigger threat to dinosaurs than dinosaurs would be to humans.
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Colonizing Mars is not worth it.
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