Speaker 1

Topics for Speakers 1 and 2

1. Public Transit is preferable to personal vehicle ownership.

2. Youtube is better than Netflix.

3. Homework does more harm than good.

Speaker 2

Topics for Speakers 1 and 2

1. Public Transit is preferable to personal vehicle ownership.

2. Youtube is better than Netflix.

3. Homework does more harm than good.

Speaker 3

Topics for Speakers 3 and 4

1. The United States should surrender the war on drugs.

2. Athletes speaking out on their beliefs have done more harm than good.

3. Barry Bonds should have made the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 4

Topics for Speakers 3 and 4

1. The United States should surrender the war on drugs.

2. Athletes speaking out on their beliefs have done more harm than good.

3. Barry Bonds should have made the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. Ability

2. Aircraft

3. “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

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. Beauty

2. Ball

3. “The average American generates nearly 4.5 pounds of trash each day.” -Environmental Protection Agency

4. “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

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. Childhood

2. Chair

3. “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

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. Defeat

2. Doctor

3. “The average American eats nearly 13 pounds of ice cream per year.” -U.S. Department of Agriculture

4. “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

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. Education

2. Elephant

3. “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

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. Failure

2. Forest

3. “There are more than 6,000 dogs registered to come to work with Amazon employees at the company's Seattle office.” -Amazon

4. “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

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. Power

2. Television

3. More than 10 people a year are killed by a vending machine.

4. “Work sucks.” — Office Space

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. Worry

2. Tongue

3. Summer on Uranus lasts 21 years.

4. “Reality is a thing of the past.” — The Matrix

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. Trust

2. Wolf

3. 0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.

4. “A man went looking for America, and he couldn't find it anywhere." —Easy Rider

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. Chaos

2. Wings

3. Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime.

4. “If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards.” — Tommy Boy

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. Fear

2. Mountain

3. The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.

4. “We scare because we care.” — Monsters, Inc.

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. Need

2. Theater

3. The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.

4. “A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere.” — Fargo

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. Relief

2. Theater

3. Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

4. "Not left. Not right. Forward." — Andrew Yang 2020

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. Curiosity

2. Kiwi

3. It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce…and 13 hours to build a Toyota.

4. "Don't change horses midstream." – Abraham Lincoln 1864

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. Victory

2. Truck

3. Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

4. "First in war, first in peace." – Winfield Scott 1852

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. Justice

2. Turkey

3. About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.

4. "We're all in this together." — Beto O’Rourke 2020

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. Reality

2. Mouse

3. A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.

4. “Yes we can.” — Barack Obama 2008

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. Joy

2. Grapes

3. 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.

4. "Tell the Truth!" — Grover Cleveland 1884

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. Thrill

2. Plane

3. If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.

4. "I'm finished. I don't even trust myself."

— Joseph Stalin

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. Loss

2. Library

3. One human hair can support 3 ounces.

4. "At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves."

— George Orwell, English author, dying at the age of 46

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. Pride

2. Fish

3. The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.

4. “Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”

— Karl Marx, political theorist

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. Lies

2. Bed

3. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

4. "Happy."

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. Jealousy

2. Frog

3. There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.

4. "I'm bored with it all."

— Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. Democracy

2. Bakery

3. WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes.

4. “You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”

— Huey P. Newton, American activist

Speaker 1

Topics for Speakers 1 and 2

1. Life would be better if people didn’t need to sleep.

2. Weekends are overrated.

3. The chip shortage will make video games increasingly inaccessible.

Speaker 2

Topics for Speakers 1 and 2

1. Life would be better if people didn’t need to sleep.

2. Weekends are overrated.

3. The chip shortage will make video games increasingly inaccessible.

Speaker 3

Topics for Speakers 3 and 4

1. Internet privacy is a lost cause.

2. Sports are not as exciting after the COVID-19 Pandemic started.

3. Lebron James has passed Michael Jordan as the NBA G.O.A.T.

Speaker 4

Topics for Speakers 3 and 4

1. Internet privacy is a lost cause.

2. Sports are not as exciting after the COVID-19 Pandemic started.

3. Lebron James has passed Michael Jordan as the NBA G.O.A.T.

Speaker 1

Topics for Speakers 1 and 2

1. Skills learned in speech are more useful than skills learned in debate.

2. Social media is the greatest threat to the mental health of Americans.

3. HBO will win the streamer wars.

Speaker 2

Topics for Speakers 1 and 2

1. Skills learned in speech are more useful than skills learned in debate.

2. Social media is the greatest threat to the mental health of Americans.

3. HBO will win the streamer wars.

Speaker 3

Topics for Speakers 3 and 4

1. Going to community college is a better first step after highschool than going to a university for the average person.

2. Humans would be a bigger threat to dinosaurs than dinosaurs would be to humans.

3. Colonizing Mars is not worth it.

Speaker 4

Topics for Speakers 3 and 4

1. Going to community college is a better first step after highschool than going to a university for the average person.

2. Humans would be a bigger threat to dinosaurs than dinosaurs would be to humans.

3. Colonizing Mars is not worth it.