A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  Country

    2.  Singer

    3.  Paper

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  Bakery

    2.  Mango

    3.  Pencil

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  Road

    2.  Host

    3.  Factory

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  Palm

    2.  Rainbow

    3.  Mouse

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  Man

    2.  Watch

    3.  Teen

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Taxi

    2.  Father

    3.  Lamb

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  Cinema

    2.  Eyes

    3.  Heels

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  Cooker

    2.  Crow

    3.  Purse

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  Necklace

    2.  Tea

    3.  Cap

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  Mall

    2.  Dolphin

    3.  Cheese

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  Relief

    2.  Luxury

    3.  Opportunity

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  Surprise

    2.  Talent

    3.  Generosity

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  enhancement

    2.  Brilliance

    3.  Dictatorship

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  honesty

    2.  Anxiety

    3.  Gossip

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  imagination

    2.  Dream

    3.  honor

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Unemployment

    2.  Thrill

    3.  calmness

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  Wealth

    2.  Envy

    3.  Dishonesty

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  excitement

    2.  Fashion

    3.  Pride

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  Fragility

    2.  romance

    3.  enthusiasm

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  Peace

    2.  government

    3.  Nap

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree.

    2.  A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea.

    3.  Having a good discussion is like having riches.

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  It’s not over till it’s over

    2.  The man who has luck in the morning has luck in the afternoon.

    3.  It's better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely.

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  Mind your own business

    2.  Too many cooks spoil the broth

    3.  Least said, soonest mended.

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

    2.  Two wrongs don’t make a right

    3.  Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

    2.  A doctor who invoked a storm on his people cannot prevent his house from destruction.

    3.  When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger.

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Do everything at the right time, and one day will seem like three.

    2.  Clothes do not make a man.

    3.  Want a thing long enough and you don't.

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  As distance tests a horse's strength, time reveals a person's character.

    2.  Money doesn’t grow on trees

    3.  A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap.

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

    2.  If you bow at all, bow low.

    3.  A smile dispels many worries.

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.

    2.  Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

    3.  A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

    2.  It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

    3.  It's better to walk thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.

Finals

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are. - G. Edward Griffin

    2.  The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. - Betty Ford

    3.  Rule No. 1: never lose money; rule No. 2: don’t forget rule No. 1

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

    2.  The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. - Aristotle

    3.  Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  Difficult to see; always in motion is the future.

    2.  Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein

    3.  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  Honey, you never looked better

    2.  Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this. - Celine Dion

    3.  Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. - Chinese Proverb

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. - Benjamin Franklin

    2.  “You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

    3.  The first mistake in public business is the going into it. - Benjamin Franklin

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

    2.  “Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves.” - — John Taylor Gatto

    3.  You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. - Eldridge Cleaver

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush

    2.  Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our viewpoint. - Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi

    3.  You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood [...] back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time.

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  “My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane.” - — David Sipress

    2.  Even the tiny protests help.

    3.  Whatever choice you make, let it come from your heart - -Queen Clarisse Renaldi

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt

    2.  Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee

    3.  A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be - Maslow

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

    2.  In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

    3.  Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages. - George Washington