A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 4:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Mood
    2. Religion
    3. Service
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Irritation
    2. Movement
    3. Amazement
  3. Speaker 3


    1. Wariness
    2. Evil
    3. Horror
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Dexterity
    2. Wisdom
    3. Power
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Opinion
    2. Courage
    3. Dictatorship
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Infancy
    2. Pride
    3. Surprise

Round 2 - 5:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Violin
    2. Shrimp
    3. Castle
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Tree
    2. Veterinarian
    3. Koal
  3. Speaker 3


    1. Truck
    2. Grains
    3. Hotel
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Jumper
    2. Flower
    3. Guitar
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Pigeon
    2. Knife
    3. Sunglasses
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Remote
    2. Pharmacy
    3. Casino

Round 3 - 6:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. A doctor who invoked a storm on his people cannot prevent his house from destruction. --Nigerian proverb
    2. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
    3. Do not follow a person who is running away. --Kenyan proverb
  2. Speaker 2


    1. You cannot build a house for last year’s summer. --Ethiopian proverb
    2. Slow and steady wins the race.
    3. What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
  3. Speaker 3


    1. To know another is not to know the person's face, but to know the person's heart. --Chinese Proverb
    2. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
    3. The squeaky wheel gets the grease
  4. Speaker 4


    1. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
    2. A picture is worth a thousand words.
    3. There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet. --Chinese Proverb
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Enjoy it while it lasts
    2. Time is money.
    3. A smile will gain you ten more years of life. --Chinese Proverb
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Beggars can’t be choosers
    2. Strike while the iron is hot.
    3. After the feast comes the reckoning.

Finals - 8:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods. --Hunter Parrish
    2. Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. --Thomas Carlyle
    3. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. —Aristotle
  2. Speaker 2


    1. What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. --Shia LaBeouf
    2. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. --Charles de Gaulle
    3. Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. --Maria Schell
  3. Speaker 3


    1. The key to education is the experience of beauty. --Friedrich Schiller
    2. War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. --Lewis Mumford
    3. Motherhood is difficult and rewarding. --Gloria Estefan
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Hollywood's just not funny. --Chris Rock
    2. To me, art supplies are always okay to buy. --Louis C. K.
    3. The American dream is about freedom. --Nancy Pelosi
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. --John Henry Newman
    2. If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
    3. The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. --Arthur Schopenhauer
  6. Speaker 6


    1. It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are. --Debra Winger
    2. Society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government. — Thomas Paine
    3. There is no man that is free from all evil, nor any man that is so evil to be worth nothing. — David Castillo's last words, executed in Texas on Aug. 23, 1998