2025 Talk Hawk Invitational, 16th Annual - Livermore, CA

Las Positas College - Jan 31-2 | Status: Completed | 4:03 PM Pacific

Tournament Image
Tournament Time: 4:03 PM Pacific
  Home   Contact Tournament   Schedule   Registration   Entries   Headquarters   Postings   eBallots   Results

Back to Results

  B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 (B)

Speaker 1
  • “The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.”  William Golding, Lord of the Flies
  • “NOW this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky; and the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.”   Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.    M. F. Husain
Speaker 2
  • “The mask was a thing on its own, behind which we hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.”   William Golding, Lord of the Flies
  • “I wish to eat,” said Mowgli. “I am a stranger in this part of the jungle. Bring me food, or give me leave to hunt here”   Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.   Roberto Clemente
Speaker 3
  • “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”  William Golding, Lord of the Flies
  • Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.”   Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • “I can survive in the jungle, so now I can do anything.”    Emily Atack
Speaker 4
  • “The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”  William Golding, Lord of the Flies
  • “It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding.”   Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • “The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.”    Jimmy Buffett
Speaker 5
  • “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”  William Golding, Lord of the Flies
  • “One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward.”   Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.    Rona Barrett
Speaker 6
  • “And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”   Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
  • “Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.”   Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • An elephant is the king of the jungle for the simple reason a lion is only brave when there is loads of them.    Dereck Chisora
Speaker 7
  • “I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.”  Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
  • ”The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”   Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • "We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."    Immanuel Kant

Round 2 (B)

Speaker 1
Speaker 2
  • “Thou canst kill everything that thou art strong enough to kill.”    Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • “If size mattered the elephant would be the king of the jungle”    Rickson Gracie
  •  “If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming in the jungle.    Gautama Buddha
Speaker 3
  • ”The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.”   Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
  • “The fittest animal survives the jungle. The weakest animal dies even if protected”  Matshona Dhliwayo
  •  “On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.”    Tahir Shah
Speaker 4
Speaker 5
  • “Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?”   Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
  • “When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what i means to do next”    Rudyard Kipling
  • You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.   Hunter S. Thompson
Speaker 6
  • “The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.”   Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
  • “If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle.”    Wes Fesler
  • Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal    E.O. Wilson
Speaker 7
  • “A man with a club is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”   Jack London, The Call of the Wild
  • The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo    Desmond Morris
  • Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.  Muriel Strode

Round 3 (B)

Speaker 1
Speaker 2
  • ″I don’t think,” said Peter in between gasps of air, “that I want... to play... this game... anymore.” Jumanji
  • “If only a man could spit his past out so easily.   Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger 
  • The animals known as human beings live in humongous condominium blocks, just going about their daily lives.    Inio Asano
Speaker 3
  • “One day you will speak, and the jungle will listen. What will you say then, man-cub?”  Mowgli the Legend of the Jungle
  • “Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.”   Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
  • If you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle
Speaker 4
  • “This cub is under the protection of the pack. Should you decide to take me, you take on the pack, all of us.”   Mowgli the Legend of the Jungle
  • “I was looking for the key for years, but the door was always open”   Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
  • “If man doesn’t learn to treat the oceans and the rainforest with respect, man will become extinct.”   Peter Benchley
Speaker 5
  • “But you permitted man to live among you! You pretend he is a wolf. And you know that is the one thing he will never be. He will always be a man!”― Mowgli the Legend of the Jungle
  • “We live as we dream--alone....”    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
  • “He who plants a tree loves others beside himself.”
Speaker 6
  • “I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair that haunted me” - Planet of the Apes
  • “The mind of man is capable of anything.”   Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
  • Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.   Mahatma Gandhi
Speaker 7
  • “The good Lord does not shoot dice. Nothing happens by mere chance in the cosmos.” - Planet of the Apes
  • “I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life...”  Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
  •  “Westminster is a jungle – and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.”    Charles Kennedy

Finals (B)

Speaker 1
  • "Everything new that you see in this world, I've seen hundreds of thousands of times."  The Jungle Cruise
  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”  Mahatma Gandhi
  • “So many times, it happens too fast. You trade your passion for glory” - Eye of the Tiger,  Survivor
Speaker 2
  • "I got tired of being stabbed, so... I trapped them in a cave."  The Jungle Cruise
  • “That's the thing about cockroaches. No matter how many times you flushed them down the toilet, they always crawl back up the bowl.” - King Kong (2005)
  • In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.    Erik Erikson
Speaker 3
  • “There is still some mystery left in this world, and we can all have a piece of it for the price of an admission ticket.” - King Kong (2005)
  • “Some people talk to animals.  Not many listen though.  That’s the problem.”  A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
  • “We are the people that can find whatever you may need. If you got the money, honey, we got your disease”  - Welcome to the Jungle, Guns N Roses
Speaker 4
  • “You booked a river cruise and you can't swim? The price just went up.”  The Jungle Cruise
  • “Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.” - The Jungle Book 
  • “Welcome to the jungle, it gets worse here every day. You learn to live like an animal in the jungle where we play” - Welcome to the Jungle, Guns N Roses
Speaker 5
  • “Ma'am, don't forget to collect your baggage. I'm only kidding. He's behind you.”  The Jungle Cruise
  • "Gentlemen, you can take your invitation, and you can shove it up your association."  The Jungle Cruise
  • “Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”   Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Speaker 6
  • “When you look under the rocks and plants the bare necessities of life will come to you” - The Bare Necessities, The jungle book
  • “You are selfish, you are arrogant, and I wouldn't trust you as far as I could throw you, which clearly isn't very far, because you are huge.”  The Jungle Cruise
  • "Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented."  Henry David Thoreau
Speaker 7
  • “My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.” - The Jungle Book
  • “It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight. Risin' up to the challenge of our rival” - Eye of the Tiger,  Survivor
  • It's always best to get away from the concrete jungle and get intoxicated by nature as often as possible.