A. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1
Speaker 1
1. Smoke
2. Senator
3. Dresser
Speaker 2
1. Belt
2. Lamp
3. Boy
Speaker 3
1. Cow
2. Ocean
3. Park
Speaker 4
1. Cookware
2. Juicer
3. Cat
Speaker 5
1. Milk
2. Wallet
3. Soup
Speaker 6
1. Antlers
2. Buckles
3. Fox
Speaker 7
1. Bookcase
2. Glasses
3. Guitar
Speaker 8
1. Eyes
2. Painter
3. Train station
Speaker 9
1. Market
2. Gauva
3. Spoon
Speaker 10
1. Perfume
2. Lighter
3. Skirt
Round 2
Speaker 1
1. Dishonesty
2. Confusion
3. Pleasure
Speaker 2
1. Sacrifice
2. Kindness
3. Rhythm
Speaker 3
1. Ability
2. Despair
3. Silliness
Speaker 4
1. Fragility
2. Disregard
3. Growth
Speaker 5
1. patriotism
2. humility
3. redemption
Speaker 6
1. honesty
2. impression
3. Death
Speaker 7
1. Weakness
2. Thrill
3. Shock
Speaker 8
1. Dedication
2. Justice
3. Union
Speaker 9
1. Timing
2. memory
3. Perseverance
Speaker 10
1. Charity
2. Gossip
3. Poverty
Round 3
Speaker 1
1. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
2. After the feast comes the reckoning.
3. Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden.
Speaker 2
1. An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.
2. Wind isn't always favorable; soldiers aren't always victorious.
3. Nobody is born wise.
Speaker 3
1. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
2. However long the night, the dawn will break.
3. Pen is mightier than the sword
Speaker 4
1. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
2. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
3. Food is the first priority of the people.
Speaker 5
1. Two heads are better than one
2. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
3. It’s better to be safe than sorry
Speaker 6
1. Every cloud has a silver lining
2. The night has ears.
3. Curiosity killed the cat
Speaker 7
1. When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt.
2. Good things come to those who wait
3. Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.
Speaker 8
1. Seeing is different than being told.
2. No person is born great. Great people become great when others are sleeping.
3. Restless feet might walk you into a snake pit.
Speaker 9
1. Happiness is the best cosmetic.
2. Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.
3. You do not fatten a pig by weighing it.
Speaker 10
1. Ask no questions and hear no lies.
2. Doctors make the worst patients.
3. Appearances can be deceptive
Elim 1: A/B - Prelim 2: J
Speaker 1
1. Dream in a pragmatic way. - Aldous Huxley
2. I’ve seen what such feelings can do to a fully trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us. - Ahsoka Tano, The Mandalorian
3. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter
Speaker 2
1. Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life. - Fred Rogers
2. “To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.” - — Henry Ford
3. Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it - Henry David Thoreau
Speaker 3
1. We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese
2. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop
3. Let go of your hate. - Luke Skywalker, Return Of The Jedi
Speaker 4
1. A friend to all is a friend to none. - Aristotle
2. The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
3. We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. - Aldous Huxley
Speaker 5
1. The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. - Ayn Rand
2. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
3. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart
Speaker 6
1. History is always changing. - Aung San Suu Kyi
2. No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard
3. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington
Speaker 7
1. “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” - — Thomas Jefferson
2. Being young and beautiful is not a crime, you know
3. What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.
5:30 PM Round
Speaker 1
1. The future ain't what it used to be.
2. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. - Bill Bradley
3. What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
Speaker 2
1. There is always something left to love. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
2. Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. - Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people. - Anwar Sadat
Speaker 3
1. We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2. Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for. - Joseph Heller (Catch 22)
3. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey Firestone
Speaker 4
1. Adventure is out there
2. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
3. You have to be secure in yourself to engage and challenge the mainstream. - Anne Poelina
Speaker 5
1. Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
2. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. - Blaise Pascal
3. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle
Speaker 6
1. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein
2. Not all those who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkein (The Fellowship of the Ring)
3. There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus
Speaker 7
1. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
2. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
3. If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
Elim 1: C/D - Prelim H4
Speaker 1
1. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. - Albus Dumbledore
2. As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. - Antisthenes
3. Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. - Aldous Huxley
Speaker 2
1. Can anybody be happy if they aren’t free? - Beauty and the Beast
2. Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. - Alice Walker (The Color Purple)
3. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Speaker 3
1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
2. “Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.” - — Andy Weir
3. Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world. - Aung San Suu Kyi
Speaker 4
1. When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Alexis de Tocqueville
2. You see, when the world turns upside down, the best thing is to turn right along with it - Mary Poppins Returns
3. No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it - Mulan
Speaker 5
1. He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. - Benjamin Franklin
2. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
3. Never give an order that can't be obeyed. - General Douglas MacArthur
Speaker 6
1. You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. - Michelle Obama
2. Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.
3. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein
Speaker 7
1. You just have to find your activism and don’t let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you’re doing the work, and you’re getting someone to think, you’re on the right path. - Angie Thomas
2. We didn’t set out to be superheroes. But sometimes life doesn’t go the way you planned - Big Hero 6
3. The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. - Fred Rogers
Speaker 8
1. Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. - Barry Bonds
2. It is better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington
3. It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. - Blaise Pascal