C. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1
Speaker 1
1. Rabbit
2. Jacket
3. Cashier
Speaker 2
1. Keyboard
2. Umbrella
3. Grains
Speaker 3
1. Oven
2. Bank
3. Elephant
Speaker 4
1. Turtle
2. Apple
3. Train
Speaker 5
1. Cheeks
2. Aunt
3. Panda
Speaker 6
1. Palm
2. Oil
3. Nose
Speaker 7
1. Architect
2. Cinema
3. Ring
Speaker 8
1. Woman
2. Bow
3. Clock
Speaker 9
1. Son
2. Singer
3. Grapes
Speaker 10
1. Gown
2. Pharmacy
3. Trench coat
Round 2
Speaker 1
1. Joy
2. Beauty
3. Thrill
Speaker 2
1. enthusiasm
2. Liberty
3. Confidence
Speaker 3
1. Amazement
2. Confusion
3. Communication
Speaker 4
1. Marriage
2. Loneliness
3. Trust
Speaker 5
1. sympathy
2. Adoration
3. Wariness
Speaker 6
1. Chaos
2. Death
3. Horror
Speaker 7
1. Right
2. Restoration
3. Contentment
Speaker 8
1. Need
2. Unreality
3. knowledge
Speaker 9
1. Cleverness
2. Sanity
3. Service
Speaker 10
1. grace
2. jealousy
3. Laughter
Round 3
Speaker 1
1. Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.
2. Want a thing long enough and you don't.
3. Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.
Speaker 2
1. To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.
2. If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.
3. Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
Speaker 3
1. Don’t cast pearls before swine.
2. There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
3. Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.
Speaker 4
1. A jack of all trades is master of none.
2. If you carry the egg basket do not dance.
3. Knowledge is power.
Speaker 5
1. Out of sight, out of mind
2. Timely return of a loan makes it easier to borrow a second time.
3. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
Speaker 6
1. A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
2. If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.
3. Fortune favors the brave.
Speaker 7
1. Practice makes perfect
2. Jack of all trades, master of none.
3. Cleanliness is next to Godliness
Speaker 8
1. May the roof above you never fall in and those gathered beneath it never fall out.
2. Time and tide wait for no man
3. If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building or do you change the nail?
Speaker 9
1. Earth is the queen of beds.
2. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
3. You cannot build a house for last year’s summer.
Speaker 10
1. Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.
2. Nothing ventured, nothing gained
3. The grass is always greener on the other side
MS Elim 1 / ES Elim 1
Speaker 1
1. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
2. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. - Aristotle
3. Because it’s not worth winning if you can’t win big
Speaker 2
1. Your silence will not protect you. - Audre Lorde
2. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers
3. Dream in a pragmatic way. - Aldous Huxley
Speaker 3
1. Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. - Andrew Jackson
2. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. - Alfred North Whitehead
3. Sometimes things fall apart, so that better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe
Speaker 4
1. “Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?
2. It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. - George Washington
3. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. - Booker T. Washington
Speaker 5
1. I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.
2. I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don’t align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.
3. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. - Albert Einstein
Speaker 6
1. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. - Gilbert K Chesterton
2. You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.
3. If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
Speaker 7
1. A friendly piece of advice; assume that I know everything. - Moff Gideon, The Mandalorian
2. I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. - Benjamin Franklin
3. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart
Speaker 8
1. Humor is healing. - Brad Garrett
2. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
3. If you ain’t scared, you ain’t alive
Speaker 9
1. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
2. The road to success is always under construction. - Arnold Palmer
3. To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
Speaker 10
1. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank
MS Elim 2 / ES Elim 2
Speaker 1
1. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush
2. Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy. - George Washington
3. Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank
Speaker 2
1. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein
2. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
3. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Speaker 3
1. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. - Benjamin Franklin
2. Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. - Alice Walker
3. In youth, we learn; in age, we understand - Marie von Ebner–Eschenbach
Speaker 4
1. Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
2. Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein
3. If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher
Speaker 5
1. Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin
2. We must be our own before we can be another’s
3. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch
Speaker 6
1. But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
2. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
3. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Speaker 7
1. I’ve seen what such feelings can do to a fully trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us. - Ahsoka Tano, The Mandalorian
2. The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
3. It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Speaker 8
1. To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the distance, give yourselves. - Carrie Chapman Catt
2. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
3. The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you. - Bette Midler
Speaker 9
1. The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
2. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
3. Learning something new is fun. - Alex Trebek
Speaker 10
1. One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson
2. I don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad
MS Elim 3
Speaker 1
1. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right. A single experiment can prove me wrong. - Albert Einstein
2. I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. - Malala Yousafzai
3. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. - Giacomo Casanova
Speaker 2
1. Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are the men who defy what the school has taught them. - Ludwig von Mises
2. You can think about things and make believe. All you have to do is think and they'll grow. - Fred Rogers
3. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank
Speaker 3
1. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. - Benjamin Franklin
2. In this bright future you can't forget your past. - Bob Marley
3. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. - Brian Tracy
Speaker 4
1. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
2. Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. - Abigail Adams
3. You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. - Fred Rogers
Speaker 5
1. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank
2. When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
3. Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Speaker 6
1. We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. - Aldous Huxley
2. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
3. This is the way. - Mando, The Mandalorian
Speaker 7
1. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. - Aristotle
2. “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” - — Napoléon Bonapart
3. A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face
Speaker 8
1. If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. - Benjamin Franklin
2. If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity. - Albert Einstein
3. I’m sure I’ll get along somehow. Everything’s going to be all right
Speaker 9
1. Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed. - John Jay
2. A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. - Aristophanes
3. My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. - Jenna Jameson