Debate Club Topics
Fallacies
Rhetorical Appeals
Debate Lore
100
This question was NOT among the questions debated in Debate Club this year.
(any question that we did not debate this year counts for this one)
100
This Sith Lord continues to haunt CAVA's Debate Club seeking to corrupt new recruits to using fallacies, the dark side of persuasion.
Darth Vader
100
This rhetorical appeal invokes the speaker's credibility.
Ethos
100
The CAVA Debate Club was started by Mr. Frederich in this year:
2024
200
CAVA's Debate Team debated against schools from Ohio and California on this question in this year's Debate Tournament.
Should community service be required for high school graduation?
200
This fallacy asserts that if one undesirable outcome is allowed, it will lead to a whole slew of other bad things inevitably following.
Slippery Slope
200
This rhetorical appeal is invoked when a speaker begins to "involuntarily" tear up as they present their argument.
Pathos
200
This series of debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas hinged on whether states could independently choose to allow slavery.
The Lincoln Douglass Debates
300
This was the last Debate Club topic of the year this year.
What is the best scheduling model for public education?
300
Michael Scott uses this fallacy.
Ad Hominem
300
Invoking this rhetorical device involves telling your audience a story.
Anecdote
300
The acronym NSDA stands for this. (It's the main association in the US for High School Speech and Debate)
National Speech & Debate Association
400
In February, the Debate Club debated whether all freshmen should be required to take this class:
CAR100
OR
Health Class
400
This fallacy is also known as a distraction.
Red Herring
400
In Animal Farm, Squealer uses this rhetorical device when he says:
"Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones to come back?"
Rhetorical Question
400
This ancient Greek philosopher invented Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.
Aristotle
500
This was the very first debate topic/question in Debate Club this year.
Which one is best: audiobooks or physical books?
500
Pointing to a fancy chart, Roger shows how temperatures have been rising over the past few centuries, whilst the same time the numbers of pirates have been decreasing; thus pirates cool the world and global warming is a hoax.
False Cause
500
This rhetorical device involves saying something over and over, and also sounds like the name of Taylor Swift's album released in 2017.
repetition
500
This TV channel hosted the 2024 Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
CNN