Individual Events (Extemp, Impromptu, Congress)
The amount of time you get to prepare an extemp speech.
What is 30 minutes?
The written notes/outline of a debate.
What is the flow?
The term for talking really fast in a debate round.
What is spreading?
Name and define any logical fallacy.
What is [ad hominem, cherry picking, straw man, slippery slope, bandwagon, etc. + definition]?
A specific piece of evidence that has a tagline, author, date, and underlined/highlighted information.
What AGD stands for.
What is attention-getting device OR attention-grabbing device?
The TOTAL number of constructives in a CX round.
What is four? (Two aff constructives, two neg constructives)
The term for asking your opponent questions after the constructives.
What is cross/crossfire/cross-examination?
Define forensics.
What is "the art or study of argumentative discourse?" (any response that gets somewhere along this line gets credit)
What the "topic" is called in a debate.
The title of the student who is running the Congress round (keeping time, establishing precedence, etc.)
What is the presiding officer?
The name of the speech where you directly respond to arguments made in your opponent's constructive speech.
What is a rebuttal?
The two elements of a framework in LD debate.
What are the value and criterion?
The name of the person who proposed the theories of ethos, pathos, and logos.
Who is Aristotle?
What is Lincoln-Douglas/LD debate?
The total amount of time you get to prepare and deliver an impromptu speech.
The two ways to prove that the counterplan competes.
Who should be the "actor" in most CX resolutions?
The name of the philosopher who proposed the categorical imperative.
The three ways you can weigh impacts. (The first letters are M, P, and R.)
All parts of an extemp intro.
What are the AGD, link, background, statement of significance, question, and answer/roadmap?
The term in a disad for "the status quo does not lead to a given impact."
What is the uniqueness?
The governing body for speech & debate in the US. (They host a national tournament that is coming up pretty soon!)
The term for doing both an impact turn and a link turn, and why it's bad.
What is double turn? (Bad because you contradict yourself or accidentally argue that your opponent reduces a bad thing or increases a good thing).