Basic Debate Knowledge
What does PAEL stand for?
Point, Argument, Example, Link
THW Ban Zoos
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What is a mechanism?
Explaining the process by which your argument occurs
The clock used to symbolize humanity's proximity to global catastrophe?
a. ChronoClock
b. Atomic countdown
c. Doomsday Clock
d. Crisis Timer
C. Doomsday Clock
The Parthenon Marbles are controversially located in which museum?
Name two possible weighing metrics
Feasibility, magnitude, time (short v.s long term), reversibility
Come up with an argument for the following motion:
This house regrets the rise of social media influencers in the fitness industry.
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What is an impact? Provide an example
The result of the argument being true E.g, how does the argument affect the government or minorities
Which 19th century drugstore ingredient was marketed as a children's cough suppressant?
a. Cocaine
b. Codeine
c. Heroin
d. Opium
C. Heroin
Which prominent female politician was known as the "Iron Lady"?
Margaret Thatcher
How many speeches, including reply, are given in WSDC format on EACH SIDE?
4
Come up with an argument for the following motion:
This house, in the fight against climate change, would take international action against countries that are not meeting climate targets(e.g., exclusion from international institutions, sanctions, cutting of diplomatic ties, etc.)
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Direct v.s Indirect Refutation
Explicit attack on argument with clear reason why it's wrong v.s. less apparent that explains why your arguments are more important
a. Dandelion Roots
b. Bull sweat
c. Mexican wild yams
d. Bee venom
C. Mexican wild yams
In Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson (Sherlock's sidekick) has a middle name that starts with the letter H, but he is extremely reluctant to reveal it. What is his middle name?
Hamish
They contradict or undermine your case and you're on the same side (basically)
This house would impose a sin tax on the consumption of meat
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US, Canada
Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc.
1. Ruby
2. Golden Hour (Pt. 1, Pt.2)
3. Between 1&2
1. Jennie
2. Ateez
3. Twice
Complete the [kpop] lyrics
1. Check out, popcorn, and ________________
2. Gang, gang, gang, gang, ______________
3. I be walking with the cheese, that's that _______
1. Zero Coke
2. Gang
3. Queso
The ability to assume a policy plan that can be implemented for the sake of argument even if it's ont authorized by any real world authority, usually used by OG
THS the cordon sanitaire in European politics
In politics, a cordon sanitaire is the refusal of political parties to cooperate with certain other parties, often due to their perceived extreme ideologies. In European politics, the cordon sanitaire has traditionally been directed at hard/far-right parties.
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Do you add new content in the whip speech?
No
The mastermind behind debate club's very creative announcements is who?
a. Ian Kim
b. Sophia Zheng
c. Clare Li
d. Kyla Lian
Clare Li
Connect the opening lines to the books
1. "English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods."
2. "My mother died yesterday, maybe yesterday, I don't know"
3."The boy asks the girl a question. It is a question of marriage. Ask me again tomorrow, she says, and he says, That's not how this works"
1. Babel: or the Necessity of Violence, an Arcane History of the Oxford's Translator's Revolution
2. The Outsider (The Stranger)
3. Chemistry