World Leaders
Who is the President of the United States?
Donald J. Trump
In early 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming this Gulf
(State both the original name and the new name)
Gulf of Mexico; Gulf of America
A question that can be asked between the 1st and 4th minute of an opposing speaker's speech.
Point of Information (POI)
This movie franchise has a character called "Chewbacca"
Star Wars
This leader was once an actor who portrayed a president on screen before being elected as the actual president of their country.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
This Chinese AI company recently made headlines for releasing an advanced open-source language model rivaling GPT-4.
DeepSeek
The main role of the Prime Minister in British Parliamentary debating
Define the Motion
"My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion was the theme song of this 1997 film.
Titanic
This leader was referred to as "The Iron Lady"
Margaret Thatcher
This country was recently placed under a brief state of martial law.
South Korea
This speaker's main role is to provide an extension to opening government's case
Member of Government
This 2025 TV series is known for being filmed in one continuous shot.
Adolescence
This former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom became the shortest-serving leader in modern British history, stepping down after just 45 days in office
In 2023, researchers from this company made a leap in quantum computing by creating a new "topological" state of matter.
Microsoft
What is it called when a closing team directly refutes their respective opening team's point (eg. Closing Government refutes Opening Government)
Knifing
This TV show has the highest rating on IMDB
Breaking Bad
Viktor Orbán is the prime minister for which country?
Hungary
This person was released from prison in 2024 and is known for founding an organization called WikiLeaks, which publishes classified and leaked documents.
Julian Assange
What is the debating strategy in which an Opening team deliberately makes as many arguments as possible in their speeches to leave the Closing team with no new material to introduce?
Scorched Earth
In what movie was the quote "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse"
The Godfather