Speech & Debate
This category of Speech events focuses on performing a published text with the goal of conveying that text's emotion, humor, etc.
Interpretation
This planet is the sixth planet from the sun in our solar system.
Saturn
This famous navigator is known for his exploration of the Americas in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
This was Taylor Swift's sixth and most recent concert tour.
The Eras Tour
This formula is used in math to find the area of a triangle with the formula: a2 + b2 = c2.
The Pythagorean Theorem
This event is a 1v1 debate event primarily focused on philosophy.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate (LD)
A phenomenon in physics where an attractive force is caused by the mass of an object. It is commonly known as the force that makes things fall.
Gravity
This famous French general conquered most of Europe in the early 1800s, and is considered one of the greatest military commanders of all time.
Napolean Bonaparte
This famous group emerged from Liverpool and grew to fame with songs like Eleanor Rigby and Let it Be.
The Beatles
This well-known YouTube channel is known for its philanthropy, stunts, and challenges. It currently has the most subscribers of any YouTube channel.
MrBeast
This is the time limit for a speech in Extemporaneous Speaking.
7 Minutes
This well-known organelle is known as "the powerhouse of the cell" in biology.
Mitochondria
This individual was the United States' first Vice President.
John Adams
This K-Pop group has the record for the largest 24-hour YouTube debut of a music video at 108.2 million views with their song, Butter.
BTS
This popular web game shows users a street view of a location and prompts the user to pinpoint on a world map where they are.
Geoguessr
This debate event generally has the longest rounds (called sessions) out of all events in Speech and Debate.
Congressional Debate
This element, known as the eleventh element on the periodic table, is what makes table salt taste salty.
Sodium (Na)
The assassination of this Austrian Archduke is credited to have started the first World War.
Franz Ferdinand
This famous artist, who some say is jealous of Adele, is also known for having the most Grammys of any musical artist.
Beyoncé
This is the name of Batman's butler.
Alfred
In both Speech and Debate events, this segment details the order or progression of the speech that the speaker is about to give.
Roadmap
A phenomenon in psychology where a person who is given a fake treatment still feels the effects of the treatment due to the belief that the treatment is real.
Placebo
The dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex lived during this time period 68 to 66 million years ago.
Cretaceous Period
This classical music composer is famous for writing music after going deaf and composing Moonlight Sonata No. 3.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This unit of measure is the International Standard (SI unit) for measuring electrical current.
Ampere (Amp)