Debate
This is the portion of the debate when you attack your opponent's argument and answer their attack on yours.
What is the rebuttal?
These three words comprise the famous beginning of the US Constitution.
What is "we the people"?
This guy was the first emperor of Rome; he was also Julius Caesar's great nephew and later adopted son.
Who is Augustus Caesar?
This is the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth, weighing up to 400,000 pounds and reaching lengths of over 100 feet.
What is the blue whale?
This is the only word to become shorter by adding two letters to it.
What is short?
What is cross examination?
The First Amendment not only guarantees Free Speech, but also includes these other rights as well (you only have to name one to get it right).
what are the free exercise of religion, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably protest, and the right to petition the government when we are wronged?
what is Pompeii?
This is the smallest prime number.
What is 2?
This soft drink once contained cocaine as one of its original ingredients. Cocaine was removed as an ingredient in 1929.
What is Coca-Cola?
This the primary rhetorical appeal used in animal rescue commercials that feature sad-looking dogs and starving kittens looking longingly at the camera.
What is pathos?
What is the 13th amendment?
This Greek philosoper taught Alexander the Great; he also taught us about logos, pathos, and ethos.
Who is Aristotle?
what is carbon?
This man is the shortest person to have served as president of the United States. (bonus if you can name the tallest)
Who is James Madison (5'4")? (and Abraham Lincoln - 6'4")
The phrase, "I wore my lucky socks and my team won, so my socks must have caused the victory," relies on this logical fallacy.
What is correlation/causation (post hoc ergo propter hoc)?
Article 2, section 1 of the constitution states that an individual must meet these two requirements before serving as president.
What is they must be natural born citizens of the United States and must be at least 35 years old?
What empire conquered Constantinople in 1453?
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This ten letter term refers to the longest side of a right triangle.
what is the hypotenuse?
The first iphone was released this year.
What is 2007?
What is a value?
Article 3 of the constitution does not specify how many justices the Supreme Court must have. Congress made the decision to have this many in 1869 and it has remained the same since. (Bonus points if you can name at least one Justice on the Supreme Court)
What is nine? And who are Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Roberts, Kagan, Jackson, Coney-Barrett, and Sotomayor?
This document, signed in 1215 by King John in England, limited the power of the king. Its principles, such as due process and the rule of law, were foundational in shaping the US Constitution.
What is the Magna Carta?
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. This ball cost this much.
What is 5 cents?
Yahoo is an acronym for this bizarre phrase.
what is Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle?