Forensics
A speaking event where a team of two competitors delivers a prepared 10-minute speech.
What is Duo Interpretation?
This is what OO stands for.
What is Original Oratory?
Both competing sides of a debate.
What are the Affirmative and the Negation? Or what are the Pro and Con?
This is what NSDA stands for.
What is the National Speech & Debate Association?
This movie is the less-iconic version of Mean Girls.
What is mean Girls 2?
Oprah Winfrey placed second in the nation in this speech event.
What is Dramatic Interpretation?
A speaking event that tests the student's comedic skills through script analysis, delivery, timing, and character development.
What is Humorous Interpretation?
This side of the debate has the burden of proof.
What is the Affirmative?
This is what you call fast-talking in debate
What is spreading?
This is a place TikTok is banned.
What is India?
A speaking event where topics range from political matters to economic concerns. Speeches last 7 minutes
What is Extemp?
Movement corresponding with the piece.
What is blocking?
This is the acronym for Policy debate.
What is CX?
Thought you'd get free points? Good luck next time lol.
This is something a judge might provide that competitors should read before their round.
What is a paradigm?
This is always in front of you but can’t be seen.
What is the future?
This event allows students to develop a visual to present alongside a prepared and memorized speech.
What is Informative Speaking?
This should be used in the first part of your speech/performance.
What is an attention grabbing device (AGD) or hook.
This is an event where students debate pieces of legislation, including bills and resolutions.
What is Congressional Debate?
What are the maximum number of speaker points you can get in debate?
What are 30 points?
Name 5 Taylor Swift songs.
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Name 7 forensics events.
Answers vary.
This event is often classified as the “other” category of interpretation. It combines multiple elements of oral interpretation of literature.
What is Prose?
This type of argument in policy debate is used by the negative to propose an alternative to the affirmative's plan.
What is a Counterplan?
This is the event with the longest sessions.
What is Congressional Debate?
This is the name of Google's AI chatbot (like ChatGPT).
What is Gemini?