Stock Issues
Debate Vocabulary
Debate Fundamentals
Topic Knowledge
Significant Figures
100

What stock issue describes the problem the AFF is trying to solve?

Harm/Significance

100

What type of debate argument describes an argument that is a reason the plan will not work?

Defensive

100

What speeches constitute the NEG block?

2NC and 1NR

100

a politics premised on appealing to
the “ordinary common person,” opposing their
interests to that of powerful elites

populism
100

Which basketball player played fifteen seasons in the NBA, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls? He won five NBA MVP awards and 10 NBA scoring titles. 

Michael Jordan

200

What stock issue is defined as the ability of the plan to work?

Solvency

200

What type of debate argument is a type of NEG argument as to why the AFF is a bad idea?

Offensive

200

What speech follows the 2NR? 

2AR

200

What is the day that Great Depression began?

Black Thursday

200

Recent presidential candidate most known for supporting a UBI?

Andrew Yang

300

What stock issue is defined as why has a plan not happened?

Inherency

300

What NEG argument ensures the plan is part of the resolution?

Topicality

300

True/False: Cross-exes are considered speeches

True
300

A government work relief program established
in 1933 that hired unemployed, unmarried
men between 18 and 25 for conservation jobs

Civilian Conservation Corps

300

What American baseball team is referred to as "the Southsiders"?


the Chicago White Sox
400

What is the type of inherency that says political or social motives prevent an AFF's adoption?

Attitudinal Inherency

400

What is the term for the ability of the AFF to assume barriers to a proposal's enactment don't exist? This term ensures that debates are about why the plan SHOULD be adopted, rather then whether it WOULD. 

Fiat

400

What phrase describes the prima facie burden of the affirmative (necessary condition for an AFF to win)?

Stock Issues

400

A New Deal agency established
in 1935 which employed 3
million men and women in both
constructing public
infrastructure and in the arts


Created over 400,000 jobs for
Black workers

Works Progress Administration

400

Who were the two president's significant to this year's topic (mentioned in the topic lecture)? One failed to tackle the Great Depression, then the next president attempted to improve the conditions of working-class Americans. 

Hoover and Roosevelt

500

What is the type of inherency that is about a law that prohibits the adoption of the plan?

Structural 

500

What is the type of inherency describes that a plan has not happened "just because"?

Existential Inherency

500

What phrase describes what is happening right now?

Status quo

500

What are the three topic areas in the resolution?

federal jobs guarantee, social security, and basic income

500

What economist dubbed an economic theory  that
held that developed capitalist economies could
build institutions that intervene into and resolve
class conflict, stabilizing the economy and
staving-off working-class unrest

John Maynard Keynes/Keynesianism