A. Varsity Impromptu Event Prompts

IE Prelim Round 1 Pattern A

  1. Section 1


    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde (OSS-ker WYLD)

  2. Section 2


    “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway (UR-nest HEM-ing-way)

  3. Section 3


    “The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
    Albert Einstein (AL-bert INE-stine)

  4. Section 4


    “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
    William Faulkner (WILL-yum FAWK-ner)

  5. Section 5


    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”
    George Orwell (JORJ OR-well)

  6. Section 6


    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley (ALL-dus HUCKS-lee)

IE Prelim Round 2 Pattern A

  1. Section 3


     

  2. Section 4


     

  3. Section 6


     

Semis + Other Flight B Finals

  1. Section 1


    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde (OSS-ker WYLD)

  2. Section 2


    “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”
    George Orwell (JORJ OR-well)

Extemp + Flight A Finals

  1. Section 1


    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (EFF SKOTT FITZ-JER-ald)