A. Varsity Impromptu Event Prompts
IE Prelim Round 1 Pattern A
Section 1
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde (OSS-ker WYLD)Section 2
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway (UR-nest HEM-ing-way)Section 3
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
— Albert Einstein (AL-bert INE-stine)Section 4
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
— William Faulkner (WILL-yum FAWK-ner)Section 5
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”
— George Orwell (JORJ OR-well)Section 6
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley (ALL-dus HUCKS-lee)
IE Prelim Round 2 Pattern A
Section 3
Section 4
Section 6
Semis + Other Flight B Finals
Section 1
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
— Oscar Wilde (OSS-ker WYLD)Section 2
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”
— George Orwell (JORJ OR-well)
Extemp + Flight A Finals
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)