Prompts for Practice: National Online Forensics

At NOF, we pride ourselves on crafting unique prompts for our tournaments. Once a competition concludes, we believe in giving students the chance to continue honing their skills with these prompts outside the competitive arena.

Below, you'll find a collection of prompts from categories like Impromptu, SPAR, NOF Parli, and Extemporaneous from our most recent tournament. We trust these will serve as valuable practice material for your upcoming competitions!

Impromptu:

• Xylophone

• Lion

• Enthusiasm

• A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.

• A broken clock is right twice a day.

• The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. --Antisthenes

SPAR:

• Multi-level marketing is immoral

• The police should be allowed to use deadly force

• Clothing is a form of freedom of speech

• All cars should become electric

Extemp:

• Will OpenAI remain dominant in the LLM field?

• Will the GOP win control of the House in November?

• Has 2024 seen a new version of Trump?

IPDA:

• The United States should normalize economic relations with the Republic of Cuba.

• Google is a monopoly

• Globalization promotes universal healthcare

• The protection of a national identity is a legitimate reason to restrict immigration.