Extemp Questions
Equality in Forensics publishes 15 unique extemp questions every week!
These can be used on a regular basis for extemp drills and practice speeches.
You can find a doc with all past questions at the bottom.
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Questions last updated on March 18, 2025.
This week's DX questions
Will Mahmoud Khalil be successfully deported?
How can the federal government get more people vaccinated against measles?
Is the Trump administration violating free speech by arresting campus protestors?
How will Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration shape U.S. exploration of space?
Will the Supreme Court allow Trump’s wide ranging efforts to reshape the judicial branch?
What are the infrastructural implications of advancing climate change?
Should Texas loosen its near-total abortion ban?
This week's IX questions
How should the international community respond to Russia’s delay in agreeing to a ceasefire in Ukraine?
Will Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” help or hurt Iranian protest movements?
What does Demokraatit’s victory in Greenland’s parliamentary elections mean for the country?
What will be the regional impacts of an escalation of US strikes on the Houthis?
Can the international community re-negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza?
Should the US dollar remain the international currency standard?
Will the withdrawal of Poland and several Baltic nations from a 1997 landmine ban destabilize Europe?
This week's Hypothetical Question
Putin suddenly gives into demands to accept Ukraine’s ceasefire demands, and the war in Ukraine temporarily halts. How should Putin and Zelenskyy work together to make sure that peace lasts?