That is why an ancient writer mocked even Cicero about appearing flustered with stage fright when giving speeches at a trail in front of the jury and crowd of onlookers and then later publishing extremely articulate versions of the same speeches.
But, don't take it from that ancient writer. Take it from Cicero himself.
"I turn pale at the outset of a speech and quake in every limb and in all my soul." ........... Cicero
Public Speaking is something that is, and has been neglected in public education.
Reading from script, or rote memorization, is what most are taught, if taught anything. Those methods are failure prone, and usually obvious to the audience.
These fine young women are brought together into a fast-spinning fantasy-world of competetion, and work very hard to win each and every contest they enter.
I imagine they all practiced their responses to the imagined questions, and shared their questions and answers.
I don’t imagine any of them guessed that would be a question.
Imagine, being 17................. and being asked “Why r kidz yur age sew dum?”
Or after winning a HS football game, the QB is given a microphone and asked, “Why does the water-boy sit on the bench?”
All the hub-bub is about a stumble over a piece of gravel on a path.
Unfortunately she will be remembered longer than the later contestant who ( given time to think about a response to that kind of question) returned an intelligent and opportunistic(humor-wise) response.
That's me at the beginning of every oral argument and hearing. Then amazingly the time to start talking hits and 15 minutes later you're done and wondering where the time went.
Boy did I need to read that. I had to give a short speech at a HOA meeting tonight and totally, completely choked. So bad I wanted to crawl in a hole and die. Ugh.