It is not the usual question you would expect teenagers to be asking. But at Saturday night’s Lions Youth of the Year regional final, several did.

One of them was Inverell High School student Hannah Worsley, who for the second year in a row has made it to the district final of the competition.

The seven competitors, including three from local schools, were asked two impromptu questions and they had to speak for two minutes in response.

Asked if they could be a fly on the wall, whose wall would they like to be on, Hannah’s response of Tony Abbott’s prompted laughter. Simply because she was the second speaker, and the first speaker, Macintyre High School’s Sarah Flick, had also said Tony Abbott.

Glen Innes student Patrick Lane later suggested the Liberal Party room during the recent leadership rumblings and Austin Youman from Guya also mentioned the prime minister, as well as the office of US president Barack Obama.

Among other suggestions, Patrick also mentioned the wall of Adolf Hitler, and his fellow Glen Innes student Lindsay Dunn thought Kim Kardashian’s wall was the place to be.

The most literal answer came from Armidale PLC student Georgia Ostler who preferred the wall of her own bedroom, because she said she would get swatted if she was on the kitchen wall.

Danthonia student Bradley Fischli also preferred the wall of his own home and spoke of the living conditions Australians enjoy.

While some of the students mentioned they were surprised by the question, the first impromptu question – should Australia try to influence other countries to abolish the death penalty? – drew almost unanimous responses with six of the seven saying no, and plenty taking the opportunity to speak about the current case in Indonesia of death row inmates Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

Later in the evening the seven students delivered five-minute prepared speeches on their chosen topic, before the judges selected Hannah – who spoke about feminism –as the winner of the public speaking section and the overall winner.

Among the other prepared speeches, Sarah’s topic was drugs in sport, Bradley spoke about the possibility of eating insects, Lindsay examined life as a teenager and Patrick spoke of the failure of leadership during World War I.

Austin spoke about ethanol as a fuel source and Georgia’s topic was prevention is better than cure where she spoke about several issues including the spread of Ebola and cane toads.

Earlier in the day the judges had interviewed all the contestants, and took that into consideration as well as the public speaking before selecting Hannah as the winner.

Hannah will now travel to Port Macquarie on March 28 to compete at the Lions Youth of the Year district final.