TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of June 14, 2013

1.Which best fits a U.S. "holiday" celebrated the third Sunday in June? (10 points)

• autumnal
• maternal
• paternal
• filial
• fraternal

2.This famous strait at the entrance to the Mediterranean has a noteworthy outcropping of rock: (5 points)

• English Channel
• Gibraltar
• Hormuz
• Magellan
• Bering

3.Which happened longest ago? (10 points)

• First World War
• First man on the moon
• First modern Olympics
• First photograph
• First airplane flight

4.To paraphrase an old saying, A duo is a pleasant social engagement, but (10 points)

• a forgiving person is heavenly.
• a quintet lacks color.
• a single swims alone.
• a quartet sounds sour.
• a trio is excessively contiguous.

5.Which of the following words cannot be used as both a noun and a verb? (10 points)

• marvel
• maid
• collar
• subject
• screen

6.Point is to font as __________ is to mass? (5 points)

• millimeter
• gross
• gram
• yard
• liter

7.Which is the middle value from this list? (20 points)

• The number of Wonders of the Ancient World plus the number of hooves hitched at one time in a famous St-Louis-based Clydesdale team
• The number of senators from Hawaii plus the number of years Jimmy Carter was in office
• The number of years since Neil Armstrong's famous walk minus the number of justices on the Supreme Court
• The number of years of bad luck superstition associates with breaking a mirror plus the number of New England states
• The number of states that border Canada plus the number of states that border Mexico

8.What plant did colonists use to make blue dyes? (5 points)

• Cotton
• Wool
• Flax
• Tobacco
• Indigo

9.To a chemist, which one would not fit with the rest? (20 points)

• baking soda
• Alka-seltzer
• chlorine beach
• dishwashing liquid soap
• catsup

10.Your lemonade stand sells 16 glasses of lemonade per hour on very hot days. A quart of lemonade requires four lemons. You sell lemonade in 8 ounce glasses. How many lemons will you need to make enough lemonade to keep the stand open from 1:00-5:00 pm on a 95 degree day? (5 points)

• 10 lemons
• 4 lemons
• 12 lemons
• 16 lemons
• 32 lemons

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