TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of March 11, 2025

1.Monet, Van Gogh, and Seurat all produced paintings of this type:

Impressionist
Modernist
Cubist
Art deco
Watercolor

2.If your state has a 5% sales tax and your town has a 1% sales tax, what is the total cost of a video game system that costs $250, plus tax?

$250.65
$256.50
$265.00
$285.00
$260.50

3.The Pleiades are:

a rock band
Caribbean islands
a cluster of stars
a mountain range
a virus

4.Susan and Ryan are planning the St. Patrick's Day parade. They expect 75 units, each of which takes 75 feet of roadway. If they leave 25 feet between each unit, approximately how long will the parade be?

2 miles
3/4 of a mile
1.5 miles
1 mile
1.25 miles

5.Benny plays in his first baseball exhibition game. He bats 2 for 6. What is Benny's batting average?

.003
.333
.500
.300
.600

6.Which American president made a fateful decision on August 6, 1945?

Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Reagan
Roosevelt

7.Which sentence has an incorrect verb?

Alison thinks nuts are what is making her face break out.
Shauna and mine favorite is butter pecan.
Each of Shauna's friends like ice cream.
Are parents allow us two eat dessert first on special occasions.
Ice cream tastes best out of a cone.

8.How many different combinations are there of one secondary color and one tertiary color?

9.Which word doesn't fit?

jettison
disperse
disseminate
hoard
scatter

10.Your private jet is taking you from Chicago to Beijing "as the crow flies." Which route would be the most direct?

via Anchorage
via Cairo
via London
via Tokyo
via Sydney

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