TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of April 19, 2024

1.If a lemonade recipe calls for 1/4 cup of lemon juice per quart of water, how much lemon juice will you need to make a batch that uses three gallons of water?

• 3.5 cups
• 1 quart
• 2.5 cups
• 1.5 pints
• 4 cups

2.What U.S. state boasts the following rivers: the Guadalupe, Trinity, Rio Grande, Brazos, and Colorado?

• The Centennial State
• The Sooner State
• The Golden State
• The Treasure State
• The Lone Star State

3.The continental divide separates...

• the U.S. from Mexico
• the Rocky Mountains from the Appalachian Mountains
• the U.S..from Canada
• the great plains from the mountains
• the Pacific watershed from the Atlantic watershed

4.Which one do the Joint Chiefs of Staff work for?

• The U.S. Department of the Interior
• The U.S. Supreme Court
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture
• The FBI
• The U.S. Department of Defense

5.Which pair does not match?

• archipelago - Hawaii
• isthmus - Panama
• panhandle - Florida
• lagoon - Nebraska
• cape - South Africa

6.Which provides the best aerobic exercise?

• Sprinting
• Wii
• Swimming
• Golf
• Ping pong

7.What is the name of a witty poem 5-line poem with a syllable pattern of 8-8-5-5-8 and a rhyme scheme of AABBA?

• Stanza
• Couplet
• Limerick
• Haiku
• Sonnet

8.Two human parents have the following genes: Mom: BB; Dad: Bb What are the chances of their babies having blue eyes, assuming B(brown) is dominant and b(blue) is recessive?

• One in four
• None
• 100%
• Two in four
• Three in four

9.This painter is famous for colorful boxes and black lines,

• Schultz
• Renoir
• Picasso
• Mondrian
• VanGogh

10.Choose the best pair to finish this analogy: "Garnish is to entree as..."

• clock is to time
• carpenter is to router
• eat is to dinner
• order is to menu
• lace is to blouse

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