TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of November 14, 2018

1.Your bag of candy pieces has nine banana, four cherry, twelve apple, six watermelon, and five lime. What is the chance that the first piece you pick out will be watermelon?

1/6
1/2
3/5
1/9
1/3

2.gregarious is to introverted as

beneficial is to bountiful
rancid is to restful
placid is to agitated
extraneous is to external
short is to minimal

3.Farmers use crop rotation:

to reduce pollution
to control insects
to meet changing market requirements
because they like variety in their diet
to maintain the quality of soil in their fields

4.Maria's mother plans to buy the family a camera with a digital storage card. Which combination will hold the most pictures for their new digital camera?

Two 128 Mb memory cards
Three 32 Mb and four 127 Mb memory cards
Five 64 Mb memory cards
Eight 64 Mb and two 128 Mb cards
One 1 Gb card and one 8 Mb card

5.Which of these does not belong?

Pianissimo
Lento
Allegro
Adagio
Presto

6.Rashad wants to buy his sister an CD player, but he has exactly $35.00. The one he wants to buy is on sale at $70.00. The store is running a special sale that will take 10% off the reduced price at the end of every hour until they sell out. They open at 8 a.m., when will Rashad be able to afford to buy the CD player he wants, assuming sales tax is 5%?

6 p.m.
5 p.m.
3 p.m.
2 p.m.
4 p.m.

7.Which trip would be longest?

Manila to Tokyo
Paris to London
Melbourne to New York
Washington D.C. to Quito
Capetown to Cairo

8.Pete earns $3 for every five dollars his big brother earns. His big brother made $750 toward his holiday shopping and college fund this fall. How much did Pete make?

$500
$350
$600
$450
$250

9.When a scientist does an experiment, which of these steps comes first?

procedure
data
conclusion
hypothesis
graphing

10.When the Pilgrims first settled in Massachusetts, they agreed to be governed by this document.

The Rights of Man
The Massachusetts Charter
The Mayflower Compact
The Magna Carta
The Articles of Confederation

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