TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of April 6, 2021

1.Carol's class has 40 students. If 10% of them move out of town and 5% don't get promoted, how many of the students will be in the next grade at her school?

• 39
• 27
• 30
• 18
• 34

2.Which word is NOT part of the complete predicate portion of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution?

• ordain
• Constitution
• people
• order
• for

3.Which do roller coasters NOT rely on to work properly?

• Evaporation
• Deceleration
• Gravity
• Friction
• Acceleration

4.Which of these does not belong?

• isosceles
• right
• quadrilateral
• scalene
• equilateral

5.The study of insects is known as:

• ornithology
• entomology
• seismology
• herpetology
• ichthyology

6.You are standing atop a caldera, looking across the archipelago to a distant reef. In another direction is a snow-capped peak. Within a few miles are several biomes. You are most likely

• In the home state of George W. Bush
• In the home of King Kameamea
• In the home state of John Paul Jones
• In the home state of Mark Twain
• In a fantasy state with Hermione Granger

7.What is the sum of the composite numbers between, and including, 20 and 40?

• 510
• 450
• 471
• 456
• 449

8.In 2011, a severe seismic event and resulting tidal event demolished entire villages in the same country where you would find all of the following except:

• The rising sun flag
• The target of the first atom bomb
• Mt. Fuji
• The 1998 Olympics
• The Parthenon

9.According to your science teacher, which of these is different from the rest?

• iron
• copper
• silver
• nickel
• steel

10.Which sentence lacks pronouns?

• They seem to have special powers.
• The director will choose them to play the monster.
• That movie will surely spook me!
• His eyes pierce through me.
• One day Tom's eyes will be in the movies.

Back

© 2006-2021 by The Source for Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.