TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of May 14, 2019

1.Complete this series: 5, 14, 32, 68, 140...

• 260
• 321
• 290
• 273
• 284

2.Which descriptor do the media use in discussing the annual measurement of educational progress in most states:

• high-stakes
• round-about
• middle-ground
• low-calorie
• low-pressure

3.Which pair goes together?

• Bullish - cowardly
• Doggerel - canine
• Gadfly - incestuous
• Catty - feline
• Serpentine - winding

4.Mrs. Parson's American literature class was given a summer reading list. Which of the following works would definitely not have appeared on the list?

• Tom Sawyer
• My side of the Mountain
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Call of the Wild
• Sounder

5.Begun about 600 AD, this religion developed in the area that is now Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

• Buddhism
• Taoism
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam

6.Cameron wants to buy a weed whacker to earn money doing yard work this summer. The small model he is considering costs $75 and the large one costs $125. If he earns $25 for each yard he trims, how many yards must Cam do to cover the additional cost of the larger weed whacker?

• 2
• 4
• 5
• 1
• 3

7.Which has its terminus furthest north?

• The St. Lawrence
• The Amazon
• The Thames
• The Mississippi
• The Nile

8.Which pair is not a good "match?"

• France - wine
• South Africa - diamonds
• Japan - oil
• Switzerland - chocolate
• South Korea - electronics

9.Which does not fight infection?

• Antibody
• Antiseptic
• Red blood cell
• Antibiotic
• White blood cell

10.The first verse of The Star Spangled Banner contains:

• 6 articles
• 4 interjections
• 9 prepositions
• 16 adjectives
• 24 nouns

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