TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of October 16, 2019

1.Tom's average grade is 90. If he received the following grades in all his other subjects, what was his math grade? English-84; History-91; Science-89; Spanish-95

2.Rhombus is to parallelogram as:

Circle is to sphere
Square is to rectangle
Rectangle is to triangle
Trapezoid is to pyramid
Ellipse is to oval

3.Which pair is incorrectly matched?

Amazon -Andes
Colorado - Sierras
Nile - Sahara
Ganges - Himalayas
Rhine - Mojave

4.Which is the smallest number?

Snow White's dwarves
Faces on Mt. Rushmore
Words that a picture is worth
Willy Wonka's tickets
Gods and Goddesses of Olympus

5."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is

A sculpture by Andrew Remington
A poem by Robert Frost
A song by Irving Berlin
A short story by O. Henry
A painting by Andrew Wyeth

6.Which sentence has an incorrect homophone?

Weird things happened in their town that night.
There were several witches' brooms left behind on door steps.
The jack-o-lantern blinked it's eye when no one was looking.
Charlie did not know which witch had been to his door.
No one made the floors creak, but the maid said she heard it.

7.What is the shortest distance between two points?

a line
a curve
a vector
a line segment
a ray

8.Whose accomplishments are most recent?

Alexander Graham Bell
Samuel Morse
Leonardo DaVinci
Pablo Picasso
Steve Jobs

9.The gel-like substance contained in a cell is called:

organelles
chloroplast
plasma
amniotic fluid
nucleus

10.Political candidates usually engage in all but which of these?

Seeking endorsements
Stumping
Wooing the undecided
Endorsing indifference
Mudslinging

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