TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of March 21, 2025

1.Which of these colors has the fewest rhymes in English? (5 points)

• navy
• kelly
• scarlet
• orange
• coral

2.Which has the most employees? (10 points)

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

3.Which combination will hold the most pictures for the new digital camera Elvis' parents plan to give him for his birthday? (10 points)

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

4.Which occasion or event is not during the same month as the rest? (20 points)

• Battle of Lexington/Concord
• Columbine anniversary
• Beethoven's birthday
• Earth day
• Tax day (US)

5.In theory, global warming could: (10 points)

• force farmers to raise different crops
• increase air conditioning costs
• raise the oceans' level
• all of the these
• change the forests

6.Thunderstorms occur when warm, moist air collides with: (10 points)

• mountains
• warm, dry air
• flat land
• wind
• colder air

7.A flight lands leaves San Diego at 4:50 Pacific Daylight time and lands in Gary, Indiana at 6:18 local time. How long was the flight? (20 points)

• 4 hrs. 46 min.
• 4 hrs. 28 min.
• 4 hrs. 32. min.
• 3 hrs. 28 min.
• 5 hrs. 8 min.

8.Which pair does not match? (5 points)

• Cape-South Africa
• Lagoon-Nebraska
• Archipelago-Hawaii
• Peninsula-Michigan
• Isthmus-Panama

9.When a person tweets, what does not happen? (5 points)

• His/her identity is shown with an @ symbol.
• He/she speaks in fewer than 280 characters.
• Followers know about it.
• His/her phone rings.
• Others can retweet it.

10.Garnish is to entree as... (5 points)

• Lace is to blouse
• Carpenter is to router.
• Clock is to time
• Order is to menu
• Eat is to dinner

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