TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of December 5, 2025

1.Which pair does not have the same relationship as the rest? (5 points)

joy - mirth
car - automobile
gift - giving
wassail - punch
apparel - clothing

2.In the final line of a carol that includes Parson Brown, you will find this figure of speech: (10 points)

personification
metaphor
alliteration
simile
hyperbole

3.Which of these is not part of a figure of speech in a famed poem by Clement Clarke Moore? (10 points)

dry leaves before the wild hurricane
an apple
a cherry
a peddler
bowlful of jelly

4.Tanzanite, one of December's birthstones, is made from... (10 points)

carbon
calcium aluminum silicate
primarily calcium carbonate
assorted silicate materials
non-crystalline form of the mineral silica

5.Which does not belong? (20 points)

a snowman and some children
a turkey and a ham
a train and the North Pole
a watch chain and Magi
a tree and its stump

6.The first News Years Eve ball dropped on Times Square happened in what year? (5 points)

1907
1904
1900
1913
1910

7.Named by the Romans, the month of December was named after the Latin word decem. Decem is Roman for what? (10 points)

a Roman god
war
the word that means ten
celebrations
peace

8.Except for leap years, January always begins on the same day as what other month? (20 points)

July
June
February
August
December

9.Sleigh bells ring... This line from a Christmas carol is also about (5 points)

Equines
Bovines
Lupines
Felines
Canines

10.In 1965, a young boy with a blanket joined his bald-headed friend and the gang for the first animated Christmas TV special. The group's biggest accomplishment was: (5 points)

Twirling a dog dish
Playing a toy piano
Eating snow flakes
Choosing the cast of a play
Decorating a tree

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