TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters
Week of May 17, 2012
1.Our understanding of modern genetics can be attributed to the work of Gregor Mendel, a 19th century Austrian monk, who conducted experiments on
- Apple Trees
- Fruit Flies
- Mice
- Earthworms
- Peas
2.In the AL and the NL, "perfection" involves a complete lack of
- fans and hot dogs
- kicks and goals
- runs and outs
- sinkers and sliders
- hits and walks
3.They live in open woodlands, pastures, and marshy meadows and are often found near streams and ponds. They are sometimes collected as pets. They are omnivores, eating both in streams and on land. They are:
- box turtles
- Chesapeake Bay crabs
- black bears
- Cuban crocodiles
- monarch butterflies
4.If you take the temperature at which degrees F and degrees C are the same, add the number of stars on the US flag during World War II, and multiply by the number of atoms in a molecule of table salt, you get:
- A factor of 36
- A multiple of five
- A perfect square
- A palindrome
- A perfect cube
5.GPS uses
- networked observers
- geostationary satellites
- cell phone towers
- cameras in space
- transmitters on roadside markers
6.A catastrophic event in the Gulf of Mexico about two years ago is often compared to a similar incident in 1989 involving...
- The Hindenberg
- The Exxon Valdez
- Mauna Loa
- Yosemite
- The Great Barrier Reef
7.Which is largest?
- Eleven squared
- Seven cubed minus ten squared
- Four cubed times two squared
- Twelve squared minus three cubed
- Nine squared plus two cubed
8.Which of the following uses a different figure of speech from the rest?
- He ran like the wind.
- Her hair looks like golden threads.
- The runner's feet felt like lead.
- This ice cream tastes like dirt.
- His guilt was a heavy burden.
9.Two consecutive numbers, one prime and one not, add up to 75. What is the larger number?
- 35
- 37
- 41
- 36
- 38
10.Which does not belong?
- hexagon
- square
- octagon
- trapezoid
- pentagon
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