TeachersFirst's Elementary School Brain Twisters

Week of June 9, 2025

1.Who was most likely to be offended by the Declaration of Independence?

• The French
• The British
• The Colonists
• The shipbuilders
• The shopkeepers

2.Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan stories could also be called:

• poems
• fairy tales
• short summaries
• fables
• tall tales

3.There are 17 students in Madison's English class. If they bring 60 cupcakes to celebrate surviving summer school, and share them equally, how many will be left over for the teacher to eat?

• 9
• 11
• 7
• 3
• 5

4.Which sentence has an incorrect verb?

• Each of Shauna's friends like ice cream.
• Alison thinks nuts are what is making her face break out.
• Are parents allow us two eat dessert first on special occasions.
• Ice cream tastes best out of a cone.
• Shauna and mine favorite is butter pecan.

5.Which unscrambled summer word comes last in the dictionary?

• OCANVITA
• NENUSSHI
• MISGIWNM
• RELISUE
• COTSLISE

6.FEMA and EF5 are abbreviations you might hear in news stories about

• Hurricanes
• Tornadoes
• Congress
• Wall Street
• Earthquakes

7.___________, the brightest star visible in the night sky, is also known as the "Dog Star."

• Betelgeuse
• Polaris
• Sirius
• Callisto
• Mizar

8.Ralph's lawn sprinklers use 15 gallons of water per minute. If he waters every 7 days, running the sprinklers for 45 minutes each time, how much water will he use on his lawn during the hottest twelve weeks of summer?

• 4725 gal.
• 8100 gal.
• not enough information
• 56,700 gal.
• 3780 gal.

9.Your thermometer has four lines between 70 and 80. Yesterday the high temperature was two lines above 90. How hot was it?

• 96
• 92
• 88
• 94
• 98

10.Which food belongs in the group of which you should have the fewest servings per day?

• Apples
• Rice
• Cheese
• Steak
• Chocolate

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