TeachersFirst's Elementary School Brain Twisters

Week of June 5, 2026

1.If you take the number of stars on Betsy Ross' flag and multiply it by the number of branches of US government, you get a number: (20 points)

• more than the number of senators in the US Senate
• more than the number of US states
• more than the number of years since the Declaration of Independence
• more than the number of years the American Revolution was fought
• less than the number of sides on the Pentagon

2.Which of these could also be called a "pentapede," if such a word existed? (10 points)

• an octopus
• a starfish
• a sand dollar
• an eel
• a hermit crab

3.Which isn't in the "home row"? (10 points)

• G
• D
• M
• L
• F

4.Take a group of five numbers. If you add them together and divide their sum by 5, you will have: (5 points)

• an even number
• their divisor
• their mean
• their square root
• a number smaller than any of the 5 numbers.

5."Patty pununified the pavish pancakes porpelly inside the perdy pratrub." - In this sentence, context clues tell you parts of speech. Which pair below is wrong? (20 points)

• Perdy - adjective
• Pununified - verb
• Pavish - adjective
• Pratrub - noun
• Porpelly - adjective

6.Which is an incorrect match of an abbreviated state capital and state? (10 points)

• P. , PA
• T. , FL
• A. , NY
• S. , IL
• S. , CA

7.Which of these numbers is a prime factor of 68? (5 points)

• 11
• 17
• 5
• 3
• 7

8.Dalmatian is to Collie as: (10 points)

• Car is to tire
• Siamese is to cat
• Trumpet is to trombone
• Finger is to hand
• Cheese is to cheddar

9.A baby whale is called a (5 points)

• kid
• minnow
• whalelet
• calf
• pup

10.If the beach is larger in the afternoon than it was in the morning, it's probably because (5 points)

• erosion is at work
• you put on your glasses
• trucks dumped more sand
• the water evaporated
• the tide went out

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