TeachersFirst's Elementary School Brain Twisters

Week of November 27, 2020

1.This man is known for his accomplishments as a freed slave, an educator, and a leader nationally-respected leader at the start of the twentieth century: (20 points)

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Washington Irving

2.Which sentence is the poorest fit in a paragraph with the other sentences, no matter what the order? (20 points)

Scientists predict their estimate for the number of named storms.
People are still talking about Sandy.
The predictions are based on many things, including the temperature of the oceans.
Some years we have far fewer than are predicted.
Hurricane seasons vary from year to year.

3.Which is not a composite number? (5 points)

4.Wilbur and Orville had their historic first success here. (5 points)

Salt Lake City, UT
Chatham, MA
Kitty Hawk, NC
Cape Canaveral, FL
Dayton, OH

5.Which does not belong? (5 points)

lens
menu
font
cursor
icon

6.Known as "dirty snowballs" or "cosmic snowballs," these icy, small Solar System bodies may have a life span up to thousands of years. (10 points)

meteors
trans-Neptunian objects (TNO)
centaurs
comets
asteroids

7.A floor measures 10 feet by 8 feet. How many 12 inch square tiles will it take to cover the floor? (10 points)

8.Which expression might I use to describe a text message that is "JK"? (10 points)

at arm's length
pulling my leg
a chip off the old block
a pain in the neck
off the top of my head

9.Psychologists believe that this phobia is based more on cultural beliefs than on any actual threat to human safety. Books such as Charlotte's Web help to perpetuate such phobias. (10 points)

insectophobia
claustrophobia
spectrophobia
catoptrophobia
arachnophobia

10.Which does not belong? (5 points)

lobster
frog
snail
worm
spider

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