TeachersFirst's Elementary School Brain Twisters

Week of March 21, 2025

1.Which pair of numbers has the most common factors? (10 points)

• 22,44
• 24,36
• 72,63
• 15,18
• 54,36

2.The Everglades are located in this state: (5 points)

• New Mexico
• Florida
• Texas
• Georgia
• Louisiana

3.Which invention came last? (5 points)

• camera
• car
• DVD
• telephone
• locomotive

4.Which could not be a definition for a word pronounced kur-uhnt (20 points)

• a small seedless raisin
• mean and dog-like
• a flow, as in water
• electricity
• happening now

5.What part of your body loses heat most quickly? (10 points)

• feet
• head
• nose
• toes
• hand

6.Which is greatest? (5 points)

• a baker's dozen
• a dozen and a half
• six dozen dozen
• a half dozen dozen
• half a dozen

7.If you add the number of Snow White's dwarfs to the number of blackbirds that baked in a pie and divide by four, you would get. (10 points)

• an answer equal to the number of the earth's moons
• a number with three factors
• an answer divisible by three
• an answer with a remainder
• an answer with no remainder

8.This glamorous Western mail service only lasted about 1 year. (20 points)

• railroad mail
• stagecoach
• Carrier pigeon
• pony express
• steamship

9.If the car in which you are riding stops suddenly, the force that pulls you against your seatbelt is called: (10 points)

• vehicle
• acceleration
• velocity
• inertia
• deceleration

10.Which sentence is a type different from any other in this list? (5 points)

• The policeman interrogated the prisoner.
• Don't forget your helmet.
• The crime took place at night.
• Didn't you see the car's headlights?
• Look both ways.

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