TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of June 15, 2025

1.Which sentence is correct?

She gets mad at him, and yells.
Its not fair that we all get in trouble.
I'm not the one whose to blame.
I just sit quietly, eating my own dessert.
My little brother eats my sisters dessert.

2.What two numbers come next in this sequence. 5, 25, 10, 6, 36, 20, 7, 49, 30, 8,

75, 50
68, 35
63, 70
64, 40
62, 30

3.Which does not border Vermont?

Massachusetts
New York
New Hampshire
Maine
Canada

4.The Heron's flat-roof house has a very large tree nearby. When Mrs. Heron stood on the roof and used a laser tool to measure the distance from the top of the closest corner of the house on a level line to the tree, she measured 12 feet. When she measured from that same corner up at an angle to the top of the tree, she got 20 feet. How much taller is the tree than the house?

20 feet
18 feet
16 feet
not enough information
22.5 feet

5.Which scientist is incorrectly paired with the item he/she might study?

Microbiologist- nebula
Paleontologist - tibia
Physicist - inertia
Zoologist - gorilla
Botanist - petunia

6.The Chinese proverb, "Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself" is really about

grammar
exits and safety
building methods
skeletal-muscular systems
personal accountability

7.An "audible" on a football field is:

Something many players break
Something the groundskeeper should fix
Something the other players hear
Something that needs to be x-rayed
Something the coach tells the press

8.Which is not a renewable resource?

Oil
Fish
Water
Lumber
Geothermal energy

9."Mr. Pomeroy is an august gentleman who articulates his opinions diplomatically." The name of a month, in this sentence, has more to do with:

being mean
being warm
being shy
being impressive
being heavy

10.In what time zone do you find the easternmost point in Canada ?

Pacific
Eastern
Mountain
Greenwich
Atlantic

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