TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of January 17, 2025

1.To convert square inches to square centimeters, you should: (10 points)

• Multiply by 2.54 and divide by 4
• Not enough information
• Multiply by 6.45
• Convert to liters
• Divide by 10

2.Who explored the land where wheelbarrows and gunpowder were first invented? (20 points)

• Vasco DaGama
• Henry Hudson
• Amundsen
• Marco Polo
• Ferdinand Magellan

3.Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death?" (10 points)

• Patrick Henry
• Paul Revere
• William Bradford
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Nelson Mandela

4.Pike's Peak is: (5 points)

• a Wyoming skyscraper
• a New Hampshire boulder
• a wrestler
• a Colorado landmark
• a hairstyle

5.How many adverbs are in the first line of the Star Spangled Banner? (5 points)

• six
• none
• two
• one
• four

6.My girlfriend is the most beautiful ever. She sings sweetly so softly while sipping soda. Her hair like spaghetti falls in a pile on the chair. She swishes her dress as she spins. Which figure of speech does this paragraph NOT use? (10 points)

• Oxymoron
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

7.Which mythological figures are incorrectly matched? (10 points)

• Zeus -- Saturn
• Hera-Juno
• Poseidon--Neptune
• Athena--Cupid
• Hephaestus-Vulcan

8.Which would save the most time in shipping exports from Mumbai to Monaco? (20 points)

• The Panama Canal
• The Suez Canal
• The Erie Canal
• The Northwest Passage
• The Ganges

9.Which is longest? (5 points)

• 25 meters
• 600 yards
• 1/4 mile
• 5280 inches
• 10,000 cm

10.Which match is incorrect? (5 points)

• paleontologist - fossil
• geologist - rock
• botanist - plant
• hematologist - stock market
• numismatist - coin

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