TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of March 21, 2025

1.Which combination will hold the most pictures for the new digital camera Elvis' parents plan to give him for his birthday? (10 points)

• Two 128 Mb memory cards
• Three 32 Mb and four 127 Mb memory cards
• One 1 Gb card and one 8 Mb card
• Eight 64 Mb and two 128 Mb cards
• Five 64 Mb memory cards

2.Which occasion or event is not during the same month as the rest? (20 points)

• Tax day (US)
• Columbine anniversary
• Beethoven's birthday
• Earth day
• Battle of Lexington/Concord

3.Garnish is to entree as... (5 points)

• Eat is to dinner
• Lace is to blouse
• Carpenter is to router.
• Clock is to time
• Order is to menu

4.Which pair does not match? (5 points)

• Lagoon-Nebraska
• Peninsula-Michigan
• Cape-South Africa
• Archipelago-Hawaii
• Isthmus-Panama

5.In theory, global warming could: (10 points)

• raise the oceans' level
• all of the these
• force farmers to raise different crops
• change the forests
• increase air conditioning costs

6.Which has the most employees? (10 points)

• The FBI
• The U.S. Department of Defense
• The U.S. Department of the Interior
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture
• The U.S. Supreme Court

7.A flight lands leaves San Diego at 4:50 Pacific Daylight time and lands in Gary, Indiana at 6:18 local time. How long was the flight? (20 points)

• 3 hrs. 28 min.
• 4 hrs. 28 min.
• 5 hrs. 8 min.
• 4 hrs. 32. min.
• 4 hrs. 46 min.

8.Thunderstorms occur when warm, moist air collides with: (10 points)

• colder air
• flat land
• warm, dry air
• wind
• mountains

9.When a person tweets, what does not happen? (5 points)

• His/her phone rings.
• His/her identity is shown with an @ symbol.
• Followers know about it.
• He/she speaks in fewer than 280 characters.
• Others can retweet it.

10.Which of these colors has the fewest rhymes in English? (5 points)

• coral
• navy
• kelly
• orange
• scarlet

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