TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of January 31, 2025

1.Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation attempts to simulate

• amputation and ambulation
• circulation and ventilation
• body warmth and skin coloration
• estimation and palpation
• conflagration manipulation

2.Your bag of Valentine hearts has nine banana, four cherry, twelve apple, six watermelon, and five lime. What is the chance that the first heart you pick out will be watermelon?

• 1/9
• 1/2
• 3/5
• 1/3
• 1/6

3.In a famous event on Valentine's Day in the Windy City, many lost their lives because of ill will between these two:

• Daley and Guiliani
• Moran and Capone
• Capone and Dillinger
• Cupid and Aphrodite
• Sandburg and Frost

4.RSRRD VLTSRBL This vowel-less, spaceless poem ends with...

• candy
• true
• heart
• you
• horse

5.Every girl in Ms. Sweetheart's room received a one pound box of Valentine chocolates and shared half of them with the 9 boys in the room. The boys each received 10 ounces of candy, and Ms. Sweetheart kept the remainders so the boys would not fight over them (since there were not enough to go around). How many girls were in the room?

• not enough information
• 10
• 12
• 11
• 9

6.How many time zones are there in the United States?

• 5
• 4
• 6
• 8
• 3

7.The best restaurant in town is very busy on Valentine's Day. They can seat, serve, and complete and clean up after a couple's meal in 2 hours and 10 minutes. They have 26 tables for two and 15 tables that can be converted from their usual foursomes into two twosomes. How many couples can they serve during their normal business hours of 5 pm to 11 pm, assuming they need no more than 5 minutes between the departure of one couple and the seating of the next and their customers will accept any reservation time available?

• 112 couples
• not enough information
• 123 couples
• 84 couples
• 110 couples

8.Which expression is used to describe unfortunate valentines?

• star-struck
• starry-eyed
• star-bright
• star-crossed
• star-gazing

9.To convert square feet to square yards, you:

• multiply by 3
• add 12
• divide by the number of sides
• multiply by 4
• divide by 9

10.A section that is repeated in a poem is called a:

• meter
• Haiku
• stanza
• refrain
• sonnet

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