TeachersFirst's Middle School Brain Twisters

Week of April 21, 2025

1.Which sentence is grammatically correct?

No one will forget the Civil War.
Four score and seven years ago are a long time.
Thousands of soldiers was killed in the fighting.
Train track still run through Gettysburg.
You can sea a statue of General Lee on his horse.

2.Carol's class has 40 students. If 10% of them move out of town and 5% don't get promoted, how many of the students will be in the next grade at her school?

3.Which is important in two-dimensional representations of perspective?

Convergence
Concentricism
Congregation
Convection
Congruence

4.Two brothers, one a U.S. citizen, were accused of doing something very un"patriotic" at the end of an annual event in Paul Revere's home town. What is the length of the "event" that was so terribly disrupted?

1776 years
5K
72 hours
26.2 miles
5280 feet

5.Fred has 25 baseball cards, and Dylan has 75. If Scott adds his 50 cards, what is the average number of cards each person has?

6.Which is NOT used to measure aspects of natural disasters?

the Richter scale
an ohmmeter
the Fujita scale
an anemometer
the Saffir-Simpson scale

7.The continental divide separates:

the Rocky Mountains from the Appalachian Mountains
the U.S. and Canada
rivers that flow to the Atlantic from those that flow to the Pacific
the great plains from the mountains
the north from the south

8.Which country borders none of the others?

France
Switzerland
Austria
Italy
Portugal

9.A late May U.S. national holiday once was celebrated as "heartily" in some parts of the country. This was because...

Flag Day celebrates a flag that some do not like.
Veterans' Day is considered too old-fashioned.
It is too cold outside in some parts of the country.
Fathers' Day is considered unfair to Mothers.
Decoration Day/Memorial Day was once seen as a northern holiday.

10.John Steinbeck's book about the Great Depression has this in its title.

a pet
an ocean
a fruit
a vegetable
a continent

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