Time Fillers

*Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance until you've done each of them..

1. Think of a number from 1 to 10.
2. Multiply that number by 9.
3. If the number is a 2-digit number, add the digits together.
4. Now subtract 5.
5. Determine which letter in the alphabet corresponds to the number you ended up with. (Example: 1=a, 2=b, 3=c, etc.)
6. Think of a country that starts with that letter.
7. Remember the last letter of the name of that country.
8. Think of the name of an animal that starts with that letter.
9. Remember the last letter in the name of that animal.
10. Think of the name of a fruit that starts with that letter.

98% of the population will think of a kangaroo in Denmark eating an orange.  If you think about it a while you will see why.

You can just do the math part of the exercise and surprise a person when you know the answer.

A Logic Problem - (for Upper Grades)

There are five houses. In each house lives a man a certain nationality, who has his favorite drink, he favorite game, and own unusual pets.

1. There are fives houses in a row, each having a different color.
2. The Englishman lives in the red house.
3. The green house is to the right to the white house.
4. The Italian owns a guppy.
5. Lemonade is drunk in the green house.
6. The Swede drinks coffee.
7. The man who plays backgammon owns a toad
8. The man who plays racquetball lives in the yellow house.
9. The man in the middle house drinks milk.
10. The Russian lives in the first house.
11. The man next door to the man who plays quoits, own a camel.
12. The man who owns the rat lives next to the man who plays racquetball.
13. The man who plays solitaire drinks vodka.
14. The man who plays charades is an American.
15. The Russian lives next door to the blue house.

With the above information you can discover the answer to the following questions.

Question 1- Which man drinks diet soda?

Question 2-Which man owns a spider monkey ?

Color Test

Color Test

Quiz for People Who Know Everything

Author Unknown

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several  growing seasons.  All other  vegetables must be replanted every year.  What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine;  it hasn't been cut in any way.  How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words.
Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.  Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S."

 
Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants  know the score or the leader until the
contest ends: Boxing.

2. North American landmark constantly moving backward:  Niagara Falls .  (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and
rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside:  Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle?  It grew inside the bottle.  The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree.  The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.

6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh:
Lettuce.
 
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S':  Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers,
slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,  stockings, stilts.