Friday, 3/18/11 - F/E Drill 1st Period!
Prepare sheet for Test.
Mental Floss.

1. What do you always take off last before you get into bed?
2. A man has three kids already. By July 8th, his wife will give birth to a new baby girl.  How many children will he have? (2 ways to be right.)
3. Hoops, Tiny, and Ron are the guard, center, and forward of their three-man basketball team, although not necessarily in that order. In the championship game, the guard, an only child, scored the fewest points. Ron, who dates Hoops' sister, scored more than the center. What position does each player play? (Alert: Logic.)
4. When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.

Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
• a) duplicate -- solitary
• b) poke with a stick -- a pole
• c) dresses -- possesses
• d) stay away from -> a gap
5. Given the word STANDARD, take away two letters and add three digits to make a logical sequence.
6. From these 5 words, can you change a single letter in each, to produce 5 new words? The new letters used spell the name of a fruit.

     DATE / __ATE
     NUT / N__T
     LIME / ___IME
     PEACH / P__ACH
     PEAR  / __EAR
 

Test #23 (7th grade)
Test #22 (8th grade)