Friday, 5/6/11 (28)
Prepare sheet for test.
Mental Floss.

1. Wacky Wordy:   NOTHING - NO + SOME
2. Find the name of a planet hidden in each of the following sentences:
• a) "Steven, use the screwdriver to build those shelves."
• b) Everyone takes a turn in the cage.
• c) "Catherine, you ran us over with your bicycle!"
• d) "Sam, arsenic is poisonous. I read about it on the internet.
3. What two words contain the most letters?
4. In what month do Americans eat the least amount of food?
5. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the middle field?
6. 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     Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
• a)  area between mountains -->   narrow passage between buildings
• b) spew out -->  leave out
• c) selling -->  stopping

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