Friday, 9/24/10
Prepare sheet for TEST #4.
Please make sure to record all warm up scores, your vocabulary
score, your crossword score, and your KBARR score.
Mental Floss.
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What are the elusive characters;
missing two letters or numbers?
W A T E __ M __
L O N ?
(In other words, what letters go in the blanks?
The answer is NOT R and E.)
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1961 was a special year (besides
the fact that Mr. Coward was born then). In fact, the next time a year
will be this special will be the year 6009. What is so special about those
two years?
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A person goes into the post
office to mail a letter. She purchases two stamps and then asks the next
person in line to put the stamps on the envelope. Why didn't she put the
stamps on herself?
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If you were running a race,
and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
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In each sentence below, an
animal is concealed. For example, the sentence, "What shall I do, Gertrude?"
has the word dog concealed. Find the hidden animal in each sentence.
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a) Horace tries in school
to be a very good boy.
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b) People who drive too fast
are likely to be arrested.
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c) For the Halloween party,
John came looking like a radish.
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When does 1+1+1=1?
TEST #4 (7th grade)
TEST #4 (8th grade)