mental floss

Prep sheet for Test #32:
Gramma: ___/10  ___/10  ___/10     TS Quizzes: ___/7  ___/11  ___/5    TSSQ: ___/20
Vocab h/w: ___20   Vocab Practice: ___/13  ___/13   ___/14    Giver Project:  ___/60  or  ___/75
Other Extra Credit: SAWs? Magnanimous? Spelunker?

Mental Floss.

1. If you multiply together the number of fingers on one person’s right hand with another person’s with another person’s until you get the product of the fingers on the right hands of everyone in the world, what is the most likely product? For instance, one person has 5 fingers, and his friend has 5 fingers. The product is 25. Another person with 5 fingers would make the product 125. This goes on until everyone’s finger number is multiplied. What’s the answer? Estimate what the final product would be. ( Current world population is about 6.8 billion. Alert: MATH )
2. Wacky Wordy: GWETORUSTD (Hint: $)
3. Each sentence below contains a word whose letters can be rearranged to answer or describe the sentence.
   • a) Bit of brush.
   • b) Opposite of unite.
   • c) Craft that might tip in the ocean.
4. A man asks his two sons to do a chore. When they finish, he gives them twenty five cents.  What time is it?  (haha)
5. The following clues make a pun on words that start with mis-.
   Example: This young woman could lead the orchestra. (bad behavior) Answer: Misconduct.
   • a) This young woman is in great shape. (an outsider)
   • b) This young woman is very generous at Christmas. (a doubt you might have)
   • c) This young woman showed me where to go. (lied to me)
   • d) This young woman knew exactly what I meant. (she didn’t really)

Test #32.

Doodle Theme: A new kind of amusement park.

Prep sheet for Test #31: 
Gramma: ___/10 ___/10 ___/12    Tom Sawyer: ___/10     TSSQ:___/15
Vocab h/w: ___/20    Vocab Practice: ___/13 ___/13 ___/13
Other Extra Credit: +1 or +2 for SAWs.

Mental Floss.

1. There was a man who fell over 50 stories, without anything to slow his descent, and landed without any injuries, alive. How did he survive?
2. The cost of making only the maker knows,
   Valueless if bought, but sometimes traded.
   A poor man may give one as easily as a king.
   When one is broken, pain and deceit are assured.
   What am I?
3. What word is missing? begin, inch, chapel, elastic, ___  ___  ___, cellar, arisen, end
4. Wacky Wordy:
   NO NO NO
      RIGHT
5. Tom Sawyer Anagrams:
   a) Tall Pun Yo   b) Hamsters Cool (Technically a title, not a name.) c) Put Off Term
6. Although much water you see,
   by definition, “desert” fits me.
   In the winter I double in size,
   but staying away is a word for the wise.
   I am very windy, that is a clue,
   What am I? Good luck to you. (Alert: geography.)

Test #31. Doodle Theme: Dog Party

Prep sheet for Test #30:
TS KBARR: ___/20     TS Quizzes: ___/6  ___/6
Vocab h/w: ___/20   Vocab Practice: ___/13  ___/13 ___/10
Other Extra Credit:  +3,+2, or +1 for each Gramma that had 9+ correct.

Mental Floss.

1. What sort of story begins with a limb and ends with a finish?
2. Two men got lost while exploring in the desert. Each man had a compass. One headed due East, and the other headed due West. Two hours later, they met. How?
3. Following are groups of three words. Can you figure out the common link within each group? Example: Hurricane, potato, needle, (answer: eyes)
   a) computer, onion dip, poker game
   b) bowling alley, dress-maker, wrestling match
   c) dentist, oil field, basketball practice
   d) April, locker room, brides-to-be
   e) pelican, legislature, person in debt
4. Make the matchstick dawg face the other way by moving only 2 matches. His tail must still point up!
5. There was a road around a circular lake. A man and his brother each started in the same place and drove around the lake at exactly the same speed, but in opposite directions. The first brother went clockwise around the lake at 40 mph, and the trip took him an hour and 20 minutes. The second brother went counterclockwise around the lake–also at exactly 40 mph–but his trip only took him 80 minutes. Each traveled exactly the same distance: 53.33 miles. How is that possible?

Test #30.

TEST CORRECTION in GRAMMAR SECTION:
CHOICE G should be INTERJECTION, not Preposition.

Doodle Theme: Prank.

Prep Sheet for Test #29:
Husker Du: ___/5 ___/7 ___/6 ___/6
Vocab h/w: ___/20
Vocab Practices: ___/12 ___/10 ___/10
Flying Machine: ___/12
KBARR: ___/40
Other Extra Credit: Period 2 +3 for vocab relay, all others +1. +2 for 10/10 on SAWs.

Mental Floss.

1. This sounds impossible, but it can be done. Take one from twenty nine and leave thirty. (No negative numbers.)
2. What is the next thing in this sequence. 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ____. Fill in the blank correctly.
3. You have just fallen 15 feet out of a window, completely naked! Directly beneath you is an enormous, spiky cactus. You haven’t hurt yourself! How come?
4. What North American state is round on both sides and high in the middle?
5. If George Washington were alive right now, what would he be most famous for?
6. Fill in the blanks with four words, such that the first and the fourth are the same, while the second and the third are homonyms.  A prison guard ______ ______, and a jeweler ______ ______.

Test #29. Doodle Theme: The House of the Future!