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Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 50mins
How many blocks?
7
8
9
19
Yes!
No!
What is the answer?
65
55
35
45
32
38
40
50
What piece goes there?
A
B
C
D
E
78
18
89
87
7
8
9
12
How many triangles are there?
8
12
16
18
Right
Left
There are 5 apples and you take 3. How many apples do you have?
5
3
2
0
How many months have 28 days?
all of them
1
February
What about leap years?
What is heavier 100kg of gold or 100 kg of feathers?
gold
feathers
they are both the same
What if the scale is incorrect?
What will you write in place of question mark in the picture?
18
14
50
30
How many squares are there?
9
10
14
18
What comes next in this pattern: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ?
15
17
19
21
How many books are on the shelf if the 16th book is the middle one?
16
31
36
46
Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?
Thursday
Friday
Jimmy
Jim
Bob
Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. What’s the answer?
25
35
70
80
What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __ (2 minutes) Clue, Months
J, A, M
N, O, D
S, O, N
O, N, D
1
5
3
7
Can you identify the Apple Logo?
Top right
Bottom right
Top left
None of them
Bottom left
A rooster laid an egg on the top of a roof. Which way did it roll?
north
down
when do roosters lay eggs?
it didn't roll, it stayed on top
What goes up but never comes down?
age
clouds
basketball
Christmas tree
How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 feet long and 4 feet wide?
one grain of dirt
5kg
roughly 10 kg
none. How is there dirt in a hole?
There are 5 apples and you take 3. How many apples do you have?
5
3
2
0
How many months have 28 days?
all of them
1
February
What about leap years?
What is always coming but never comes?
the past
the future
traffic
tomorrow
What is heavier 100kg of gold or 100 kg of feathers?
gold
feathers
they are both the same
What if the scale is incorrect?
There are 14 fish and 8 drown, how many fish are there?
6
8
14
none, since the rest swam away
Before Mt Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Mt Fuji
Mt Aconcagua
Mt Rainier
Mt Everest
A clerk at a butcher is 161.8cm tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
meat
71 kg
there's not enough information given
212 pounds
If you throw a red stone into a blue sea, what will it become?
its still a red stone
a sea with a stone
purple
wet
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
towel
water
sea
wind
Imagine you are locked in a dark room with no windows. How do you escape?
call for help
search for a hidden message
do a barrel roll
stop imagining
What gets broken without being held?
a promise
a vase
silence
air
How many of each species did Moses take on the arc with him?
2
3
0
a male and a female
If you take off my skin I won't cry, but you will. What am I?
a bandaid
an animal
a human
an onion
There are 10 lit candles on a cake, you blow out 3. How many candles are on the cake?
10
3
7
13
There are three houses. One is red, one is blue, and one is white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right to the house in the middle, where is the white house? (2 minutes)
In the middle
On the left
On the right
Other
You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match on you. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire? (1 minute)
Match
Newspaper
Lamp
Candle
Fire
Who is bigger: Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby? (30 seconds)
Little Bigger (Baby)
Mr.Bigger
Mrs.Bigger
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but nine die. How many are left? (10 seconds)
8
7
9
17
How far can a rabbit run into the woods? (30 seconds)
Half Way
All the Way
A quarter of the way
None
What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __ (2 minutes) Clue, Months
J, A, M
N, O, D
S, O, N
O, N, D
Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?
(10 seconds)
Thursday
Friday
Jimmy
Jim
Bob
A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to school. When he returns in the afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why? (1 minute)
Because it broke
Because it is his favorite number
Because he wanted a workout
Because he could only reach 5
A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors? (10 seconds)
Yes
No
You are driving a bus. At the first stop, two women get on. The second stop, three men get on and one woman gets off. At the third stop, three kids and their mom get on, and a man gets off. The bus is grey, and it is raining outside. What color is the bus driver’s hair? (20 seconds)
Blond
Brown
Black
Green
Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? (20 seconds)
Sponge
Fire
You
Someone who is allergic to water
Which travels faster? Hot or Cold? (10 seconds)
Hot
Cold
When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you do not have me. (20 seconds)
Candy
Secret
Food
Money
What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands? (10 seconds)
A secret
Your Breath
