The Quiz Page!

Many of you have enjoyed our quizzes throughout the years, and a few have even asked that we publish them! So, here they are! Use them as you wish- for classroom projects, to stump a friend, or just to have fun solving!

August 2005

 

Chocolate Quiz!


After visiting the South Bend Chocolate Factory, Dave, Sue and Rebekah each received a bag of chocolate samples, each weighing 1/2 pound. Dave had a bag of 27 double-dipped peanuts. Rebekah had one less than twice as many Giant Malted Milk Balls as Dave's peanuts, and Sue had four more Chocolate Popcorn Crunch pieces than Rebekah's number of Malted Milk Balls. Each ate five pieces of their own candy and shared two pieces with each of the other two on the way home, which were also rapidly consumed. How many total pieces of candy made it home?

June 2004-Melodic Geography

Many songs, from both the past and the present, have the names of states in the title. Can you name five?

1._________________________

2._________________________

3._________________________

4._________________________

5._________________________

Here's a sample- "The Tennessee Waltz"- remember that? (Every child's favorite!) Go ahead and make a family game out of it - see if the new generation can think of any!

May 2004-

Getting Punchy

A Punch Bowl holds 16 cups of Fruit Punch. During a recent teen party, 13 people were invited. Figuring that each person would drink three cups of punch, how many bowls of punch should the host be prepared to make? Don't forget to add the host and the two parents- they get thirsty, too!
April 2004-

Good Eggs

Each year, a Grandmother would hide eggs for her 7 grandkids - this year, she hid 5 eggs for each child. The 1st egg contained 2 quarters, the 2nd contained 70 cents, the third had a silver dollar in it, the fourth had a nickel, and the fifth had enough pennies to equal triple of each child’s age. The grandkids were each 2 years apart, with the oldest being 15. How much total money did Grandma put in the 35 Easter eggs?
March 2004-School closing! With all the snow, Principal Smith decided to create a system so that all of his staff would get a phone call if the school was closed. So he devised a partner system. He would make a call to his secretary, who would call two teachers. Each of them would call three teachers, and each of those teachers would call three teachers, and six of those teachers would call a cafeteria staff member, and two would each call a maintenance worker. Principal Smith's wife was a teacher at that school, and he would tell her personally. With that system, the entire staff would be notified-How many teachers were at Principal Smith's school?

(Of course, the students would have to remain glued to the TV, getting the word on their day off from the local news...)

February 2004-

So Far Away.....

 

If one car heads east at 30 miles per hour, and at the same time, a car starting from the same spot heads west at 60 miles per hour, how many miles apart will they be after 150 minutes? Ah, and a bonus question- for fun- near what spot on earth would they pass each other?

Click here for the answer to the bonus...

 

January 2004-

The Fibonacci Numbers!

 

Math Quiz

With all my experience in math, I had never heard of the Fibonacci numbers until recently. You start out with 0 and 1 .You always add the last two numbers to get the next, which would be 1 in this case. (So, 0,1,1)…. Add the last two to get the next. So, 0,1,1,2. Easy!

Here is the first 8 Fibonacci numbers. 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13. Now you work it out to the 20th number. What is that number?

For more info on the Fibonacci numbers, go to:

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html

 

December 2003

The Tree

 

Math Quiz!

Time to put up the tree! As we're assembling our fake tree, I notice that it has 6 levels of branches. Each level has 7 branches. The top branches hold one ornament each– the second level branches hold 2, and so on, until you get to the sixth level of branches, which hold 6 ornaments per branch. Using this formula, how many ornaments can our tree hold?

November 2003 Word Challenge

Number 2!

Just above this sentence, you’ll see eight cards, with one letter on each. Your challenge is to find more words, using at least three cards, in left-to-right order. Here's the first- "Rank", using cards 2,6,7, & 8. You cannot change the order of the cards, but you can skip over them. Enter 7 more words below.

_______  ________  _______  ________

_______  ________  _______  ________

October 2003

How many clops in a doogle?

Math Quiz!

Converting measurements has never been my strength. So many different types of measurements, so little time! Tablespoons, acres, rods, pecks, knot...aarrrghhh!

So I've decided to add to the confusion, by creating my own measuring system. I don't measure anything with it yet, but when I decide to, well...I've got the system!

Yes, you can figure this out, by using the clues given below - here we go-

A clop is three fuddles - there are 15 fuddles in a kiddle, and 6 kiddles in a biner. A biner has half as many clops as a doogle. So- How many clops in a doogle?

 

September 2003

Girl's club Quiz!

Math Quiz!

In a local neighborhood, full of young girls, five girls gathered, and a club was formed. A clubhouse wasn't needed - they met in rotating houses. The parents liked this, because they could keep an eye on the girls, and the girls liked it, because of the refreshments. The second month, the club doubled, and continued to double through the fourth month. The fifth month, the last two girls in the neighborhood joined. How many girls were in the club?

August 2003

Roll 'em!!

Did you know that it takes 24 frames (or pictures) on a roll of film to produce one second of a feature film for theaters?

Recently, we went to see a film at the theater. The film lasted 2 hours and 32 minutes. Considering that you can take 16 frames on one foot of 35mm film, how many feet long would the film be?

Put on your thinking caps for this one!  How exciting!

July 2003

Sequence– Almost!

Math Quiz-

Dr. A. Dishen was lining up his numbers in a sequence. He took each multiple of the number seven that was less than the number 100, and placed all fourteen of them on the table.He then carefully placed them in order (beginning with seven, of course). His bumbling servant came along and bumped the table, sending one of the numbers in the sequence into the huge box that kept all of Dr. Dishen’s numbers. Oh, no! Which number was it? He couldn’t figure it out, so he just left it alone!

Dr. A. Dishen knew something was wrong, when he came back in and added up his sequenced numbers- the sum was 672- that's not right! What number had the servant knocked off the table?

June 2003

The cost of gas...

Everyone complains about how much gas prices are, but it is all a matter of perspective. My mother used to tell me how bread was only a nickel, and gas was 20 cents a gallon.

Considering that bread is a dollar now, how much would gas be if it had gone up at the same percentage?

May 2003

Math Quiz

With school almost over, It might be interesting to calculate how much time the students really spend in school- so let’s do it!

An average school has a seven hour full day - half days are four hours.

Consider the ABC school, in which the students attended 181 days of school. They had 16 half-days. One day they were released 2 hours early because of an ice storm, and one day they were held one hour longer because of a tornado threat.

So, not including riding the bus, or after-school activities, or homework, how many hours did the students at ABC school go to class?

April 2003

Math Quiz–

Adventures in Odyssey is my favorite radio adventure, and we carry all the broadcasts at our store. They are excellent for travel, and both kids and adults can enjoy them.

The broadcasts are packaged in albums of 12 - they have published 38 sequential albums so far - how many total albums will they have to produce to reach the 500th ?

March 2003

Math Quiz!

The Law of Averages...

If there are 24 pages on our store's "Good4kids.com" website, and it takes two hours to visit and study them all, what is the average time spent on each page?

 

 

February 2003

Moon Quiz!

 

The moon rotates around the Earth every 28 days. A "Full Moon" is when the Sun fully illuminates the side of the Moon that faces Earth. Tell me– how many Full Moons could there be in a leap year?

 

January 2003

Musical Word Challenge-

Musical notes are defined by the first 7 letters of the alphabet– A,B,C,D,E,F, AND G. Can you give me 10 words that contain only those letters? (You can use the letters more than once). Your word answers must have at least three letters each. Place your words on the inside of this newsletter in the space provided, and you’ll be eligible for the Word Challenge drawing– one entry will be chosen and that family will win a $20 Gift Certificate to our store!
December 2002-Holiday Math Quiz! In the "Twelve Days of Christmas", how many total items did the "True Love" give?

Now, I know what you are thinking! There could be two answers, depending on how you look at the song. We will accept either answer. Our goal here is to have a bit of fun, and to challenge the young minds! You as parents should decide how best to challenge your child on this one. Good Luck!

 

November 2002-

 

Just above this sentence, you’ll see seven cards, with one or two letters on each. Your challenge is to find five words, using at least three cards, in left-to-right order. Here’s the first - "Thank", using cards 1,6, & 7. You cannot break up or re-arrange the letters on the cards- if you use a double-letter card, it must remain as shown. List your words below, and turn in the coupon on the front, with this answer on the back of it-

_______ ________

_______ ________

_______ ________

 

October 2002-Gold Rush Mystery! Old Joe Picket was a gold miner. One day, he was on his way to the bank with 84 ounces of gold, because the bank was paying $25 per ounce.

Robbers attacked him on the way, and took half of his gold. One-third of the remaining gold fell out of a hole on the side of the bag before he noticed it. He then lost half of what he had in a poker game along the way.

For all the trials Old Joe went through, one thing went right for him. The next morning when he went to the bank, he found that the price of gold had just tripled.

In the bank, the teller mentioned that the robbers had been in yesterday, with the bags of gold, and cashed in at the low rate. Now the question– how much more money did the robbers get?

I hope you enjoy these quizzes– it is our hope to not just excite you about our store, but to get those young brains working, and to have an activity besides homework that the family can share!

 

September 2002-

Secret Code Quiz!

During World War 2, the Allies (that included us) were able to break both the German and the Japanese secret codes used to send information from headquarters to the various commanders in the field. Many believe that the major reason we won the war was because we had access to the enemies secret information.

Here is a "secret code" of sorts-

Here's the code– can you tell me which city is known for its steel production?

UNYYXGZWLM

How to solve– the alphabet is shifted five characters– move 5 characters forward or backward in the alphabet for each letter to solve the name. Example—G would either be B or L. Get it? If you don’t, email me at imagstat@aol.com for help! Good luck!

 

August 2002-

Math Quiz

Go Postal!

 

Here is this month's quiz-

George was given ten dollars by his mother, and was told to go by bus, and take a 9 ounce package to the Post office, buy First-class postage for it, and mail it. Then he was to stop by the local store, and pick up 2 loaves of bread that were on sale for 99 cents each. He could also buy a 50 cent candy bar. He was then to return home with the groceries and the change.

Well- the bus was 50 cents for an all-day pass. George took the bus and went to the Post Office, and found the package actually weighed 10 ounces. The first ounce cost 37 cents, and the additional ounces were 23 cents each. He mailed the package, then went to the grocery store and got the bread, and the candy was on sale at half price, so he got two candy bars. There was no tax on any purchase- how much money was George able to return to his mom?

 

July 2002-

The infamous "M&M Math Quiz"!

 

From your bag of M&M's, begin by taking out 12 pieces of candy on each of six colors- red, green, blue, orange, brown, and yellow. Now double the amount of red candies. Add seven to the blue. Find the difference between red and blue, and add that number to green. Eat all yellow ones. Multiply the orange by three. Eat six brown. Find three more green in the bag, and add them in. Find the current sum of blue and green, and add that number of red to the other red. Find the total of yellow times brown, and add that number to blue. Divide the current numbers of orange by brown, and add the answer to green. Eat all but three of the orange, and get the Pepto-Bismol! Find the total number eaten so far, and eat that many red. Take a number that is three times the number of orange, and eat that many blue. Add enough yellow to equal brown. Eat two of each current color. Multiply brown by the number you get when you divide green by blue. Find enough additional M&M's in the bag to make all six colors a minimum of 4. Add total remaining, plus those already eaten. What is the total?  

 

 June 2002-

Golf Quiz!

 

Golfing season has begun again, and I'm doing worse than usual. My average last year for 9 holes was 56. (Stop laughing!!!!) I've played four rounds this year- the scores are as follows- 51,61,57,53. If I want my average this year to equal last year's average on my next game, what score would I have to shoot for this week?

 

May 2002-

The School Bus Quiz

The Kindergarten bus left Acme School at noon, to both drop off the morning kids, and pick up the afternoon students. The bus pulled out of the school with 30 children. At the first stop, half got off, and 12 got on. At the second stop, one third of all students currently on the bus disembarked, and 12 more got on. At the final stop, the rest of the morning got off, and double that number got on the bus. The bus then arrived back at the school with how many students?

April 2002-

Solar System Quiz

 
Mercury rotates once around the Sun approximately every 88 Earth days. On the other hand, it takes the planet Jupiter 11.9 Earth years to make one orbit of the Sun. How many orbits of the Sun does Mercury complete during one of Jupiter's orbits?
 

March 2002-

The American Girl Cookie Quiz!

 
Samantha baked 4 dozen cookies on Monday. She ate two while they were hot, and so did Kirsten. Later, Samantha ate twice as many as she had eaten earlier. Felicity only ate half as much as Samantha's total. Molly ate two more than Kit, and Kit ate three less than Addy. Josephina ate nine cookies, because they were chocolate chip! And Addy had one more than half a dozen. How many cookies were left?

February 2002-History Quiz!


How many signatures are on the Declaration of Independence?
Have you ever read the Declaration of Independence? You can find it at:
http://www.good4kids.com/declaration
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 

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