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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!
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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?
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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!
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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!
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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? |
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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...) |
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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...
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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 |
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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? |
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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.
_______ ________ _______ ________
_______ ________ _______ ________
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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?
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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? |
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August 2003
Roll 'em!!
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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!
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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 ? |
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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?
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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?
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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! |
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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!
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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-
_______ ________
_______ ________
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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!
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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!
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August 2002-
Math Quiz
Go Postal!
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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?
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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? |
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June 2002-
Golf Quiz!
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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?
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May 2002-
The School Bus Quiz
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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? |
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April 2002-
Solar System Quiz
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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?
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March 2002-
The American Girl Cookie
Quiz!
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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? |
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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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