Brainteasers + States

FUNDI the clothes

100

TABLE

 BELT

200

CRAFTS

 SCARF

300

ACTOR

COAT

400

THEIRS

SHIRT

500

HEN COOP

PONCHO

Homophones

100

relating to the air or aircraft

relating to an area or spatial extent

aerial/areal

200

the digit zero 

expressing duty or obligation

aught/ought

300

the outer covering of trees

a sailing vessel with three or more masts

bark/barque

400

a powerful businessperson, a nobleman

too poor to produce vegetation; lacking, empty

baron/barren

500

lure for catching fish/animals; to entice or taunt

to restrain, lessen intensit

bait/bate

Prime Time Rhyme

100

One of the five senses; To reside or inhabit; A witch’s incantation

Smell, dwell, spell

200

Unit of a book or magazine; Salary; An actor’s milieu

Page; Wage; Stage

300

A sharp blow with a whip or stick; A quick, sudden bright light; Rubbish

Lash; Flash; Trash

400

To speak low and indistinctly; To fall apart into small pieces; To drop the football

 Mumble; Crumble; Fumble

500

Difficulty or cause of worry; The space telescope launched in 1990; Betty and Barney’s surname

Trouble; Hubble; Rubble

States

100

• The first state to secede from the Union (December 1860); the Civil War began when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor
• Produces more peaches than the "Peach State"

South Carolina

200

• Birthplace of seven U.S. presidents (more than any other state): Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, and Harding
• The Wright Brothers, Neil Armstrong, and John Glenn were all born here, earning it the nickname "Birthplace of Aviation"

Ohio

300

• Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States (1,943 feet) and one of the clearest in the world
• The only state flag with different designs on each side (state seal on front, beaver on back)

Oregon

400

• Has more man-made lakes than any other state (over 200)
• The end point of the Trail of Tears; more than 39 Native American tribes are headquartered here today

Oklahoma

500

• Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the United States (founded 1610)
• Site of the first atomic bomb test (Trinity Site) on July 16, 1945

New Mexico