Brain Teasers
What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
What is a stamp.
Who is the main teacher in the movie?
Who is Erin Gruwell
Jimmy's mother had 4 children. She named the first Monday, the second Tuesday, and the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?
Who is Jimmy
Who is the main character in Milkweed?
Who is Stopthief/Misha
What is the dependent clause in this sentence?
When the bell rang, the students rushed out of class.
What is when the bell rang.
I shave every day, yet my hair gets longer. What am I?
What is a barber.
What subject does Erin Gruwell teach?
What is English
Mike is a butcher. He is 5ft, 10in tall. What does he weigh?
What is meat.
Where does the story take place?
What is Warsaw, Poland
Explain the difference between “your” and “you’re.”
Your - You own it
You're - Contraction you are
In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower--everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
What is there were no stairs. It's a one-story house
What game does Erin use to show the students their similarities?
What is the Line Game
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
What is a map.
Who takes Misha in and becomes like family to him?
Who is Janina and her family
Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?
Although it was raining, we continued the soccer game.
What is Complex
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
What is seven.
Where does the movie take place?
What is Long Beach, California
How many seconds are in a year?
What is 12! Each month has a 2nd.
What object does Janina treasure the most?
What is her shiny black shoes
Fill in the blank with the correct verb:
Neither of the boys ______ ready for the test.
What is the word is.
What 5 letter word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
What is short
What book does Erin Gruwell introduce to the class?
What is the Diary of Anne Frank
What is one question you can never answer truthfully?
What is are you asleep?
What does the milkweed plant symbolize in the novel?
What is Hope
Correct the capitalization errors:
last summer we visited san antonio texas.
What is Last, San Antonio Texas