Vocabulary
Brain Teasers
Description
Goals
Bonus
100

Tending to talk a great deal; talkative

What is loquacious? 

100

•A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.

•He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing.

•If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken.

•If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

•How does the man do it?

What is

•The man and the chicken cross the river, (the fox and corn are safe together), he leaves the chicken on the other side and goes back across.

•The man then takes the fox across the river, and since he can't leave the fox and chicken together, he brings the chicken back.

•Again, since the chicken and corn can't be left together, he leaves the chicken and he takes the corn across and leaves it with the fox.

•He then returns to pick up the chicken and heads across the river one last time.

100

In an emergency situations in which there are numerous people around witnessing an event, but all fail to intervene on behalf of the victim.

What is the bystander effect?

100

You make this goal for the immediate future.

What is a short term goal?

100

What official document holds all of your credits earned in high school?

What is a transcript?

200

Unclear or vague in meaning

What is ambiguous? 

200

How would you rearrange the letters in the words "new door“ to make one word? There is only one correct answer.

What is one word?

200

In the What Would You Do clip, what was the reaction of each person in the restaurant when the mother could not afford to pay?

What is, they each helped and paid for their meal?

200

You make this goal for next year

What is a long term goal?

200

How many credits do you need to graduate from Highville Charter School & Change Academy?

What are 25 credits?

300

To scold or criticize

What is berate? 

300

You leave home and go to your right. You reach a corner and turn left. You reach another corner and turn left again. You reach another corner and turn left again and go home. When you get there, there is a person with a mask there waiting for you. What’s happening?

What is, you are playing baseball?

300

Describe what happens when there is clear and direct information provided to a person

What is, the person is providing effective communication and the the person receiving the information can fully understand the information being relayed?

300

When you do not make your goal a priority is an example of....

What is an obstacle?

300

What is Ms. Vereen's # 1 rule from Our Charter?

What is, One Mic?  

Only one person speaking at a time.

400

Free money from schools or the government, based on financial need. You do NOT have to pay them back.

What are grants?

400

Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

What is the number 8?

400

Describe a situation in which someone conforms to the norms of the group. 

What is, a person follows what everyone else is doing, whether it is the right thing to do or even if it is the wrong thing to do?

400

Improves decision making is an example of...

What is a benefit of setting goals?

400

A common type of cyber attack that targets individuals through email, text messages, phone calls, and other forms of communication.

What is phishing?

500

The exchange of information between a sender and receiver.

What is communication?

500

Take 1000 and add 40 to it.! Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add  another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?

What is 4100?

500

Describe what it takes to qualify for a scholarship. 

What is, the person would have to meet the eligibility requirements of the individual scholarship? 

500

What do the letters S.M.A.R.T. stand for 

What is: 

S- Specific: which, what, who, where, when, why

M-Measurable: how much or how many

A-Attainable: Reasonable and physically possible

R-Realistic: make them challenging but relevant

T-Timely: by when

500

What are the 6 Holland Traits revealed when you took the Career Interest Profiler in Naviance?

What are,

Enterprising, Artistic, Social, Conventional, Realistic, and Investigative? 

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