Common Word Connections
LOCK — PIANO
What is key?
The weight of the average brain in pounds
What is 3 pounds?
The percent of water in the human brain
What is 75%?
Words that are the same forwards and backwards
What is a palindrome?
Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?
What is Johnny?
EGYPTIAN — MOTHER
What is mummy?
The region of the brain that controls basic life function
What is the brain stem?
The animal with the largest brain
What is a sperm whale?
Words that have the same sound, can be spelled the same or differently and have different meanings
What is a homonym (same spelling); What is a homophone (different spelling)?
A word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly
What is incorrectly?
TREE — CAR
What is trunk?
The brain is comprised of 4 lobes, which serve different functions.
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes?
The brain is full of nerve cells called neurons. The average number of neurons in the brain
What is 100 billion?
Words that are spelled the same and have the same or different sound, can be spelled the same or differently and have different meanings
What is a homograph (same or different spelling); What is a heteronym (different spelling)?
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
What is Mount Everest?
PILLOW — COURT
What is case?
The speed information travels between neurons
What is 250 mph?
The age memory function begins to decline
What is 20 years old?
Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters “dw” and they are all common words. Name two of them.
What are dwarf, dwell, and dwindle?
How far can you run into the woods?
What is Half Way?
SCHOOL — EYE
What is pupil?
This neurotransmitter is involved with motivation, reward, and fine tune motor skills. Hint: It is also linked to Parkinson’s and Schizophrenia
What is dopamine?
Two regions of the brain specifically involved in language.
What are Broca's and Wernicke's areas?
A seven letter word in English that consists 10 different words without rearranging them
What is therein?
10 words: there, the, he, here, her, ere, rein, in, therein, herein
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing. What am I?
What is the letter 'T'?