Grandpa's Weather Radio
Grandpa keeps 4 candles in basement for when power goes out. Candles’ expected burn durations are respectively: 2 hours, 1 hour, 30 mins, and 15 mins. By burning one at a time, how long will Grandpa have light from at least one candle?
A. 145 minutes
B. 225 minutes
C. 250 minutes
D. 325 minutes
What is B: 225 minutes.
How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
What is B: 3 teaspoons.
How many triangles can be generated from an "idealized" Christmas tree representation?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 6D. Infinity
What is D: Infinity
If a punchcard has 12 rows and 24 columns, how many bytes can the card store?
A. 12
B. 36
C. 64
D. 288
What is D: 288 bytes.
Grandma is wearing heels, where her left heel is 0.5" shorter than the other. If she closes her eyes and walks, which direction will she most likely walk?
A. Circular in clockwise direction.
B. Circular in counter-clockwise direction.
C. Straight forward.
D. Into the person in front of her.
What is D: Into the person in front of her.
Grandpa’s weather radio goes off for bad weather within a 300-mile radius. If a tornado is 50 miles away moving towards radio at 25mph, how long will it take to become a risk:
A. 2 minutes
B. 1 hour
C. 120 minutes
D. 300 minutes
What is C: 120 minutes.
How many tablespoons are in a pint?
A. 8
B. 16
C. 32
D. 64
What is C: 32 tablespoons.
What kind of a shape is the star on top of a Christmas Tree?
A. Pentagon
B. Icosagon
C. Nonagon
D. Decagon
What is D: Decagon.
Grandpa's workbench has 6 outlets. One has a 115V sautering iron plugged in. How many 120V drilles can be plugged in to the workbench?
A. 5
B. 4
C. 6
D. 3
What is A: 5 drills.
Grandma leaves approx. 0.1 mm of lipstick in her coffee cup every thime she uses it. If she uses the coffe cup 2 times per day for a week, how thick will the lipstick be before cleaning?
A. 0.7 mm
B. 1.4 mm
C. 2.7 mm
D. 14 mm
The upstairs and downstairs weather radios go off at different times. The cause is most likely:
A. The weather band frequencies are different
B. One set of batteries is dead
C. They run on different voltages
D. They are separated by exactly one wavelength
What is A: The weather band frequencies are different.
Grandma makes a rectangular sheet of cookie dough that is 12” by 16”. She wants to make circular cookies, each of which has a diameter of 4”. How many of these cookies could she make?
A. 10
B. 12
C. 15
D. 18
What is C: 15 cookies.
There are 100 ornaments spread throughout my Christmas Tree. If I make the base and height of tree twice as large, how many more ornaments would I have to buy to keep the spacing between the ornaments on the tree the same?
A. 200
B. 300
C. 500
D. 700
What is B: 300 ornaments.
The combination lock on Grandpa's white cabinet has 30 numbers on it. The combination needed to open the lock consists of 3 numbers. If Brian and Julie spend 5 seconds per combination trying to open it, what is the maximum time they will spend on it until they are successful?
A. 26000 seconds
B. 57000 seconds
C. 108000 seconds
D. 135000 seconds
What is D: 135000 seconds.
Grandma gains a net 3.5 pounds over the holidays, then loses 4.5 pounds over he course of the remaining year. Assyming Grandma weights 100 pounds now, how long will it take until she reaches the ideal weight of 0 pounds?
A. 10 years
B. 100 years
C. 1000 years
D. Will never happen
What is B: 100 years.
Grandpa wants to extend his weather radio’s reception capabilities beyond its current antenna’s capabilities. He adds a tin-foil flag to the end having a surface area of 2-sq ft. It works using the mathematical/scientific principle of:
A. Newton’s Third Law
B. Pascal’s Triangle
C. Volta’s Law of Reciprocity
D. Faraday’s Law
What is D: Faraday's Law.
How many teaspoons are in a gallon?
A. 768
B. 1056
C. 1564
D. 1892
What is A: 768 teaspoons.
The trunk of a tree is 1 foot in diameter, and has a height of 80 feet. How much wood is in the trunk?
A. 48 ft3
B. 57 ft3
C. 62 ft3
D. 87 ft3
What is C: 62 ft3
Ohm's Law states that the voltage in a circuit is equal to the product of:
A. Current and Resistance
B. Charge and Resistance
C. Current and ChargeD. Resistance and Energy
What is A: Current and Resistance
Grandma's sequin dress has an external surface area of 10 square feet. Sequins cover all of it with an average of 20 sequins per square inch. Around how many sequins cover the entire dress?
A. 7,200
B. 14,400
C. 28,800
D. 57,600
What is C: 28,800 sequins.
Grandpa’s radio antenna segments are same length as NOAA’s broadcast wavelength. If you extend antenna by 1-1/2 times its current length of one segment, the reception will improve by what?
A. 50%
B. 100%
C. 150%
D. 200%
What is D: 200%.
Grandma bakes a cake, and wants to preserve it for as long as possible. She plans to do the following: each day, she will eat a slice 2/3 as big as the slice that she ate the previous day, starting with a slice that is an eighth of the cake. After a year, about how much of the cake would she have eaten?
A. 25%
B. 33%
C. 37%
D. 41%
What is C: 37%.
A lot of Christmas Tree ornaments were blown to a diameter of 2 inches. The thickness of the glass is about 0.1 inches. About how much empty space is inside of the ornament?
A. 2 cubic inches
B. 2 and 1/2 cubic inches
C. 3 cubic inches
D. 3 and 1/2 cubic inches
What is C: 3 cubic inches.
How many 12*24 punch cards would be needed to store a MP3 of Happy by Pharrell Williams?
A. 98500 punch cards.
B. 101667 punch cards.
C. 146750 punch cards.
D. 456334 punch cards.
What is B: 101667 punch cards.
Grandma has a party dress covered with a pattern of one shape. Which of the following shapes could it not be?
A. Triangle
B. Square
C. Hexagon
D. Octagon
What is D: An Octagon