Vocab Vendor
Grammatical Genius
Rates and Ratios
Perplex Percents
Miss Joyce's Jeopardy
100

This is the definition of an Aviator

What is a pilot?

100

These are the two types of nouns

What are propper and impropper nouns?

100

A 6 ounce package of dog treats contains 45 treats. How many pieces would you expect in a 10 ounce package?

What is 75 treats?

100

If Louis bought his girlfriend, Olivia, 300 flowers and 37% of the flowers died. How many flowers are still alive?

What is 189 flowers?

100

On a regular day, what does Miss Joyce's sister leave and come back to the house?

What is 8:30AM and 7:00PM?

200

An old woman told Sabrina that the trail ahead is perilous. These are synonyms to describe the path.

What are hard, treacherous, risky dangerous, unsafe, etc?

200

Sammy saw many ducks, dozens of them, around the lake.

This is the part of the sentence above that is the appositive.

What is "dozens of them"?

200

It takes Shakira 9 minutes to cut a 20 x 10 in piece of paper into 15 equal pieces. How many minutes would it take her to cut the fabric into 26 equal pieces?

What is 15.6 minutes?

200

Lyvia has read 23 novels this year, 5 of which were comic books. Estimate the percent of novels she read that were comic books.

What is 22%?

200

These are the names of the two main love interests in the musical we talked about last week, Hadestown.

What are Eurydice and Orpheus?

300

This is the difference between an anarchy government and a monarchy government.

What is an anarchy has no government and a monarchy is run by one person, namely a king, queen, or emperor?

300

This type of pronoun shows ownership. Ex: mine, yours, hers, his, ours, theirs.

What is a possessive pronoun?

300

Your vet prescribes flea prevention medicine for your 15lbs cat, Gatsby. The dosage depends on the weight of the cat. If it is 0.03mL every 2 pounds, how much medicine should Gatsby get?

What is 0.225mL?

300
Marinette has 25.89 hours a week of free time this week and spends 80.5 minutes reading. If her reading time remains proportional to her free time, how much time will she spend reading next week if she only has 19.2 hours of free time? Round to the nearest tenth of a minute.

Marinette will read about 59.7 minutes

300

This is the red plush that you questioned Miss Joyce about that was lying on her bed

What is a cow dressed up as a red colored bull?

400

The latin root "graph" means to write/draw. These are 3 words generated from the above root

What are paragraph, telegraph, biography, autography, graphic, photography?

400

This is the participial phrase in the following sentence: Having won the award, Sally went out on Sunset Boulevard to celebrate.


What is "Having won the award"?

400

It takes the Glee club at Magic Prep 18 hours to prepare a set fully. If a set contains 7 songs, how many minutes will it take them to learn 4 songs? Round to the nearest minute.


What is 617 minutes?

400

Doris's mom gave her $98.50 to spend at the mall with her friends. Doris plans to buy 3 pens worth $3.36 each, a $49.99 on the barbie dream house, and $20.49 on a new dress. What percentage of the money did Doris spend? Round to the nearest percent.

Doris spent about 82% of her moms money

400

These are the type of bees that hang around is Miss Joyce's backyard near her garage that arent dangerous.

What are carpenter bees?

500

This is a paragraph (3-4 sentances) using the vocabulary words frenzy, shun, and restore.

(Answers vary)

500

These are the three things that adverbs can modify.

What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?

500

Yasmin is using a sugar cookie recipe with the flour to sugar ratio of 11:6. To make one batch of cookies 2.75 cups of flour are needed. If Yasmin would like to triple the recipe, how much sugar does she need? 


What is 4.5 cups?

500

Megan owns her own waterbottle line. Her design has "Meg" on the side of the bottle. However, there was a malfunction in the design where "Mug" was printed on some of them instead. The head of production notifies her that there was a batch of 200 bottles mislabeled and shipped out. If 15% of the bottles out of 900 sales reported having a malfunctioned bottle, how many more reports can Megan anticipate that have a malfunction?

What is 65 reports?

500

These are Miss Joyce's plans this weekend

What is hangout on Saturday with friends and go to a wedding on Sunday?

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