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Brain Teaser
100

If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:15 pm and arrived 35 minutes late, it arrived at... ?

What is 3:50pm?

100

In which country were the Olympic Games born?

Greece

100

What is the past tense for “swim”?

Swam

100

Where is the smallest bone in the human body?

Ear

100

Which is the world’s largest ocean?

Pacific

100

What has keys but cannot open a door?

A piano (or a keyboard)

200

How many centimeters are in 1 meter?

100

200

Which country is the largest in the world by land size?

Russia

200

What word in the following sentence needs a punctuation mark in order to make it grammatically correct? “Its going to be sad if our team loses the football game tonight.”

its

200

Which planet is closest to the sun?

Mercury (マーキュリー )

200

What is the largest country by population?

China

200

What has to be broken before you can use it?

An egg

300

The number of hours in 3 days

72

300

Japan is a country made up of over 6,800 islands, with four main islands consisting of:

Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku

300

Name all the vowels.

A, E, I, O, U

300

What natural resource makes up most of Japan’s energy: oil, coal, or water?

Oil (Japan imports most of its energy)

300

True or False: The country of Madagascar is an island located in the Pacific Ocean.

False

300

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Footsteps. 

400

What is the formular to the area of a square/rectangle? 

A = L x W

400

Name 3 countries in Africa 

Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda etc.

400

Give a synonym for the word "job" 

Work, occupation, profession, career

400

What is the powerhouse of the cell?

Mitochondria (ミトコンドリア)

400

Name the top 3 most spoken languages in the world

1. English (1.5 billion speakers)

2. Mandarin Chinese (1.2 billion speakers) 

3. Hindi (600 million speakers) 

400

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A candle.

500

Sam has 48 apples and divides them between 4 friends, how many apples does each friend get?

12

500

Mount Everest is on the border of which two countries? 

China (Tibet) and Nepal 

500

What are the 6 components of a Narrative?

characters, setting, conflict, climax, solution, theme

500

What are the 3 forms of matter

Gas solid liquid

500

Name one invention from the 20th century that changed daily life.

Airplane, television, internet, cell phone, computer, antibiotics, etc.

500

What goes up but never comes down?

Your age.