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2nd Grade Brain Teasers
100

Which is larger, a nickel or a dime?

dime

100

What do you call the letters added to the beginning of a word that changes its meaning?

prefix

100

What continent is the largest?

Asia

100

Give an example of a liquid.

water, milk, juice
100

Spell the word: When you get a break from school

Vacation


100

A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to school. When he returns in the afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why?

Because he cannot reach the buttons higher than five

200

If the short hand is on the 3 and the long hand is on the 12, what time is it?

3:00

200

What is an adjective?

A word that describes a noun

200

"When pigs fly" is an example of?

An idiom

200

Name the 3 states of matter.

Solid, liquid and gas

200

What vocabulary word means to break into small pieces?

crumble

200

Which is faster? Hot or Cold?

Hot is faster, because you can catch a cold.

300

56+27=

83

300

What is the adverb in this sentence?

I quickly ran to school.

quickly

300

What is the largest big cat?

Tiger or Siberian Tiger

300

Give two examples of precipitation. 

Rain, hail, snow or sleet

300

What vocabulary word means smells?

Scents

300

Where does today come before yesterday?

The dictionary

400

How many minutes are in an hour?

60 

400

In nonfiction writing, what does a caption do?

Describes the picture

400

How many bones are in the adult human body?

206 bones

400

Name the habitat you would find a rattlesnake.

Desert

400

Word that means not fair

unfair

400

David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?

David

500

What shape has three sides?

triangle

500

phrase that actually means something different from its literal meaning

An idiom

500

What month is represented by this date  1/31/22

January

500

What is the name of the place where a plant or an animal lives?

Habitat

500

The vocabulary word that is a material that can be made into things

plastic

500

When I take five and add six, I get eleven, but when I take six and add seven, I get one. What am I?

a clock