Simple Machines
Franklin Expedition
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Riddles
Math
100

What are the 6 simple machines?

Wheel & axle

Pulley

Lever

Inclined plane

Screw

Wedge 


100

What was the name of the two ships of the Franklin expedition?

50 Bonus points if you can tell me what HMS stands for

HMS Terror

HMS Erebus 

100

What are the 3 brain pockets for writing?

Memory, imagination, and fact

100

What gets wetter and wetter the more that it dries? 

A towel 

100

9X4=?

36

200

You use a force to change the _______________ of an object.

Direction

200

How many years of food supply did the two ships of the expedition have?  

Three years

200
How do you say "hi, how are you?"  in French.

Bonjour, comment ca va?


200

What runs around the whole yard without moving? 

A fence

200

15X9=

Use the Box Method 

60

300

A lever is a board or bar that moves on a _________________.

Fulcrum 


300

There were 3 animals on the ships of the Franklin expedition:  A ___, _____, and ___________.

100 Bonus points for a name of one of the animals.

Dog, cat, and a monkey 

Jacko (Monkey), Neptune (dog), Mrs. Chippy (Cat)

300

What does the word affable mean?

Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to 

300

What goes around the world but stays in a corner?


A stamp 

300

37x28=

Break it break it down

1036

400

Using a screw takes _________ force than pounding a nail.

Less

400

Who became the captain of the Franklin expedition after Sir. John Franklin died? 

Francis Crozier 

400

What book could you use to find triple scoop words?

Thesaurus (Not a type of dinosaur) 

400

Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die.  What am I?

A fire

400

The Titanic had about 36 chandeliers

on board. Each chandelier had 176

crystals on it. How many crystals

were on all of the chandeliers in total?

6336

500

Two movable pulleys and two fixed pulleys have a mechanical advantage of _____________.

Four 

500

Where did the ships get trapped in the ice for two winters? 

Beechey Island 

500

What does la soeur mean?

Sister 

500

I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle.  But I still hold water.  What am I?

A sponge

500

Jonathan and his 14 friends from school went

to the carnival for his birthday. They each

got a bag of popcorn. In each bag, there

were 68 pieces of popcorn and 14 unpopped

kernels. How many pieces of popcorn AND

kernels did they all have together?

1,230 popcorn & kernels