BRAIN TEASERS

TIME LINE

1. David is making time line for the class.

He has word cards to arrange from the shortest period of time to the longest period. Help David, place
them correctly:

- There are 12 months in a year.

- A minute comes after the second.
- A second is the shortest period of time.
- A century is 100 years.
- A week has 7 days.
- An hour is longer than a minute.
- A decade is 10 years.
- A millenium is a thousand years.
- A day has 24 hours.

S______________, ______________, ______________, ______________, __________________

_______________, ______________, ______________, ______________, __________________

GET BACK IN ORDER

2. Five boys and five girls were waiting in line for tickets for a concert. A famous singer come by and they all
followed him to get his autograph.
Karen's dad saved their places. Help them to get back in order:

- Dan was third in line.

- Pam was just ahead of Dan.
- Karen was in front of her Dad.
- There were six people ahead of Russell.
- Ann was fifth.
- Shawn was before Ann.
- Chris was before Carol, who was ninth.
- Frank was in from of Pam.
- Jim was between Ann and Russell.

1. __________________ 6.___________________
2. __________________ 7.___________________
3. __________________ 8.___________________
4. __________________ 9.___________________
5. __________________ 10.__________________
11. __________________

DRINKS ALL AROUND

3. Mr. and Mrs. Lee met Mr. and Mrs. Brown in a restaurant. They were all thirsty. A waiter approached their
table.
One man said, "I only drink lemonade"
 One woman asked the other woman, "Do you want cream in your coffee?"
Mrs. Lee said "Bob and I don't like beer"
One of the Browns said, "I want lemonade"
Then the waiter brought, 1 beer, 1 cup of coffee, 1 cup of tea and a lemonade.

What did each person want to drink?

Mr. Lee wanted __________________
Mrs. Lee wanted __________________
Mr. Brown wanted __________________
Mrs. Brown wanted __________________

NUMBER PLACE

4. Barry misplaced his Social Security Number, but he knows that there were 9 digits. He also knows that
all the numbers from 1 to 9 were in his number.
Help him place them in the correct order:

- The middle number is 6.

- The 9 comes before the 3.
- Two is next to the last number.
- Five is just before the middle number.
- 1 is the final digit.
- 4 comes before the 9 and is the first digit.
- 8 comes after the middle number.
- 7 is just before the 2.

Social Security Number:___________________________________________

THE 10 LARGEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.

5. A cartographer drew outlines of the 10 largest countries in the world. Someone opened the window and
his outlines have been blown all around the room. Follow these instructions to place the papers in order of
the size of the country.

- Australia has 5 countries before it.

- Sudan is between Argentine and Argelia, which is the tenth.
- The Soviet Union is the largest country.
- India is six countries after the Soviet Union.
- China is third, followed by the United States.
- Canada is between the Soviet Union and China.
- There are 4 countries larger than Brazil.

1. __________________ 6.___________________
2. __________________ 7.___________________
3. __________________ 8.___________________
4. __________________ 9.___________________
5. __________________ 10.__________________