1. Wonderful Word Problems & Brain Teasers

2. DIRECTIONS: Answer the following questions the best way you can. Make sure you label your answers. DON’T FORGET TO CHECK YOUR WORK!!

3. #1 How high can insects fly? Hint: The tallest living tree, the Mendocino Tree, is 370 feet tall. Insects can fly 3630 feet higher then the Mendocino Tree.

4. #2 How much did the worlds largest squash weigh? Hint: Bart weighs 230 pounds. Stephanie weighs 190 pounds. Jenna weighs 130 pounds. Angela weighs 142 pounds. Ron weighs 245 pounds. They all carved a pumpkin that weighs 25 pounds. Those 5 people plus the pumpkin they carved weigh the same amount as the largest squash.

5. #3 Hint: Mark McGuire hit 70 home runs in one season, the most ever. Wilt scored 30 more points then the number of home runs Mr. McGuire hit. How many points did Wilt Chamberlain score in his highest scoring game?

6. #4 How long is the worlds largest gum wrapper chain? Hint: A football field is 300 feet long. The length of this chain is 122 football fields.

7. #5 The worlds largest river is the Nile. How long is the Nile? Hint: The Amazon River is the worlds second longest river. It is 3894 miles long. The Nile is 266 miles longer then the Amazon.

8. #6 How many people can the largest plane carry? Hint: If the plane was full and had a crew of 15 people and 144 people with window seats, then there were 407 passengers who did not get window seats.

9. #7 How long is the tunnel a mole can dig in one night? Hint: A mole digs 47 feet and takes a break. Then it digs 135 feet and takes another break. Then it digs 38 feet and takes a break. Finally it digs 80 feet and is done for the night.

10. #8 There are 480,000 Native Americans living in four states. Oklahoma is the state in which the most Native Americans live. How many Native Americans live in Oklahoma? Hint: There are 65,000 Native Americans living in Texas, 80,000 in North Carolina, and 85,000 in Alaska. How many live in Oklahoma?

11. #9 How many square miles are there in Texas’s Brewster County? Hint: Medina County is 425 square miles. Brewster county is 14 times larger then Medina County.

12. #10 Hint: A soccer ball has 642 stitches. A baseball has 534 less stitches then a soccer ball. How many stitches does a baseball have?

13. #11 The 1996 Super Bowl between Dallas and Pittsburgh has the highest ratings in television history. How many people watched the game? Hint: 76 million people watching the game were cheering for Dallas, then 62 million people were cheering for Pittsburgh.

14. #12 Hint: You use 43 muscles to frown. It takes you 26 more muscles to frown then smile. How many muscles do you use to smile?

15. #13 How many people played in the largest game of musical chairs? Hint: After 6,653 were out, 1,585 people were still playing.

16. #14 Hint: Jack spends 1 hour, 39 minutes watching television every day. Jack spends 2 hours and 9 minutes less then the average American watching television. How much time per day does the average American spend watching television?

17. #15 How long is the longest snake ever discovered? Hint: The Reticulated Python is 10.1 meters long. The Green Anaconda, the longest snake, is 7.9 meters longer then that.

18. #16 How long was the largest salami? Hint: Tara’s house is 48 feet long, her bike is 3 feet long and she is 5 feet, nine inches tall. Combined, Tara, her house, and her bike are still 12 feet shorter than the largest salami.

19. #17 How many videos does the average family rent in a year? Hint: Last year, Manny rented 63 videos, Nancy rented 55 videos and Chris rented 80 videos. Together they rented 160 more videos then the average family rents in a year.

20. #18 How much money did the movie Aladdin make? Hint: Toy Story made $354 million. Lion King made $772 million. Together they made $647 million more than Aladdin.

21. #19 In what year was the Internet invented? Hint: Sabrina was born in 1992. When she turns 27, the Internet will be 50 years old.

22. #20 The Cyclone was the first roller coaster ever built in the United States. In what year was it built? Hint: Dave was born in 1974. When he celebrates his 60 th birthday, the roller coaster will be 150 years old.

23. #21 Benjamin Franklin was the oldest man to sign the Declaration of Independence. How old was he when he signed it? Hint: Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1751 he was 45 years old.

24. #22 How many stars were on the American Flag in 1851? Hint: Between 1851 and 1900, 14 stars were added. There have been 5 stars added since 1900.

25. #23 How many presidents were born in Ohio? Hint: There have been 43 presidents. 8 presidents were born in Virginia, and 29 were not born in Ohio or Virginia.

26. #24 In what year were blue jeans invented? Hint: In the year 2010, the blue jean will be 160 years old.

27. #25 In Japan, Tokyo is the city with the most people. How many people live in Tokyo? Hint: California has a population of 32 million people. That is 5 million more people than the number that live in Tokyo.

28. #26 What is the most weight ever lost by one person? Hint: The person now weighs 476 pounds. They used to weigh 1,400 pounds.

29. #27 In what year were contact lenses invented? Hint: Eyeglasses were invented in 1290, which was 597 years before contact lenses.

30. #28 At what age did the world’s oldest person die? Hint: Joe is 35, Colleen is 42, Claire is 15 and Doug is 7. All of these ages combined is still 23 years younger than the oldest person.

31. #29 Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest President. How old was he when he became president? Hint: Ronald Reagan was our oldest president. He was 69 when elected. He was 27 years older then Roosevelt when he was elected.

32. #30 What is the most anyone ever paid for a yo-yo? Hint: If the buyer paid $16,500, he received $471 in change.

33. #31 How many home runs did Willie Mays hit? Hint: Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs. That was 136 less than Willie Mays.

34. #32 What year was the modern version of the pencil invented? Hint: The pencil celebrated its 200 th birthday in 1995.

35. #33 How fast do pigeons fly? Hint: Jan was driving her car 67 miles per hour which is 22 miles faster than most pigeons fly.

36. #34 How much does your brain weigh? Hint: Your heart weighs about 9 ounces, which is 39 ounces less than your brain weighs.

37. #35 How long is a gorilla expected to live? Hint: A queen termite is expected to live 50 years. That is 5 times longer than a gorilla.

38. #36 How many feet long were the tentacles on the biggest jellyfish? Hint: A bus is 20 feet long. The longest jellyfish’s tentacles were 6 times that length.

39. #37 How many people petted the world’s most- petted dog a year? Hint: Josh the Wonder Dog was petted 478,800 times over 8 years. Each pet was by a different person.

40. #38 The most expensive painting ever sold is THE PORTRAIT OF DR. GACHET. How much did it sell for? Hint: If someone bought the painting with only $10,000 dollar bills, they would need 7500 of them!

41. #39 How thick is the ice in Antarctica? Hint: If you chiseled through the ice in Antarctica at a rate of 5 feet per hour, it would take you 1300 hours to reach the bottom of the ice.

42. #40 How many squares of toilet paper does the average roll contain? Hint: If each person used 111 squares, 3 people could use one roll.

43. #41 How many active volcanoes are there in the world? Hint: A scientist is planning to see all the active volcanoes in the world. He needs to visits 60 volcanoes a year for the next 25 years.

44. #42 How much did the largest dinosaur skull weigh? Hint: Rebecca weighs 88 pounds. The largest dinosaur skull weighed 50 times more than what Rebecca weighs.

45. #43 What is the furthest recorded flight of a bird? Hint: The bird averaged 130 miles per day and flew for 125 days.

46. #44 How many calories does the average person take in at Thanksgiving dinner? Hint: The day after Thanksgiving, John began a workout that burns 392 calories each day. It took him 5 days to burn off all the calories he consumed on Thanksgiving!

47. #45 The blue whale can weigh more than any other animal. How much can a blue whale weigh? Hint: It would take 3250 children weighing 80 pounds each to equal the weight of a large blue whale.

48. #46 How many pounds of food will you eat in your lifetime? Hint: If you live to be 75 years olds, you would eat 8000 pounds a year.

49. #47 How many miles long is the Great Wall of China? Hint: If you walked 20 miles a day, it would take you 225 days to walk the length of the Great Wall of China.

50. #48 The most miles ever driven by one car was by a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle. How many miles did the car travel. Hint: The distance around the equator is 24,902 miles. If this car drove around the equator 64 times, it would still be 6272 miles shorter then the distance that 1963 Beetle drove.

51. #49 The world’s highest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela. How high is Angel Falls? Hint: A branch fell from the top of the waterfall at a speed of 64 feet per second. It took 50 seconds to reach the bottom.

52. #50 How many stairs are there in the Empire State Building? Hint: Teresa climbed to the top of the Empire State Building at a rate of 62 stairs per minute. It took her 30 minutes to reach the top.

53. #51 How many gallons was the largest milkshake? Hint: A total of 1,500 people gathered and each drank 2 gallons of the shake. When they were finished drinking, there were still 1333 gallons of milkshake left!

54. #52 How long is the ravine in the Grand Canyon? Hint: Jackie rode her horse at a speed of 14 miles per hour. She began at one end of the Grand Canyon and rode for 15 hours. At that point, she was just 7 miles from the other side of the ravine.

55. #53 How many crayons can the Crayola Company produce in three weeks? Hint: Crayola can produce 5 million crayons every day.

56. #54 How many earthquakes take place each week in the world? Hint: About 49,920 earthquakes occur in the world each year.

57. #55 How many plays did Lope de Vega write? Hint: If you wrote 5 plays every month, it would take you 30 years to write the same number that de Vega wrote.

58. #56 What was the diameter of the biggest bubble- gum bubble? Hint: The radius of the biggest bubble-gum bubble was equal to (5.25x2) inches. The radius of a circle is half the length of the diameter.

59. #57 How often does the average American move in a lifetime? Hint: Justine lived to be 88 years old and moved once every 2 years. In total, she moved four times as many times as the average American.

60. #58 How many peanuts does it take to make a 12 ounce jar of peanut butter? Hint: It takes 1096 peanuts to make a 24 ounce jar of peanut butter.

61. #59 How many miles per hour can a peregrine falcon dive? Hint: A peregrine falcon can dive 3 miles in a minute.

62. #60 What is the greatest number of piercings anyone has ever had? Hint: If one piercing cost $15, It would have cost $2055 to have this many piercings.