Transcript Wonderful Word Problems

Wonderful Word
Problems & Brain
Teasers
DIRECTIONS:
Answer the following questions the best way you can. Make
sure you label your answers.
DON’T FORGET TO CHECK YOUR
WORK!!
#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.
#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.
#3
How many points did Wilt Chamberlain
score in his highest scoring game?
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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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?
#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.
#10
How many stitches does a
baseball have?
Hint: A soccer ball has 642 stitches. A
baseball has 534 less stitches then a soccer ball.
#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.
#12
How many muscles do you use to smile?
Hint: You use 43 muscles to frown. It takes you 26
more muscles to frown then smile.
#13
How many people played in the largest game
of musical chairs?
Hint:
playing.
After 6,653 were out, 1,585 people were still
#14
How much time per day does the average
American spend watching television?
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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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 60th
birthday, the roller coaster will be 150 years old.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#24
In what year were blue jeans invented?
Hint: In the year 2010, the blue jean will be 160 years old.
#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.
#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.
#27
In what year were contact lenses
invented?
Hint: Eyeglasses were invented in 1290, which was
597 years before contact lenses.
#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.
#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.
#30
What is the most anyone ever paid for a yo-yo?
Hint: If the buyer paid $16,500, he received $471 in change.
#31
How many home
runs did Willie
Mays hit?
Hint: Babe Ruth hit
714 home runs. That
was 136 less than
Willie Mays.
#32
What year was the modern version of the
pencil invented?
Hint: The pencil celebrated its 200th birthday in 1995.
#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.
#34
How much does your brain weigh?
Hint: Your heart weighs about 9 ounces, which is 39
ounces less than your brain weighs.
#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.
#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.
#37
How many people petted the world’s mostpetted dog a year?
Hint: Josh the Wonder Dog was petted 478,800 times
over 8 years. Each pet was by a different person.
#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!
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#43
What is the furthest recorded flight of a
bird?
Hint: The bird averaged 130 miles per day and flew
for 125 days.
#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!
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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!
#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.
#53
How many
crayons can the
Crayola Company
produce in three
weeks?
Hint: Crayola can produce 5 million crayons every day.
#54
How many earthquakes take place each
week in the world?
Hint: About 49,920 earthquakes occur in the
world each year.
#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.
#56
What was the diameter of the biggest bubblegum 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.
#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.
#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.
#59
How many miles per hour can a
peregrine falcon dive?
Hint: A peregrine falcon can dive 3 miles in a
minute.
#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.