Mrs. Mahieu’s Challenge Problems
Due: January 8, 2010
Weekly Challenge Questions- January 4, 2010
A. Which sentence is correct?
Your grandparents sends holiday greetings.
Santa might put coal in your stocking.
Christmas is coming and the geese is getting fat.
If I was you, I’d behave for a few days.
The holidays is the best time of the year.
B. Susan wants to buy a holiday present that costs $12.00. Her mother
will pay her 75 cents a night to wash the dinner dishes. How many nights must
Susan work to earn enough money for the present?
14
11
18
16
12
C. Janice has $14. Leilani has $15. They put their money together to buy
a toy that costs $21.14. How much change did they have left after buying the
toy?
$3.29
$6.95
$4.57
$8.23
$7.86
D. Skiers use wax on their skis to
make the bindings work better
prevent dents
reduce friction
polish the ski
make the ski shiny
E. The expression, “She sings like a bird” is an example of
attribution
adjectives
simile
metaphor
personification
F. Which of these Christmas items is matched with the wrong country?
Christmas parades – United States
Pere Noel – France
Plum Pudding – England
Christmas cookies – India
Christmas tree – Germany
G. How many syllables are there in the chorus of a favorite Christmas
song that warns the kids in girl and boyland to behave themselves?
25
28
35
30
15
H. When George Washington made his famous crossing of the Delaware
River, he traveled between what are now the states of:
Delaware and Pennsylvania
New Jersey and Pennsylvania
New York and New Jersey
New Jersey and Delaware
Delaware and Maryland
I. Which unscrambled holiday word comes last in the dictionary?
Hamoren
Goegnge
Tesprnes
Gnscokti
Isotmleet
J. The coming year will include all except
The midterm elections
The Olympics
The Academy Awards
A leap day
A census
