Tuesday: Europe Eureka!
You travel to the Black Forest in Germany (also known as the Forest of
GeomeTREE pronounced Geeh! I’m a tree!
) and meet a magical elf who will only give you the next clue if you can solve
his riddles.
He gives you ten seconds to guess…
1. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6...what are
the next three numbers in order?
2. What shape has eight
sides?
3. How many sides does a
pentagon have?
4. How many corners does a
circle have?
The magical elf gives you your next clue, ‘Go
to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France’.
5. The Eiffel Tower is
painted every 7 years to protect
it from rusting.
How many times will it
need to be painted in 28 years?
6. There are 704 steps to
the second floor of the Eiffel
Tower. You
climb 500 steps before stopping for a break.
How many more steps do you need
to climb?
You get your next clue and travel to London, England and wait outside
the Big Ben clock tower for the Queen.
7. You arrive at 9:00am, the
Queen will not be arriving until 11:00am. How many hours will you have to wait?
8. While
you wait you hear Big Ben’s quarter bells chime. They chime every fifteen minutes. How many times would you hear them in one hour?
9. At 11:21am the Queen arrives.
She is with 25 guards
and 25 servants. How many people
arrive with the Queen?
10. How many tens are in fifty?
This is getting good mrs carryer
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