Contents
Class Help
Student Work
More on History
Other Information
Fun
Talk to Me
E-mail betsynewmark@att.net
Brain Games
Members of the Brain Games Elective and the Quiz Bowl Teams have created quizzes to help prepare for our Quiz Bowl competitions. The students enjoy challenging each other to answer these questions. See if you can rise to their challenges. I've added a few that I created.
Geometry Quiz by Andrew Zonderman
Who wants to be a Mathematician by Elliot Bell
Math Quiz by Ben Edwards
Algebra Motion Problems by Mrs. Newmark (a Who Wants to be a Millionaire type game)
Test Your Super Math Skills by Eddie Smith
Rags to Riches Math by Stephanie Miller (a Who Wants to be a Millionaire type game)
Math Properties by Will Schultz (a Matching Game)
Roman Numerals by Mrs. Newmark
Do you know the most important people of the Millennium by Andrew Zonderman and Will Schultz (a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Game)
The Revolutionary War by Andrew Zonderman (a Jeopardy-like Game)
U.S. Capitals by Elliot Bell
Civil War Battles by Eddie Smith
State Capitals by Andrew Zonderman
Presidential Succession by Will Schultz (Put in order)
The Origin of America by Will Schultz (Put in order)
Elements and their Symbols by Andrew Zonderman
Diseases Hangman by Andrew Zonderman and Will Schultz
Scientific Discoveries by Andrew Zonderman and Will Schultz
Where's That Bone Again? byAndrew Zonderman and Will Schultz
Astronomy by Ben Edwards
Chemistry by Mrs. Newmark (a Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game)
Geology by Mrs. Newmark (a Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game)
The Earth by Mrs. Newmark (a Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game)
Vocabulary by Stephanie Miller (A Concentration-type game)
Vocabulary by Andrew Zonderman (A Matching Activity)
Vocabulary Quiz by Will Schultz
Punctuation by Mrs. Newmark (A Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game)
Spelling by Mrs. Newmark (A Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game)
Word Etymology by Mrs. Newmark (A Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game)
The Totally Hard Quiz of Authors of Classics by Will Schultz and Andrew Zonderman
Battle of the Books by Ben Edwards
Famous Literature by Will Schultz
Literature by Mrs. Newmark (A Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?)
Test of Useless Knowledge for Knowledge Master Contests by Toan Tran-Phu
General Information Knowledge Master Quiz by Stephanie Miller (a Who Wants to be a Millionaire type game)
Mr. Quiz by Julianne Clifton
The Ultimate Test of Life by Ivan Bolden
Assorted Facts and Trivia by Will Schultz (a Jeopardy-like game)
Vocabulary University - Word Puzzles and vocabulary games
Rinkworks - Great collection of activities: trivia tests, jokes, brain food, Madlibs. Check out the one minute summaries of classic books and movies. These are very funny.
Brain Food - All sorts of puzzles for "the brain to gnaw on" such as number puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles
Zone.msn.com - daily trivia games you can play
SchoolHistory.co - British site with lots of quizzes on British and World History
Who Wants to be An American History Guru - Take this online quiz modeled on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Trivia Wars - take trivia competitions in several different categories, registration necessary
Ray's Trivia Page - Links to lots of sites with trivia contests on subjects from Bible to TV trivia, Geography to Music Trivia
Inquizitive - quizzes on all sorts of subjects
Junior Scholastic - Play the News Challenge to quiz yourself on the latest headlines, Find the mystery location in the Map Man Game and cast your votes online in an opinion onlineQuia - Math activities ranging from basic addition to algebra terms and take the Math Journey where you travel the world by answering math problems
Quiz Page - Variety of quizzes on different subjects
Quiz Lab - Quizzes on history, geography, math and other subjects
Fun Trivia - Archive of funny trivia and useless facts; play trivia games, find jokes and play online games; compete in their trivia contests and see how you rank against other competitors
Quizzer - Simulate a Quiz Bowl by uzing the computer to buzz in; geared to the college quiz bowl level
Trivia Machine - Compete in a weekly trivia contest
Geo-Globe - Interactive geography games
Brain Ticklers - Logic, Language and Math Puzzles
Word Play - A wonderful site with links to all sorts of fun sites involving language, e.g. Shakespearean insults, anagrams, slang, word games
Verbivore - Play with the English language
Knowledge Master Open - Sample questions for their Quiz Bowl competition, Sign up for receiving Question of the Day
Vocabulary Syndicate - Word games and puzzles
Oxymorons - Access their list of oxymorons
The Internet African-American History Challenge - Different levels of questions on African American History
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - Contains a huge series of classic puzzles implemented in an elegant way either in Java or JavaScript, as well as their explanation and background.
Ani-grams - animated anagrams made from today's headlines
Cool Words - Check out the Cool Words for this month, gives etymologies
Chosi's Puzzle Site - Has links to puzzles on the web
Riddle of the Sphinx - Has riddles and puzzles to solve
Brain Blitz - Has interactive games such as Tic Tac Toe or Checkers and also trivia games, IQ and personality tests
SAT Question of the Day - Try your hand at these SAT questions
Trivial Pursuit On the Web - Sample Questions from the Millennium Edition
Webring of Quiz Bowls and Trivia - Links to lots of Trivia and Puzzle Pages
Inter-Links Fun and Games on the Web - Links to Jokes, Puzzles, Trivia, Interactive Games, etc.
Brain Candy - Have fun with your brain with mind games, jokes, funny quotes, etc.
Humor Lounge - Lots of jokes perpetrated by students and teachers
Valkhorn.com - jokes, funny answers students write on tests, bumper stickers
Political Systems and Two Cows - Humorous definitions of political and economic systems
LaughNet - Bringing you the lighter side of the Internet
Humor - links to joke pages on the Web
The Book of Cliches - Cliches for every occasion