BMS 6th Grade Practice

MATH: An airplane travelled 1470 miles in 3 1/2 hours. Compute its rate of speed.

The book "Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates" is set in what country?

These books are about what conflict: Shades of Gray: The Guns of Vicksburg; Johnny Reb?

MATH: What is the distance from 450 feet below sea level to 920 feet above sea level?

Name the divisions of the year based on climactic conditions

2002 was a palindromic year. What is the next palindromic year?

What is the state drink of Arkansas.

What is the name for water's gaseous phase?

In what ocean is Melanesia and Micronesia?

What is the name of a substance that contains one kind of atom?

What common prefix is used to describe a four-sided polygon and a four-legged animal?

MATH: Old Skeeter caught a fish that weights 256 ounces. What is the weight in pounds?

One of the books by C.S. Lewis is titled, "The Voyage of the Dawn" what?

What type of rock forms when heat and pressure cook and squeeze sedimentary rock underground?

The skeletons of what marine animals form much of the framework of underwater reefs?

A coronary occurs in what organ?

Name the largest river near the cities of Montreal, Ottawa & Quebec?

The functioning of what paired organs depends on the action of the diaphragm?

What gas is the simplest and lightest fuel?

What common optical instrument consists of a pair of parallel telescopes?

What types of fractions are these: 27/9; 18/5; 221/16

MATH: Express 1/2% as a decimal.

While you sail north through the Bering Strait, what land mass is to your east?

What category of literature includes works published weekly, monthly or quarterly?

What is the highest natural adult male singing voice

What U.S. inventor came up with the single-barreled pistol with a rotating cylinder.

What occurs when wires in an electrical circuit that are not supposed to touch come in contact?

What living but endangered mammals can reach 3.5 meters in height can can weigh six tons?

What is the reciprocal of the fraction x/y

MATH: What are the next three numbers in this sequence: 2, 4, 6, 5, 7, 9, 8....

What type of aircraft achieves lift by means of a rotary wing on top of a fuselage?

Either of the extremities of the Earth's axis of rotation is called what?

What is the subject of the following sentence? In New Orleans, Halloween is redundant.

Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon served during this war in South East Asia

Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny are orphans in what Gertrude Chandler Warner story?

MATH: Calculate 1 divided by 2/3

What word can refer to either a liquid cake mixture or a baseball player?

Averaging only 9 inches of rain per year, what the the driest state in the U.S.?

What in the solar system may have a tail over 60 million miles long?

The drops of moisture that forms on leaves and grass during the night comprise what?

What color absorbs all light?

MATH: Multiply 1/3 of a dozen by a baker's dozen.

What kind of fish are particularly important in the diet of Alaskan bears?

Declaratives are to periods as Interrogatives are to what punctuation mark?

In what story by E.B. White is a mouse born to Park Avenue family?

What type of snake is a sidewinder?

In 1949, the world's most populous nation became a communist country. What country is it?

These belong to what special class of common nouns: outcrop, dropout, supertanker, downtime

What does the suffix mean in these words: Pesticide, Herbicide, Insecticide?

What metric unit is used to measure liquid volume?