- You are hungry and need something that will give you the most nutrition possible. You have a large june beetle and a small grasshopper. Which one would give you the most protein?
- You need more iron in your diet. You are given a plate with a hamburger patty on it and another plate with an equal amount of chopped up termites. Which plate should you choose to eat to get the greatest amount of iron?
- You need more calcium in your diet. You could either drink 1 cup of milk or eat a handful of crickets. What should you do?
- Two-part question: (1) In which country do people organize hunts for inago as a cultural activity? (2) What are inago?
Entomological Tales Word Games
Unscramble the following words. All words are found in the first book of The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival.
- oogylontem
- lotpreenal
- trybfetul
- dottiena
- dsnail
- suusatug
- sorropsef
- noisesbos
- nicetertc
- liwgcarn
- mote
- cisten
- naikpd
- torsanear
Dene Low’s Math Problems
From the Series The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival:
- How many people were kidnapped in the first book?
- In the first book, how many kidnapped people did Petronella save?
- Petronella, Jane, and James go to a restaurant. They each pay 10 shillings to the waiter to give to the maitre d’hôtel for their meal. The maitre d’hôtel gives their waiter 5 shillings as change to give back to Petronella, Jane, and James and cover the waiter’s tip. The waiter cannot divide 5 equally by 3, so the waiter gives each 1 shilling and keeps 2 shillings as a tip. If Petronella, Jane, and James each got back 1 shilling and gave 10 shillings, then they really gave 9 shillings (10 – 1 = 9). If you times 9 x 3 = 27. The waiter kept 2 shillings, so 2 + 27 = 29. But they each gave 10 shillings and 3 x 10 = 30. So what happened to the missing shilling?
- Why is it that if you add two different prime numbers, you never get a prime number?
From the Upcoming Series Fairy Dell Elementary:
- If Cedric is 273 years old and Eolin is 562 years old, what is the average number of years they have been alive?
- If a dragon ate 23 villagers and an ogre ate 10, how many villagers were eaten?
- If Hattie ate 1/4 of a pie and Malcolm ate 2/3 of a cake, how much of the pie is left?
Psst! Have you figured out the secret of the motorcycle yet?