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May 1957 5-a-day

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May 1957

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

Every sheet in May 1957

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st May 1957A bus journey takes 55 minutes. If the bus leaves at 09:20, what time does it arrive?
  2. 2nd May 1957Shape 1 and Shape 2 are two congruent right-angled triangles, each with a base of 8cm, a height of 3cm and a right angle at the bottom-right corner. Shape 2 is rotated 180 degrees about the midpoint of its hypotenuse and joined so its hypotenuse lies exactly along the hypotenuse of Shape 1, with the shared edge erased. What shape is formed, and what are its dimensions?
  3. 3rd May 1957Example 1: code AW shows a grey square. Example 2: code BW shows a black square. Example 3: code AX shows a grey hexagon. What does code BX show?
  4. 4th May 1957Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  5. 5th May 1957A jacket priced at 55 pounds is reduced by 20 percent. What is the new price?
  6. 6th May 1957(UP, DOWN) (HOT, COLD) (WET, ?) Complete the third pair the same way the first two pairs are related.
  7. 7th May 1957In the sentence 'The committee's proposal was met with scepticism by several members', what does 'scepticism' suggest about their reaction?
  8. 8th May 1957A submarine is at a depth of 45 metres below sea level. It rises by 60 metres. What is its new position, relative to sea level?
  9. 9th May 1957A tap fills a bucket at a rate of 2 litres every 3 minutes. How many litres are in the bucket after 9 minutes?
  10. 10th May 1957'The old dog padded softly across the kitchen floor.' What does 'padded' suggest about how the dog moved?
  11. 11th May 1957Three of these words are close in meaning to 'stern' and one is not: strict, severe, lenient, harsh. Identify the odd one out.
  12. 12th May 1957Complete the analogy: HAPPY is to SAD as HOT is to what?
  13. 13th May 1957A cube net has six faces: red, blue, green, yellow, white and black. If red and black end up opposite each other when folded, and blue is opposite white, what is green opposite?
  14. 14th May 1957'Despite living next door for a decade, the two neighbours had exchanged barely a dozen words.' What does this suggest about the relationship between the two neighbours?
  15. 15th May 1957A recipe for 8 people uses 320g of pasta. The amount is scaled up for 20 people, then a quarter of the total pasta is used for a starter. How much pasta, in grams, is used for the starter?
  16. 16th May 1957Choose the correctly spelled word: (a) recieve, (b) receive.
  17. 17th May 1957Choose the correctly punctuated sentence: (a) 'Its raining again' (b) 'It's raining again'.
  18. 18th May 1957FG is to GF as JK is to ? A) JK B) KL C) LK D) JJ E) KJ
  19. 19th May 1957WHISPER is to SHOUT as DRIZZLE is to ?
  20. 20th May 1957BULLET ( ) READ - which word completes BULLET and begins READ?
  21. 21st May 19575 x [ ] = 60 - 15. Find the missing number.
  22. 22nd May 1957Find the letter that completes the word before the bracket and begins the word after the bracket: SPR ( ? ) ARD
  23. 23rd May 1957Mia is taller than Noah. Omar is taller than Mia. Priya is shorter than Noah. Put them in order from tallest to shortest and say who is second tallest.
  24. 24th May 1957(PUSH) (OWL). Exactly one letter can move from the end of the first word to the front of the second word so that both words made are still correctly spelled real words. Which letter moves? A) P B) U C) S D) H E) W
  25. 25th May 1957Which ONE word means both 'able to wait calmly without complaining' and 'a person who is receiving medical treatment'? A) PATIENT B) CALM C) VICTIM D) GENTLE E) CLIENT
  26. 26th May 1957U=8, V=2, W=11, X=6, Y=27. Work out U x V + W. Which letter has this value?
  27. 27th May 195720 - 8 = [ ] + 5. Find the missing number.
  28. 28th May 19579 (3) 12 | 22 (?) 15. Find the missing number, using the same rule as the first pair.
  29. 29th May 1957Nadia is shorter than Omar. Omar is shorter than Priti. Who is the tallest?
  30. 30th May 1957Using the rule that each letter's alphabet position is doubled then 1 is subtracted, the code for BAD is 3-1-7. Which word has the code 5-9-13? A) CEG B) CDF C) DEG D) CEF E) BDG
  31. 31st May 1957Find the next number: 100, 90, 81, 73, 66, ( ? )