Sample Questions
LEVELS 1 AND 2
1. The pink tower is taller than the red tower but shorter than the green tower. The silver tower
is taller than the green tower. Which tower is the tallest?
(A) pink tower (B) green tower (C) red tower (D) silver tower (E) We don’t know.
2. The picture shows the five houses of five friends and their school. The school is the largest
building in the picture. To go to school, Doris and Ali walk past Leo’s house. Eva walks past
Chole’s house. Which is Eva’s house?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Every time the witch has 3 apples, she turns them into 1 banana. Every time she has 3
bananas, she turns them into 1 apple. What will she end up with if she starts with 4 apples
and 5 bananas?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
LEVELS 3 AND 4
1. How many fish will have their heads pointing towards the ring when we straighten the line?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7
2. On a tall building there are 4 fire escape ladders, as shown. The heights
of 3 ladders are at their tops. What is the height of the shortest ladder?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 20
3. Elena wants to write the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares shown. The arrows always point
from a smaller number to a larger one. She has already written 5 and 7. Which number should
she write instead of the question mark?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8
LEVELS 5 AND 6 ANSWERS
1. There is a square with line segments drawn inside it. The line segments are drawn either from
the vertices or the midpoints of other line segments. We colored 18 of the large square. Which one
is our coloring?
3. Rosa wants to start at the arrow, follow the line, and get out at the other arrow. Which piece,
if placed in the middle, cannot produce this? Note: The piece can be rotated.
3. 10 elves and trolls each were given a token with a different number from 1 to 10 written on
it. They were each asked what number was on their token and all answered with a number from
1 to 10. The sum of the answers was 36. Each troll told a lie and each elf told the truth. What is
the smallest number of trolls there could be in the group?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
LEVELS 7-8 AND 9
1. When the five pieces shown fit together correctly, the result is a rectangle with a calculation
written on it. What is the result of this calculation?
(A) –100 (B) –8 (C) –1 (D) 199
2. The area of the large square is 16 cm2 and the area of each small
square is 1 cm2. What is the total area of the black flower?
(A) 3 cm2 (B) 72cm2 (C) 4 cm2 (D) 112cm2 (E) 6 cm2
3. 2021 colored kangaroos are arranged in a row and are numbered from 1 to 2021. Each
kangaroo is colored red, gray, or blue. Among any three consecutive kangaroos, there are always
kangaroos of all three colors. Bruce guesses the colors of five kangaroos. These are his guesses:
Kangaroo 2 is gray; Kangaroo 20 is blue; Kangaroo 202 is red; Kangaroo 1002 is blue; Kangaroo
2021 is gray. Only one of his guesses is wrong. What is the number of the kangaroo whose color
he guessed incorrectly?
(A) 2 (B) 20 (C) 202 (D) 1002