How the Grinch Stole Christmas Quiz

    The last day of school before Christmas break is typically a difficult day to teach a lesson or give a test. Yet I have trouble letting my kids have a day at school where they do nothing. Mostly this is because if you give 32 adolescents lots of sugar and unstructured time in an enclosed space, tragedy ensues. So I show a movie and not just any movie, but the cartoon version (the only version, in my mind) of Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". While my kids watch this, I give them a group quiz during which they may shout out answers to each other and use calculators and ask me. I don't grade it and I fess up to that if asked. "I will look at them," I reply. "But will it count toward our grade?" "I will not score it, but I will look at them..." ambiguity is my friend.
    Geometry gets a more difficult version. So test your skills. Cue up the movie and see if you can answer these questions. They are in sequential order and are intended to be answered while watching the movie, not after. Best of luck and Merry Christmas!

How the Grinch Stole Christmas Quiz

1. How many sizes too small was the Grinch’s heart?

2. The Grinch lives in what compass direction from Who-ville?

3. How many servers with trays were inside each other?

4. If each server is half the size of the previous and the first one is 3 feet tall, how tall is the smallest one?

5. How many years has the Grinch “put up with Christmas?”

6.  How long is the pole with which the singer would not touch Mr. Grinch?

7. Explain the physical principal that causes Max to fall forward (hint: it has to do with centroid).

8. What did the Grinch use to pull out the mails holding the stockings above the fireplace?

9. What geometric shape are the Christmas ornaments with which he plays pool?

10. How many kids were in the same bed?

11. What did he take the last can of?

12.  Write an inequality to describe the possible age in months of Cindy Lu Who.

13.  If the smallest size of a crumb that a mouse would eat is 2mm wide, write an inequality to describe the possible sizes of crumbs left by Mr. Grinch.

14.  What three words can be used to describe Mr. Grinch?

15.  How many feet up Mt. Crumpit did he travel?

16.  Use the following diagram to discover the altitude of the tip top of Mt. Crumpit.

	(*There is supposed to be a diagram of a right triangle, the base of which measures 8,000ft*)

 

                     

                           8,000 feet

17.  If the Volume of the Grinch’s heart was 4 cm³ before it grew, what would be the new volume of his heart?

18. What was the equation used to describe the Grinch’s new strength?

19.  If the strength of one Grinch is 3 horse power, what was the new strength of the Grinch?

20.  What are your plans for the winter break?