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2016
Time Allowed: 150 minutes

Tasks T1 – T8 carry 3 points each

T1. Soccer Game

The Beaver Rangers have been playing a soccer game against the Forest
Raiders.
The following list shows the names of the players that scored a goal:

minute 1: Anna
minute 10: Dick
minute 35: Bernard
minute 47: Smithy
minute 73: Backy
minute 89: Richard

The game was very exciting, no team ever scored twice in a row.

Question / Challenge:
What was the final standing of the game?

A) 6-0 B) 5-1 C) 4-2 D) 3-3

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T2. Bebras Painting

The little Beavers can change any painting using a magic roller that works as
follows: the roller replaces the current shape with the next shape, as shown by
the arrows in the figure.

When beaver Ben uses the magic roller over the original painting on the left,
he gets the painting on the right.

Question / Challenge
What will the painting below look like after applying the magic roller?

A) B)

C) D)

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T3. Beach Towel Code

Albert, the father of Beatrix and Richard, is a guard on the beach. Beatrix and
Richard are playing with other children on the beach.

To inform Beatrix and Richard, Albert uses the flagpole and the following
flags.

Flag on top:

If the flag is blue, the message is for Beatrix

If the flag is red, the message is for Richard

If the flag is blue-red the message is for Beatrix

and Richard

The middle flag:

Meal available

Drink available

The bottom flag:

Hurry

No need to hurry

Question / Challenge
What does the following flags on the pole mean?

A) Richard there is a meal for you, hurry!

B) Beatrix there is a meal for you, hurry!
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C) Beatrixx and Rich

hard there is a drink ffor you, no
o need to hurry
h
D) Richarrd there is a drink fo
or you, no need
n to hu
urry
T4. Ecologgy Class
Beaveer Tom got a lot of sweets fro om his
granddparents. He
H wants to t put themm into
the bo
ox, which is 27 unitss high. Wh hen he
puts all
a of his sw o the box, the lid
weets into
woulddn't close.

Question / Challeng
ge
Whicch packagee of sweetss should beaver put out of thee box, so hee could clo
ose
the lid and keep
p as many
y sweets ass possible:

alva (7)
A) ha B) chocolate (3)
C) no
oga (5) D) Jelly
y Bellies (44)

T5. Matchhing Pieces

The beeavers havve a new puzzle
p gam
me. The piieces have tongues or
o notches on
their sides.
s Piecces with matching
m t
tongue an
nd notch can
c be putt together to
form a pair.

Question / Challeng
ge
How many pairs can you
u make at the
t same tiime?

A) 0 B) 1 C)
C 2 D) 3
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T6. Broken Window

Six children were playing in the yard.

One of them threw a ball and broke Mr. Beaverdam's window.

When Mr. Beaverdam came to the broken window he was only able to see the
back of the child running away. He only remembers that the culprit had red
shirt and short dark hair.
Question / Challenge
Who broke the window?

A) Jane B) Dan C) John D) Tom

T7. Shelf Sort

Beatrix is trying to rearrange her shelf.

She has made two rules:

1. No two rectangular items are to sit next to each other.

2. Circular items must not sit next to rectangular items.

Question / Challenge
Which one of these shelves would show Beatrix has followed her rules
correctly?
A) B)

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C) D)

T8. Dancing Beavers

Johny learns a new dance.

He starts his dance in this position:

In the dance he then makes the following consecutive moves:

Bend both knees
Lift both hands
Tilt his head to a side
Straighten his knees
Tilt his head to the other side
Puts his hands down
Straighten his head

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Question / Challenge
In which one of these positions has Johny been during the dance?

A) A B) B C) C D) D

Tasks T9 – T16 carry 4 points each

T9. Ordered jersey numbers

Two teams of 15 players are shown below, with numbers printed on their
jerseys. The players of the first team are ordered by jersey number. The
players of the second team are ordered by player height.

Team 1’s jersey numbers are: 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26

Team 2’s jersey numbers are: 8, 28, 12, 3, 24, 16, 23, 19, 14, 2, 11, 29, 27, 6, 13

Question / Challenge
How many jersey numbers are used in team 1 that are also used in team 2?

A) 1 jersey number B) 2 jersey numbers

C) 3 jersey numbers D) 4 jersey numbers

T10. Many trails

Cleveria exploring paths from village A and to village E. Cycle paths are one-
way-only.

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Question / Challenge
How many different trails she can choose?

A) 2 B) 4 C) 5 D) 7

T11. Encoding Letters

For her birthday beaver Barbara has been given two stamps. With the first one she
can produce a little flower, with the second one a little sun. Being a clever Beaver
girl she thinks of a way to write her own name with these two stamps by
encoding letters with a sequence of flowers and suns as follows:

Letter B A R E Y
Code

The name “Barbara” would be encoded as:

Question / Challenge

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She then goes on to also write down the name of her friend Abby. What is the
sun-flower-code for the name of her friend Abby ?

A)

B)

C)

D)

T12. Mazes

A robotic car uses a simple rule to drive through a maze: it

will turn right whenever it can. The picture on the right
gives you an example on how the robot would drive
through a maze.

Question / Challenge
Using this method, in how many of the following mazes will the car reach
the red dot?

A) B) C) D)

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4

T13. Ladybugs
There is a ladybug in some squares of the grid below. We say that two
squares are neighbours if they share a side or corner. This means that each
square has up to 8 neighbours.

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Question / Challenge
Which of the squares has the most neighbouring ladybugs?

A) A B) B C) C D) D

T14. Tunnel
Three beaver friends are digging a tunnel. Each beaver specializes in a
certain type of tunnel: a small passageway, a long passageway or a high
room.

Anna: Benjamin: Carla:

Question / Challenge
The beavers take turns in digging and repeat until they are finished. They
started from the left. In which order did they dig tunnel below?

A) Carla – Benjamin – Anna B) Anna – Benjamin – Carla

C) Benjamin – Carla – Anna D) Anna – Carla – Benjamin

T15. Crossing the River

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Fatheer beaver and

a his tw
wo cubs waant to crosss the creeek withoutt getting wwet.
They use a rowwboat that can
c carry up u to 100 kg.
k
Fatheer beaver weighs
w 1000 kg; each cub weigh hs 50 kg. Because
B they cannot all
fit in the boat they
t decidde to take sseveral trips across. In each crrossing theere
must be at leastt one beavver in the b
boat.

Question / Challeng ge
How many cro ossings mu wboat make before all the beeavers are on
ust the row
the otther side of
o the creek
k?

A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6
T16. Pixell Circle
Taneechka draw w a circle in
i an imag ge editor an
nd zoomed
d
into it. She noticed th he circle consistedd of smalll
squaares, i.e., piixels.

Question / Challengge
Whicch block off 9 pixels iss not a part of the piccture abov
ve?

A
A) B
B) C
C) D
D)

Tassks T17 – T24

T carry 5 points eaach

T17. Let your

y heart talk
The service
s rob
bot is able to recogniize four ba
asic emotio
ons: neutraal, disgusteed,
surprrised and happy.
h

When n the roboot talks to the

t beaverr, it
obserrves the beeavers facee and decid
des
what to say next
n depen nding on the
beaveer's facial expressio on. These are
the fo xpressions:
our possiblle facial ex
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Below we can see a little conversation between the robot and the beaver, but
red dots have replaced the beaver facial
expression.

Question / Challenge
What is the most plausible sequence of facial
expressions of the beaver for this conversation ? Each face can be used only
once.

A) neutral, disgusted, surprised, happy

B) disgusted, happy, neutral, surprised
C) surprised, disgusted, happy, neutral
D) happy, neutral, surprised, disgusted

T18. Tricky Trampolines

Beatrix and Bruce are at the amusement park, where there are 2 trampolines.
One is square-shaped and the other is circle-shaped.

Beatrix makes a fun plan.

1. Both beavers must jump in this sequence:

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2. When using the circle-shaped trampoline, Beatrix, who is wearing red, starts
first.
3. When using the square-shaped trampoline (after they used the circle-shaped
one), Bruce, who is wearing blue, starts first.
4. Both beavers wait for their turn on each of the trampolines.

Question / Challenge
In what order will the beavers come off the square-shaped trampoline?

A) B)

We cannot tell. Depends on who starts first.

C) D)

T19. Treasure map

Beaver Ana has a treasure map. She knows that the treasure position is at

(7|7). Ana also knows that the well is at (7|5) and the fireplace

is at (3|3). Unfortunately, Ana forgot where the reference point is

and how to read the map (from the left side or from the right side; from top
or bottom).

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Question / Challenge
Under which image is the treasure?

A) B)

C) D)

T20. Food Festival

The beavers are preparing for the Food Festival, and they would like to bake
the Crunchy Cake; but their cook is on holiday. Kate promised to make a
cake but all she knows is that it is important to add the five essential
ingredients in the right order.

When she gets to the garden, she realizes that with every ingredient there is a
piece of paper showing the picture of the ingredient to be added next. There
is only one ingredient with no paper next to it.

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The garden looks like this:

Question / Challenge
Which ingredient should be added first?

A) B) C) D)

T21. Beaver Hotel

Beaver Billal went to Beaver’s Resort with his friends for holidays. They
stayed at different houses. The distance between two nearby houses is 100
meters. Billal's place is house 1, and his friends stay at house 3, house 5 and
house 7. One night Billal visited his friends to discuss some plans for the next
day. We know that he only traveled on the main road and that because of
some works, he did not travel between houses 6 and 7.

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Question / Challenge
How many meters Billal walked in the night, when visiting his friends,
assuming he wanted to be as quick as possible?

A) 700 meters B) 900 meters

C) 1000 meters D) 1400 meters

T22. The Characters

One day Little Red Riding Hood meets the Wolf and says: “Yesterday, I was
lying all day!”

The Wolf replies: “Me too!”

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We know that Little Red Riding Hood tells only lies on every Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. And the Wolf is lying exactly on Thursdays,
Fridays and Saturdays. They both are telling the truth on the other days.

Question / Challenge
Which day did they meet?

A) Sunday B) Monday C) Thursday D) Saturday

T23. Distance Measures

Betaro Beaver has discovered five types of new magic potions with the
following effects:
 one makes ears longer;
 another makes teeth longer;

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 anoth her makes whiskers curly;

 anoth her turns the nose white;
 the laast one turrns eyes wh
hite.

Betaro put each maggic potion into a separate beak ker. There is an addittional beak
ker
containingg pure waater, so theere are six
x beakers with
w labelss A to F. However,
H he
forgot to record
r whiich beakerr contains wwhich maggic potion!!

Then, he set up thee following

g experim
ments to id
dentify thee magic po
otion in eaach
beaker.

 Exp
periment 1: If he tak kes the con
ntent of beeakers A, B and C to
ogether, th
hen
the effects aree shown in
n Figure 1.

 Exp
periment 2: 2 If he tak
kes the con
ntent of beeakers A, D and E to
ogether, th
hen
the effects aree shown in
n Figure 2.

 Exp
periment 3: 3 If he tak
kes the con
ntent of beeakers C, D and F to
ogether, th
hen
the effects aree shown in
n Figure 3.

Question / Challeng
ge
Whicch one of th
he beakerss contains p
pure water?

A) A B) B C) C D) D

et Messagees
T24. Secre
Agen
nts Boris an
nd Bertha communic
c cate using secret messsages.
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Boris wants to send Bertha the secret message:

MEETBILLYBEAVERAT6

He writes each character in a 4 column grid from left to right and row by row
starting from the top. He puts an X in any unused spaces. The result is shown
below.

Then he creates the secret message by reading the characters from top to
bottom and column by column starting from the left:

MBYVTEIBE6ELERXTLAAX

Bertha then uses the same method to reply to Boris. The secret message she
sends him is:

OIERKLTEILH!WBEX

Question / Challenge
What message does Bertha send back?

A) OKWHERETOMEET! B) OKIWILLBETHERE!
C) WILLYOUBETHERETOO? D) OKIWILLMEETHIM!

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