Car Trip Tips

Get smarter, on your car trips! Actually, the real purpose of bringing along Brain Quest is simply to make the miles fly by. Still, you can learn a lot when you quiz your kids with some of the 1500 questions each Brain Quest holds...

• Read more about Brain Quest.

• See also: Activity Kits for Car Trips - especially the creative hits by Klutz

• How to Survive long car trips with kids

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Brain Quest: whazzat?

Brain Quest is basically a set of questions and answers in a nice portable package: great for quizes on long car trips, though teachers might use it in the classroom, too.

Each box of Brain Quest-- for example, Brain Quest Grade Four-- has two decks of cards, held together at the bottom with a "grommet" (a little metal thingie). One side of each card has questions; the answers are on the next card.

The best Brain Quests for car trips are the grade-level card sets, which have hundreds of general-knowledge type questions appropriate for a certain age/grade.

For more educational purposes, in the class or at home, there are also Brain Quests such as: 1st Grade Math, 2nd Grade Reading, etc.

Brain Quest also has some choices for younger kids: My First Brain Quest - word-building, for ages 2 to 3; Brain Quest Bathtime - poems, questions, riddles, from a little duck named Gus; and more.

Brain Quest claims to fame:

• 23.7 Million sold (mid-2005)
• named by "Sesame Street Magazine" as one of the Top 9 Products for kids
• named one of the 50 best values in the USA, by "Money" magazine

Getting Brain Quest:

See a full list of Brain Quest products. Price for most is $10.95 at time of writing (check for updates.)

Click on any choice, and you'll be taken to a list of sites for online purchasing (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.)

Or do some comparison shopping for several titles of -- order Brain Quest