There are seven brand new Picture Puzzles
and
thirty “Mixed Bag” Questions
at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
and also NOVEMBER 2013 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD, which has Conspiracy Theories as its theme;
not to mention NOVEMBER 2013 LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS
1. There are five occurrences
2. 11 people
3. Seven of these and six of those
4. 86
5. 13 Red 3 yellow 3 brown 3 blue 4 pink
6. a (see below)
7. 44 Years
8. 47 cards
9. 490 m
10. a. thirty-three cubes b. eighteen cubes
Question 6: There are three types of linkages between the wheels / gears in the diagram:
For toothed wheels or gears meshing, the driver wheel and the driven wheel rotate counter to each other
When linked by a belt, both wheels rotate in the same direction.
When linked by an inverted belt, the rotation of the driven wheel is counter to that of the driver
Applying all that to the diagram in question 6, and indicating clockwise rotation with a “C“, anti clockwise rotation with a “CC“, we get
1. Waste of time
2. Too clever by half
3. Foreign Legion
4. Low fat diets
5. Interior Design
6. To ‘ell with it
7. A maze in grace
1. Cabbage(21), pea(22), Leek(33), carrot(75)
2. (a) Martin; (b) George; (c) Lennox; (d) Michael; (e) Cameron
3. It was the first to be televised in Australia
4. Warren Mitchell
5. Gemstones
6. Sicily
7. 1994
8. 1500 metres
9. Foxy Loxy
10. Groucho Marx
“Next Level”:
11. Duke of York (later King George VI)
12. The first (and only?) married couple to fly together in space
13. Prince William
14. a tennis surface as used in The Australian Open
15. 1905
16. 2003
17. Goal keeper
18. 1929
19. United States and Britain
20. William Wyler (12)
21. San Juan, Puerto Rico
22. Sensis
23. All ships of The First Fleet
24. eleven
25. First to swim the English Channel underwater
26. He discovered that rubella in pregnancy can cause congenital blindness and deafness
27. Elizabeth Arden
28. On the moon
29. Ireland
30. Survived a 5 km fall without a parachute (practically unscathed)
1. Cabbage(21), pea(22), Leek(33), carrot(75)
2. (a) Martin; (b) George; (c) Lennox; (d) Michael; (e) Cameron
3. It was the first to be televised in Australia
4. Warren Mitchell
5. Gemstones
6. Sicily
7. 1994
8. 1500 metres
9. Foxy Loxy
10. Groucho Marx
“Next Level”:
11. Duke of York (later King George VI)
12. The first (and only?) married couple to fly together in space
13. Prince William
14. a tennis surface as used in The Australian Open
15. 1905
16. 2003
17. Goal keeper
18. 1929
19. United States and Britain
20. William Wyler (12)
21. San Juan, Puerto Rico
22. Sensis
23. All ships of The First Fleet
24. eleven
25. First to swim the English Channel underwater
26. He discovered that rubella in pregnancy can cause congenital blindness and deafness
27. Elizabeth Arden
28. On the moon
29. Ireland
30. Survived a 5 km fall without a parachute (practically unscathed)
by Chris Guest
For the 11th consecutive year, the Australian Skeptics are a proud sponsor of the Science Teachers of Victoria’s annual Science Talent Search. 2013 marks the sixty-second year of this important event.
Each year thousands of Victorian school students from lower Primary to Year 12 enter science projects in the categories of experimental research, working models and inventions, computer programs, science photography, games, essays and posters in a state wide competition.
This is a small sample of entries in last year’s Working Models and inventions category. (Click on the picture to enlarge it).
