Day: August 22, 2014

1. Answer: 1 politician
The first inhabitant will deny being a politician whether he is or not.
Therefore, the second inhabitant is not a politician because the first inhabitant did in fact deny being a politician.
If the third inhabitant is not a politician and is truthful, then the first inhabitant is a politician.
If the third inhabitant is a politician and a liar, then the first inhabitant would not be a politician
2. 49 (There was no year zero)
3. Tomorrow
4. 60 guests
5. The red door
6. Bob, Andy, Chris, Debbie, Evan
7. James was born just before Daylight Saving Time ended. John was born just after, the clock having been set back an hour.
8. 2 minutes
9. 3 cats
10. 49 steps

1. Tardis – Tegan Jovanka; Heart of Gold – Trisha McMillan; Red Dwarf – Dave Lister; Enterprise – Geordie La Forge; Millemium Falcon – Chewbacca

2. All anagrams of animals – DOE, GNU, RAM, APE, WOLF

3. Thirteen

4. Off Newport, Rhode Island

5. Quebec

6. Edward VII

7. True (The note is F)

8. Gollum / Smeagol

9. Red

10. Hatreds, threads, trashed

HARDER:

11. They were the only survivors of the wreck of the Loch Ard, a sailing vessel which was wrecked at Mutton bird Island just off the South West Coast of Victoria, Australia in 1878.

12. 1923

13. Eugene Cernan (but we’d accept Jack Schmidt)

14. 1908 and 1912

15. Highest ever scoring fighter pilot – over 300 enemy planes shot down

16. From the value of “pi” after the decimal point. (Probably a pun on “getting a piece of the pie”)

17. 1938

18. High Noon

19. Rainman

20. A rope – indicates the orientation of the twist on its strands