“Mixed Bag” Questions August 2015 – Answers

1. They all pop

2. 25th century

3. Laurence Olivier

4. Nelson Mandela

5. I, Claudius

6. The Jordonaires

7. Rome

8. Labour, Conservative, Liberal-Democrats

9. 1968

10. French, German, Italian, Romansch

HARDER:

11. Published a September 31 issue

12. W.C. Fields

13. Teflon

14. The Twelve Apostles

15. He shorted out Glasgow’s electricity supply

16. Movies

17. Uranus

18. He was a Pope and was dead. The succeeding pope had him exhumed in order to put him on trial.

19. All attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria

20. Her body was grossly swollen due to gout

August 2015 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions

1. a = 44 , b = 19 , c = 10,

2. a. No b. Yes c. No d. Yes

3. a. fruit; b. bread; c. aisle 4

4. U, E, N

5. The pear is grown inside the bottle

6. Z – Set 1 contains letters composed entirely of straight lines

7. Option C. There is as much water in the milk/water mixture as milk in the water/milk mixture.

8. Looks like 88.

9. 9 metres [As one of two equal length diagonals of the rectangle, the dark blue line has length equal to the radius of the circle, which is (6 + 3) = 9 m]

10. 2.5 km [If Bill and Fred are 2km apart and approach each other at 10 km/hr each, their closing speed is 20 km / hr. They therefore meet in 0.1 hours (6 minutes). How far can Fido run in 0.1 hr at 25 km/hr? Answer: 2.5 km]