Day: September 12, 2015

1. Moonstruck

2. Jimi Hendrix

3. Jim Henson

4. Tigris

5. Economics

6. He was president of the American Confederate States

7. True. There was a 17 month period between the 1932 and the 1934 ceremonies.

8. Lewis Carrol

9. Gymnastics

10. Snake

HARDER:

11. Walk in space

12. Paris

13. Champagne & peach juice

14. An (imaginary) talking mongoose

15. 7151

16. Zorro

17. Carmen

18. Pope Pius II

19. The Austrian Army accidently attacked itself (with 10,000 casualties)

20. Georgia

1. Butcher, baker, candlestick maker

2. parties, pastier, (piaster OR piastre), traipse

3. The Moon

4. Three times (spring, summer and autumn)

5. 1965

6. B. Its scales close

7. The Pope

8. C. Goodbye to meat

9. A shovel

10. Lord Of the Flies

HARDER:

11. 1838

12. Nepal

13. To avoid paying his mobile phone bill

14. He was dead when he crossed the finish line

15. Malacandra

16. Archie

17. Letters written by Prince Charles to UK Government ministers

18. Pope Francis’s Ford Focus

19. His cane (he was blind)

20. No “E”s

1. Round Australia Trial

2. A baby

3. Two Spaniards, one Italian

4. capes, paces, scape, space

5. Tuberculosis

6. liver

7. Painting

8. Austin

9. 1967

10. Carp

HARDER:

11. Shane Gould (the former Olympic Gold medal winning female swimmer)

12. The life-saving reel

13. Ohio

14. Get Smart TV series theme

15. He was a Chinese bush ranger

16. Honduras & El Salvador

17. Speed skating (Munich 1936)

18. The ghost of an American college student who died after a drinking bout

19. Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain

20. Mr Waverley, Leo G Carroll

1. 1st: Jack of clubs 3rd: Ace of Spades 5th: 9 of Hearts 7th: 8 of hearts

2. (In any order:) Edward Peters, Robert Edwards and Peter Roberts

3. 11111

4. 15 days

5. 70 cars

6. a. T [One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, ___]

b. 10

7. (a) butler (b) Clark (c) bridge (d) squash

8. (c) nearly certain for any group of about 25 or more people [see http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/]

9. No: It can be divided by 3, 9, 7 and 49

10. 10 triangles