1. Alex is 10, Bill is 5, Charlie is 9
2. Losing
(eg start with $1000. It will decrease to $900, then increase to $990)
3. $8.70
4. 15
5. 150 km
6. Shape d. Shapes a, b and c are rotations of each other; d is a non-superimposable mirror image.
7. 500 litres (actually about 524)
8. 4 cubes
9. 8
10. 24 minutes
1. Rockets, aerospace etc
2. a) 2 Weeks in a fortnight
b) 4 Years in an Olympiad
c) 5 lines in a limerick
d) 13 Buns in a bakers dozen
3. Svetlana
4. Piano
5. Carnival, Rio De Janeiro
6. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
7. A. 1897
8. The brain
9. B. Gentle way
10. False: (there was one of 26 days and one of 5 days)
HARDER:
11. 1907
12. Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation
13. It’s the old postal address of the Eau-de-Cologne factory in the German town of Cologne (Koln) when under French occupation
14. Light Rum, Southern Comfort. Triple Sec, Lemon juice, Dash Bitters
15. All have been official events in at least one Olympics
16. 1959
17. Reagan, Goneril, Cordelia
18. Pete Conrad
19. Beeswax
20. Three months
1. David Duchovny / The X Files; Buddy Ebsen / The Beverley Hillbillies; Vivian Vance / I Love Lucy
2. Jones, Brown, Williams, Taylor
3. Telescopes
4. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
5. B. DeHavilland Comet
6.Michigan
7. Sissy Spacek
8. Norwegian
9. 1971
10. Tourism
HARDER:
11. Trampolining, Tai-Kwon-Do, Triathlon
12. Caramel colour
13. King Zog, 1946, deposed by the communist regime
14. Jupiter
15. The Boston Strangler
16. Caraway
17. Raymond Chandler
18. The senior, as in longest-serving State Governor
19. (a) Jack Kelly, James Garner, Roger Moore
(b) Warner Brothers
(c) Mel Gibson
20. Appears in: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2
Mentioned in: Henry V
1. Athletics and Tennis
2. A. Red-back
3. Because France pulled out of NATO
4. South Australia
5. Architecture
6. Nepal
7. Arlo Guthrie
8. Lolita
9. A house
10. Juan Antonio Samaranch
HARDER:
11. 20
12. 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Hercule Poirot
13. New York, Venice, Bilbao, Berlin and Abu Dhabi
14. 5
15. (a)120 millimetres (b)15 millimetres
16. 1936, Hobart Zoo (Tasmania)
17. 8
18. 621
19. 24
20. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley
1. Ian McShane / Lovejoy; George Cole / Minder; Arthur Lowe / Dad’s Army
2. a. 8 Tentacles on an Octopus
b. 12 Numbers on a Clock Face
c. 12 Eggs in a Dozen
d. 6 Wives of Henry the Eighth
e. 2 Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
3. Development of penicillin
4. Doris Day
5. Arthur Calwell
6. Kennedy
7. New South Wales
8. (Johnny) Diesel
9. Perth, Western Australia
10. Tin Tin
HARDER:
11. Having three (or more) nipples
12. There are two possible answers: Cardinal Wolsey commissioned it; King Henry VIII wanted to use it after Wolsey was disgraced, but died before his tomb was completed.
13. The Northern Territory (next is June 24 2016)
14. Romanadvoratrelundar
15. Canberra
16. Prince Charles Edward or The Duke of Albany or The Duke of Saxe Coburg & Gotha
17. The Stawell Gift (Australia’s premier annual foot race for professional sprinters)
18. Davis Base, Antarctica
19. Paraguay
20. Georgia
1. The beginning of the end
2. Beneficial
3. Comeuppance
4. Scarface
5. Buccaneer
6. It’s up to you
7. Monkey on your back
1. Nose around
2. Double take
3. Making a bee line
4. One foot in the grave
5. See eye to eye
6. Hand in hand
7. Mixing business with pleasure
1. (Your) days are numbered
2. Fat chance
3. Improvise
4. To come full circle
5. Pass the hat
6. Impend
7. Putting two and two together
1. Original sin
2. Railroaded
3. Low down double crosser
4. Venezuela
5. High praise indeed
6. Inescapable
7. Straw that broke the camel’s back
