1. $30
2. 30
3. The top of the mast
4. (a) 6 snakes (b) 14 lizards (c) 7 people
5. 4 ducks
6. Cabbage(21), pea(22), Leek(33), carrot(75)
7. Day (a) X is Dee, Y is Dum It’s Monday
Day (b) X is Dum, Y is Dee It’s Tuesday
Day (c) X is Dum, Y is Dee It’s Sunday
8. Thursday
9. Ann, by $20
10. 62 photos
1. Argentina
2. less than half
3. Chartreuse
4. True. Canal workers were relied upon to excavate new canals accurately according to a map.
5. B. antagonist
6. Walter Mitty
7. B. East to West
8. Leaders of the suffragette (votes for women) movement
9. Grant Hackett replaced Ian Thorpe (both Australian)
10. Tour de France (est 10 million)
HARDER:
11. Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service
12. Fire
13. Sir Lancelot
14. Deep Blue
15. Madrid
16. He was the explorer who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth (Second in command to Magellan who died during the voyage)
17. 17 (Malala Yousafzai, The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 joint winner)
18. Trumpet (Greek)
19. It’s free. A number of European cities have zero-fare public transport, but Tallin is the largest to do so)
20. Venice
1. Summer
2. potential
3. capitalism
4. Let us pray
5. Cannon ball
6. perspex
7. pioneer
Twelve years of Vic Skeptics’ tradition came to an end this week when La Notté Restaurant closed indefinitely.
Next January’s Skeptics Café (Monday January 16) will go ahead at The Clyde Hotel, corner of Cardigan and Elgin Streets in Carlton. Some of our readers will already be familiar with The Clyde as the site of our recent Convention Trivia Night.
We’ll be in The Lounge. You enter through the beer garden in Cardigan Street. After an optional meal from 6pm with food and drinks at quite reasonable pub prices, Tim Harding will speak on Scientific Skepticism vs Philosophical Skepticism at 8 pm. Those staying on for the talk will be asked to contribute $4.
Street parking can be tight in that area, but tends to open up after six pm. The Eastern Precinct Car Park is very convenient, being next door to the venue in Cardigan Street with a standard $5 fee after 5 pm.
It’s very accessible by public transport: Tram 1 or 8 every 6 minutes stops in Elgin Street at Stop 112.
The DECEMBER 2016 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD is about General Skeptical issues.
New sets of Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” questions, are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
and here’s the DECEMBER 2016 Logic & Maths Problems. Enjoy!
1. Still One in two or 50%
2. 56
3. 3 pm
4. It would be possible to lose a square manhole cover down the square hole that it covered: not possible with a round one.
5. 26
6. Four and two sevenths: (1 x 2 ÷ 3, 2 x 3 ÷ 4, 3 x 4 ÷ 5, 4 x 5 ÷ 6, 5 x 6 ÷ 7)
7. One dog, one cat, one fish
8. x = 18
9. x = 20
10. x = 4
1. Copenhagen
2. Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales
3. B. Where are you going?
4. Gene Autry
5. Princess Margaret of the UK
6. 1% (actually slightly less)
7. Rudyard Kipling
8. Bone Marrow
9. I Wanna Be Your Man
10. Eight; Melbourne, Munich, Montreal, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro
HARDER:
11. Vienna
12. Be born in Antarctica
13. He shot himself practicing quick-drawing against the snowman
14. Voiced Harry Potter when Daniel Radcliffe’s voice broke
15. Airey’s Inlet
16. The other members of Roald Amundsen’s team which first reached the South Pole
17. He was a glover (made gloves)
18. Last person in England to be burnt at the stake (for coining)
19. 14
20. Queen Margarethe II of Denmark
The NOVEMBER 2016 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE is called Selling The Pharm, and is about the often dubious marketing of both alternative and over-the-counter medicines.
There’s a set of November 2016 Logic & Maths Problems
and new sets of Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” questions, which are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
Enjoy!
