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November 2016 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. 17
2. 729 (cubes of consecutive odd numbers: 729 = 93)
3. 27 (Given 3 and 7 as the first two numbers in the sequence, each succeeding number is the sum of the two previous numbers in the sequence)
4. 12 people
5. 23
6. He will never do it. In fact by these rules he is limited to less than 20 metres in total.
7. 78
8. The house numbers
9. 13 people
10. (In order) 10, 15, 9, 20, 12
Convention latest
The Program
Thursday November 24: Convention Trivia Night
The Clyde Hotel cnr Elgin & Cardigan Streets Carlton
Meal from 6pm, Trivia at 7.30 pm
$15 / head entry only (meal & drinks at pub prices)
Friday November 25: Skepticamp
University of Melbourne Old Arts Theatre
9.00 to 5.00
A Great line-up of speakers, and all free.
More details on the UMSS website, here.
Friday November 25: Meet & Greet for Convention ticket-holders.
Bridie O’Reilly’s 29 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
6.00 pm to 9.30 pm View More Convention latest
Lynne Kelly
Dr Lynne Kelly is one of the more interesting people to be encountered among the Australian Skeptical community. She’s a writer, researcher and science educator, as well as being a foundation member of Australian Skeptics.
Lynne tends not to follow stereotypes. Her first tertiary qualification was in Engineering; armed with this, she began a teaching career in government secondary schools. On the way she co-authored a series of Maths text books. She later branched into extension education for gifted children. Her 1994 book Challenging Minds: Thinking Skills and Enrichment Activities is one result of that period.
Puzzles for October 2016
This month as a bonus we’ve given you an extra ten pre-loved code-type puzzles to solve (see left)
You’ll find the answers HERE
The October 2016 Skeptical Crossword Puzzle is called Logical Fallacies # 5.
Here are the links to our previous Logical Fallacies crossword puzzles:
Logical Fallacies Crossword 1
There’s also the October 2016 Logic & Maths Problems
and new sets of Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” questions, which are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
Enjoy!
Oct 2016 extra code puzzles – answers
Serious undertaking
The After-effects
Leftovers
Space Invaders
Missing link
Benign influence
Horseback
Long Johns
Ready to go
Act out of character
“Mixed Bag” Questions November 2016 – Answers
1. They are very thin
2. Francis Xavier
3. Xanadu
4. Hog
5. Triumph
6. Xenophobia
7. Distance walked based on number of steps taken
8. Queensland
9. Gough Whitlam
10. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
HARDER:
11. Three Months
12. Removing or neutralizing a metal object’s magnetic field; to stop them setting off magnetic mines
13. Colin Dexter
14. Hannibal
15. Potomac
16. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodson/ Lecturer in Mathematics
17. Uniform Resource Locator
18. Charlotte Corday
19. Petri dish
20. Adams
“Mixed Bag” Questions October 2016 – Answers
1. Milan
2. Kylie Minogue
3. Cigarettes
4. Dummy
5. Nigeria
6. The Defenders and The Brady Bunch
7. Xylophone
8. A. Madrid B. Harare C. Bankok
9. 1972
10. Fried Rice
HARDER:
11. Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation
12. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
13. Caroline Graham
14. It’s the old postal address of the Eau-de-Cologne factory in the German town of Cologne (Koln) when under French occupation
15. Light Rum, Southern Comfort. Triple Sec, Lemon juice, Dash of Bitters
16. All have been official events in at least one Olympics
17. 1959
18. Reagan, Goneril, Cordelia
19. Pete Conrad
20. Beeswax
A Skeptic’s Guide to Bible Codes
This article first appeared as a Vic Skeptics discussion pamphlet and was first posted here in March 2011.
by Peter Barrett, Canberra Skeptics, updated by Ken Greatorex
In the late 1990s, a book called “The Bible Code” was published. Its author, Michael Drosnin, claimed that a high-powered computer program had uncovered a large number of secret messages in the Jewish Bible (the Christian Old Testament). The most amazing claim was that a few years before the book’s publication, this program had discovered that the then Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzakh Rabin, faced assassination. Several months after Drosnin and his partners warned him, Mr Rabin was assassinated. View More A Skeptic’s Guide to Bible Codes