December 2016 Mixed Bag Questions – Answers

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

Puzzles for November 2016

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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!

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

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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

13700193_1054121704666480_7843799502333502259_nDr 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.

View More Lynne Kelly

Puzzles for October 2016

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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

Logical Fallacies Crossword 2

Logical Fallacies Crossword 3

Logical Fallacies Crossword 4

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!