Skeptics Café

1. Italy, Hungary, Germany, Norway

2. Clancy of the Overflow

3. New Zealand

4. hunch

5. Men’s brief swimming trunks

6. “GP” i.e. General Purpose

7. Pat Garrett

8. 40 and 41

9. (a) England (b) Sir Thomas More

10. Colonel Sander’s Kentucky Fried Chicken

HARDER:

11. 120 mm

12. 1936 / Hobart Zoo

13. 8

14. 621

15. 24

16. The Nobel Prize in Physics for (accept any of):
Inventing the transistor
Electronics
Work on transistors
Work on semiconductors

17. Trampoline, Tai-Kwon-Do, Triathlon

18. Caramel (colour)

19. 1946, deposed by the new communist regime

20. Jupiter

1. Home Alone
2. Blade Runner
3. 12 Monkeys
4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
5. The Lion King
6. An Officer and a Gentleman
7. Portnoys Complaint

1. Dr Doolittle
2. Beat around the bush
3. Split right down the middle
4. Too stuck up for words
5. Get back in bed
6. Altered states
7. Zulu

1. Illness (TB or “consumption”)

2. Crossword puzzles

3. Annual World Music Festival held in Adelaide, South Australia

4. Gut / Digestive system

5. To treat cuts from shaving

6. The length of her hair

7. 1954

8. Resin

9. Purple to mauve

10. 1985

HARDER:

11. Removing or neutralizing a metal object’s magnetic field / To stop them setting off magnetic mines

12. Hannibal / The Carthaginian army

13. The Potomac

14. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodson / Lecturer in Mathematics

15. Uniform Resource Locator

16. Charlotte Corday

17. 20

18. 1920 / The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Hercule Poirot

19. New York (USA), Bilbao (Spain), Venice (Italy), Helsinki (Finland)

20. Five

1. 34

2. $1331

3. 12:33 pm

4. – 40°

5. 100

6. Your mother

7. Four minutes

8. Adam $175, Ben $1225

9. Two cakes

10. 39 m

1. 8

2. 6 ways
(1X 20c + 1 X 10c)
(1 X 20c + 2 X 5c)
(3 X 10c)
(2 x 10c + 2 X 5c)
(1X10c + 4 X 5c)
(6 X 5c)

3. (a) 7m X 5 m (b) 35 square metres

4. 1

5. Mother 73, daughter 37

6. Tuesday
When Leo says “I lie on both Mondays and Tuesdays” then says “I lie on both Wednesdays and Fridays”:
Both those statements can’t be true because he only tells the truth once in the week.
Both those statements can’t be false, because if they were it would mean he would be tells the truth at least twice in one week.
So ONE of those statements is true, and one is false.
So Leo tells the truth one of these four days; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday.
On the day that Leo says “Today is either Thursday, Saturday or Sunday”, that has to be a lie. That statement was made on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday.
If it was made on a Monday, then Leo said “I lie on both Mondays and Tuesdays” on Sunday, and “I lie on both Wednesdays and Fridays” on a Tuesday.
If it was made on a Tuesday, then Leo said “I lie on both Mondays and Tuesdays” on Monday, and “I lie on both Wednesdays and Fridays” on a Wednesday.

7. The letter A

8. a. Thirty cubes b. forty cubes

9. a. 1st Duncan, 2nd Billy, 3rd Adrian b. Duncan, Billy, Adrian, Keith

10. 11 cartons: 7 of large boxes (7 x 8 = 56 boxes) 4 of small boxes (4 x 10 = 40 boxes)