January 2016 Bonus Code Puzzles – Answers
- One Step forward, two steps back.
- Three Blind Mice [ no ‘i’s]
- Safety in numbers
- West Indies
- Tennis Shoes
- Robin Hood
- Back Slapping
- Missing Link
- Potatos
- Formidable
Age Editorial
We seem to be riding a wave of mainstream support for a Skeptical / rational view of health policy. The following is an editorial from The Age Newspaper of 22/12/15. The highlights are entirely down to us!
Well done, THE AGE !
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You cannot argue against the science
The science is clear. It is beyond argument. It is accepted. For hepatitis C sufferers, there is no dispute, only relief. The federal government announced yesterday that drugs to combat the disease will be placed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. The drugs can cost a patient $100,000 but, for Australia’s 230,000 sufferers, they will now be accessible for the PBS co-payment cost of $37.70, or $6.10 for concession.
According to Health Minister Sussan Ley, 10,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. She hopes that the drugs will not only halt the spread of Hep C, an infectious virus that attacks the liver, but in the long term eradicate it.
It is a welcome, and enlightened, move to alleviate suffering.
And then we move, in a historical paradox, from the enlightenment to the dark ages. The science is still clear. It is still beyond argument. It cannot be repudiated. And yet it is. The subject, of course, is the vaccination of children.
“Letter to the Editor…”
We’re pleased to re-post, with the kind permission of the authors, the following letter. It was published in The Australian newspaper on 18/12/15.
[We note with interest that at the time of posting The Australian is running with this issue on the front page.]
The government is struggling to find savings and about to make real inroads into pathology services, prescriptions and other valuable medical benefits of proven effectiveness. The Treasurer asks for suggestions as to where alternative savings might be made, so here are three. View More “Letter to the Editor…”
March 2016 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. 16 pencils and 5 jars
2. Two days
3. $0.45 or 45 cents
4. 12
5. Six teams
6. 2
7. a. 13 triangles b. 14 squares c. 27 hexagons
8. $1
9. You give one of your friends the box as well.
10. He will also say that the other two are from the same island.
February 2016 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. Amanda has 5 lollies and Krystal has 9
2. 24 black and 24 white. The black rectangle is 4 tiles X 6 tiles
3. 35
4. Prancer: Brisbane, Green sleigh
Dancer: Sydney, Yellow sleigh
Comet: Melbourne, Orange sleigh
Vixen: Perth, Blue sleigh
Rudolph: Adelaide, Red sleigh
5. $2000
6. 58
7. 12
8. 9
9. One quarter
10. Ages are 9, 2 and 2
Reasoning: The census taker could not figure out the children’s ages because, even with knowing the number on the house next , there were still two possibilities.
The only way that the product could be 36 and still leave two possibilities is when the sum equals 13. These possibilities being 9, 2 and 2 and 6, 6 and 1.
When the home owner stated that her “oldest” child is sleeping she was giving the census taker the fact that there is an “oldest”.
The children’s ages are therefore 9, 2 and 2.
January 2016 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
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
“Mixed Bag” Questions April 2016 – Answers
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
“Mixed Bag” Questions March 2016 – Answers
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
“Mixed Bag” Questions February 2016 – Answers
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
“Mixed Bag” Questions January 2016 – Answers
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