Skeptics Café

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.

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

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

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

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

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

1. The beginning of the end
2. Beneficial
3. Comeuppance
4. Scarface
5. Buccaneer
6. It’s up to you
7. Monkey on your back

1. Nose around
2. Double take
3. Making a bee line
4. One foot in the grave
5. See eye to eye
6. Hand in hand
7. Mixing business with pleasure

1. (Your) days are numbered
2. Fat chance
3. Improvise
4. To come full circle
5. Pass the hat
6. Impend
7. Putting two and two together