“Mixed Bag” Questions October 2015 – Answers

1. Round Australia Trial

2. A baby

3. Two Spaniards, one Italian

4. capes, paces, scape, space

5. Tuberculosis

6. liver

7. Painting

8. Austin

9. 1967

10. Carp

HARDER:

11. Shane Gould (the former Olympic Gold medal winning female swimmer)

12. The life-saving reel

13. Ohio

14. Get Smart TV series theme

15. He was a Chinese bush ranger

16. Honduras & El Salvador

17. Speed skating (Munich 1936)

18. The ghost of an American college student who died after a drinking bout

19. Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain

20. Mr Waverley, Leo G Carroll

December 2015 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions

1. 1st: Jack of clubs 3rd: Ace of Spades 5th: 9 of Hearts 7th: 8 of hearts

2. (In any order:) Edward Peters, Robert Edwards and Peter Roberts

3. 11111

4. 15 days

5. 70 cars

6. a. T [One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, ___]

b. 10

7. (a) butler (b) Clark (c) bridge (d) squash

8. (c) nearly certain for any group of about 25 or more people [see http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/]

9. No: It can be divided by 3, 9, 7 and 49

10. 10 triangles

November 2015 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions

1. 10m X 15 m

2. Mum is 37       Girls are both 9

3. 16%

4. I hour and twenty minutes (80 minutes)

5. 40

6. (a) 25
(b) D (Months of the year, starting with July)
(c) 61 (following the rule y = x2 – 3)

7. 20

8. $2.00 (End of first year $18, End of second year $6, End of third year $2)

9. 10 ways

10. The sphere is slightly larger than the cube

Too Complicated?

This is a brief article about the evolution of the human eye. It first appeared as a Vic Skeptics discussion pamphlet.
The full range of our discussion pamphlets can be downloaded here:

https://skeptics.cafe/useful-info/

or here:

http://www.skeptics.com.au/resources/educational/

Note that the diagrams in this article can be saved in high res by clicking on each diagram.

too complicated header

It is often claimed that the eye is such a wonderfully purposeful organ that evolution (i.e. random chance) can not possibly explain it; it must have been designed. In support of this position, Charles Darwin himself often gets half-quoted.

View More Too Complicated?

September Puzzles

02aTry
SEPTEMBER 2015 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
on RELIGIOUS IMAGERY ;

or the
SEPTEMBER 2015 LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS

new PICTURE PUZZLES and  MIXED BAG QUESTIONS  at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE

Enjoy!

Special Event – Susan Gerbic

Image002

Thursday 1st October 2015

Affectionately called The Wikipediatrician, Susan Gerbic is the co-founder of Monterey County Skeptics, and a regular contributor to SKEPTICALITY podcast and the founder of the GUERILLA SKEPTICISM on WIKIPEDIA project. She received the “In the Trenches” award at CFI’s 2012 Skeptic’s Toolbox, and the James Randi award for Skepticism in the Public Interest in 2013. Gerbic’s efforts to clean up pseudoscience on Wikipedia and create pages for well-known skeptics has made her a “super villain” in the eyes of the paranormal community. You can contact her at SusanGerbic.com

7.30 pm

The Club Room,

La Notte Restaurant 140 Lygon Street Carlton

($5 entry)

(Join us for an al fresco meal from 6pm)

 

 

For the Classroom

Untitled Capture-03Vic Skeptics produces original classroom material, which we make available free.
It’s mainly aimed at Science teaching and learning, but it serves a wide range of topics and age groups.

We invite you to look over and sample our down-loadable .pdfs, which include:

  • A Skeptics Guide to ……  discussion sheets
  • Crosswords (blackline masters)
  • Wordsearches and quizzes (blackline masters)
  • Cryptograms (blackline masters)
  • The Darwin Day Suite of classroom exercises

Go HERE or click on the USEFUL INFO tab at the top of the page