August Puzzles
The
has the theme of OSTEOPATHY, in the light of our recent article on that topic.
There’s the usual monthly set of
with seven new Picture Puzzles and twenty new Mixed Bag Questions at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
Enjoy!
Review – Psychic Sally in Melbourne
By Mal Vickers
After the self-promotional video Sally walks on stage to applause:
“Now, there is a young boy here, as I walked on, he came on with me. I’ve not had a chance to process him. His name is James. He is saying (putting on the voice of a little boy) ‘I am sorry, I am sorry’.”
Sally Morgan’s show is underway.
For the benefit of readers, I set aside an evening along with fellow Skeptic Tony Pitman to report on popular UK psychic Sally Morgan’s show. Braving a very cold mid-winter’s Melbourne night to attend, we sat amongst 500 people in the audience of the Athenaeum Theatre which was at approximately 50% capacity.
Sally Morgan is one of the best known psychics in the UK, but is less well known in Australia. She has certainly attracted a fair share of controversy in the UK (see here, here and here).
I did a little research before attending; well, when I say ‘research’ I mean that I watched a few of Sally Morgan’s promotional You-Tube videos. The most obvious difference between the promotional videos and the actual live gig View More Review – Psychic Sally in Melbourne
July Puzzles
Our
JULY 2015 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
has the theme of CONSPIRACY THEORIES
There’s also a set of
JULY 2015 LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS
Seven new Picture Puzzles and twenty new Mixed Bag Questions have been placed at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
Enjoy!
“Mixed Bag” Questions September 2015 – Answers
1. Honey (”Hunny”)
2. Praised
3. She had defected from a Russian Cruise ship by diving overboard.
4. Cats
5. Nine Days Old
6. Katherine Hepburn 1981; Sally Field 1984; Jessica Tandy 1989
7. Little Shop of Horrors
8. My Country, ‘Tis of Thee
9. Bendigo
10. C. Ethiopia
HARDER:
11. Bird of paradise
12. Damage from earthquakes
13. She sank herself with her own torpedo
14. J
15. St Paul Minnesota
16. Compete in 8 Olympic Games
17. Groundhog Day
18. A cria
19. It had a moveable jaw
20. Australian Grand Prix
September 2015 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. Yellow opposite orange, red opposite green, pink opposite blue
2. A. Emily B. Colin C. Fred D. Irene
3. The hole will become larger.
4. Treble 13, Double 18, single 16
5. 3
6. The water level of the pool will fall (The cannonball is much denser than the water. Let the cannonball have a volume of x litre. Assume the cannonball is ten times as dense as the water. Its mass will therefore be 10x kg. When the cannonball is placed in the boat, the boat settles by an amount which displaces 10 kg of water or 10x litres of water. However, when the cannonball is taken out of the boat and placed directly in the water, it only displaces its own VOLUME of water or x litres. This will have the same effect on the water level of the pool as taking 9x litres out.)
7. There are no “E”s
8. Treble 18, double 4, single 13
9. 2519 prisoners
10. The rule is: double the first number then take away 8. The answer is therefore 20
“Mixed Bag” Questions August 2015 – Answers
1. They all pop
2. 25th century
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Nelson Mandela
5. I, Claudius
6. The Jordonaires
7. Rome
8. Labour, Conservative, Liberal-Democrats
9. 1968
10. French, German, Italian, Romansch
HARDER:
11. Published a September 31 issue
12. W.C. Fields
13. Teflon
14. The Twelve Apostles
15. He shorted out Glasgow’s electricity supply
16. Movies
17. Uranus
18. He was a Pope and was dead. The succeeding pope had him exhumed in order to put him on trial.
19. All attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria
20. Her body was grossly swollen due to gout
August 2015 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. a = 44 , b = 19 , c = 10,
2. a. No b. Yes c. No d. Yes
3. a. fruit; b. bread; c. aisle 4
4. U, E, N
5. The pear is grown inside the bottle
6. Z – Set 1 contains letters composed entirely of straight lines
7. Option C. There is as much water in the milk/water mixture as milk in the water/milk mixture.
8. Looks like 88.
9. 9 metres [As one of two equal length diagonals of the rectangle, the dark blue line has length equal to the radius of the circle, which is (6 + 3) = 9 m]
10. 2.5 km [If Bill and Fred are 2km apart and approach each other at 10 km/hr each, their closing speed is 20 km / hr. They therefore meet in 0.1 hours (6 minutes). How far can Fido run in 0.1 hr at 25 km/hr? Answer: 2.5 km]
December 2015 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. blunderbuss
2. Time flies
3. overextended
4. One man band
5. What goes up must come down
6. Honour Among Thieves
7. Foreign language lessons