February 4, 2015

“Mixed Bag” Questions March 2015 – Answers

  1. H2O

 

  1. David Boon

 

  1. Bores, Robes

 

  1. Piloting the first manned aircraft to Break the Sound Barrier

 

  1. A 9 sided polygon

 

  1. My Favourite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, The Magician,  The Incredible Hulk

 

  1. The Tempest

 

  1. Nicole Kidman, Elle MacPherson

 

  1. Anni-Frid or Frida

 

  1. Phoenix

 

HARDER:

 

  1. Hydraulic Press and Flush toilet are his best-known inventions

 

  1. The current President of France

 

  1. Max Born

 

  1. Meals on Wheels

 

  1. Dorothy Wall

 

  1. Rock-Paper-Scissors

 

  1. Carlos The Jackal

 

  1. Charles Bannerman

 

  1. Lightning

 

  1. An improvement that makes things worse
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February 1, 2015

February Puzzles

rubskepThe FEBRUARY 2015 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD is our fourth crossword to take Logical Fallacies as its theme. Here are the earlier ones:

LOGICAL FALLACIES CROSSWORD 1

LOGICAL FALLACIES CROSSWORD 2

LOGICAL FALLACIES CROSSWORD 3

There’s a set of FEBRUARY 2015 LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS

 Fresh Picture Puzzles and Mixed Bag Questions have been posted to the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.

Enjoy!

 

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January 21, 2015

“Mixed Bag” February 2015 – Answers

  1. Any five of:

Uganda

United States

United Kingdom

United Arab Emirates

Ukraine

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

 

  1. Three: (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane’s bid for 1992)

 

  1. Patton

 

  1. Gypsy Rose Lee

 

  1. Chinese checkers

 

  1. Beethoven

 

  1. Missy Higgins

 

  1. The Riddler

 

  1. Five

 

  1. 1964

 

HARDER:

 

  1. Went over Niagara Falls in a barrel

 

  1. Two

 

  1. Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize for literature, played for Dublin University when it was in the English County competition)

 

  1. Bruce

 

  1. Sweden

 

  1. 1900

 

  1. Thirty

 

  1. Luck, Wisconsin

 

  1. Pajero is Spanish slang for “masturbator”. (It wasn’t selling very well)

 

  1. I’ll have what she’s having
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December 31, 2014

January Puzzles

qskep * Our January 2015 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD is, as usual, available in both standard and cryptic versions and has Chiropractic as its theme;

* here are the JANUARY 2015 LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS ;

* and new sets of PICTURE PUZZLES  and  “MIXED BAG” (trivia type) QUESTIONS have been placed at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE

Enjoy!

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December 29, 2014

“Mixed Bag” January 2015 – Answers

1. Remit, merit, mitre

2. Eddie Charlton

3. sleep

4. Mersey River

5. Contented cows

6. floating harbours

7. Atlantic

8. New South Wales

9. It was a ferry which sank killing 193 people

10. Antipasto

HARDER:

11. Fauntleroy

12. Thomas Sullivan

13. Colours, dyes

14. John Quincy Adams

15. Saint

16. Dag Hammarskjold

17. A peace treaty had already been signed

18. Venice, Italy

19. He was the last WWII Japanese soldier to surrender, on 9 March, 1974

20. He invented the first working submarine (in 1620)

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