March 2015 Skeptical Crossword Puzzle – Solution
February Puzzles
The FEBRUARY 2015 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD is our fourth crossword to take Logical Fallacies as its theme. Here are the earlier ones:
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!
February 2015 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. 72 children
2. 23
3. Twelve people
4. three
5. $30
6. Day 20
7. FS (first letter of each word in What are the next two letters in the following sequence)
8. Three melons
9. Amanda has 5 lollies and Krystal has 9
10. Two days
“Mixed Bag” February 2015 – Answers
- Any five of:
Uganda
United States
United Kingdom
United Arab Emirates
Ukraine
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
- Three: (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane’s bid for 1992)
- Patton
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Chinese checkers
- Beethoven
- Missy Higgins
- The Riddler
- Five
- 1964
HARDER:
- Went over Niagara Falls in a barrel
- Two
- Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize for literature, played for Dublin University when it was in the English County competition)
- Bruce
- Sweden
- 1900
- Thirty
- Luck, Wisconsin
- Pajero is Spanish slang for “masturbator”. (It wasn’t selling very well)
- I’ll have what she’s having
January Puzzles
* 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!
January 2015 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. “A” will rise and “B” will descend.
2. 18 km
3. 22
4. 9 gram
5. the weight will rise.
6. six cigarettes
7. your mother
8. cube 6
9. a. Dropping a coin in the boat
10. nine triangles
“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)
March 2015 Picture Puzzles – Answers
- We’re in the money
- He came out of nowhere
- Honour among thieves
- Chalk it up
- Philanthropy
- General Knowledge
- No getting around it