June’s Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” Questions occupy pride of place at the top of our PUZZLES PAGE
If you believe our pollies, Australia is the most profligate nation on Earth, while still managing to retain a Triple-A Credit Rating. To celebrate this remarkable feat, our JUNE SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE has Finance and Economics as its theme.
There are ten new LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS
Enjoy!
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The Vic Skeptics were honoured to have Professor Peter Doherty, scientist, author and Nobel prize winner deliver a talk at one of our regular ‘Third Monday’ events. Peter Doherty spoke on Skepticism, Denial and Ignorance: There is a Difference in March 2013. I should, of course, extend a kind thanks to Adam Ford for producing the video and allowing it to be posted here. View More Video – Professor Peter Doherty
1. a. 12 Days of Christmas; b. 1 or 2 Humps on a Camel; c. 15 Players in a Rugby Union Team
2. The Internet
3. Brands of cricket ball most used in international and first class matches
4. Beer
5. Montezuma (Moctezuma)
6. (d) Her actual marital status in the TV series was never specified.
7. Chad, France, Greece, Spain, (Wales and Laos could be accepted)
8. B. The Foxwoods casino in Connecticut is run by the Pequot tribe
9. True
10. Perth (just)
HARDER:
11. Both assumed the identity of Robin (the Boy Wonder) after Dick Grayson left the Batman & Robin team
12. Caerleon in Wales, Chester in England
13. Cope & Marsh
14. The Three Wise Monkeys
15. The Farmer’s Daughter
16. Rum & Coca Cola
17. TV technical pioneer, including inventing USA’s first TV picture tube
18. Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
19. Post-It notes
20. Church
1. Light Beer
2. Nightmare
3. Interconnected
4. Inebriated
5. For Once In My Life
6. Independence
7. Feline
1. Start Me Up
2. Running Bear
3. Sentry Duty
4. Return to sender
5. Pool Table
6. pantry
7. M & Ms
There are seven new Picture Puzzles and twenty “Mixed Bag” Questions at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE. You might like to use the Mixed Bag Questions as practice for the Tenth Annual Vic Skeptics Trivia Extravaganza on May 19. (See the EVENTS PAGE for further details)
To mark the NHMRC’s recent demolition of Homeopathy as a serious medical system, this month’s
MAY 2014 Skeptical Crossword has Homeopathy as its theme.It’s necessarily a smaller crossword than usual – but it still comes with both “straight” and cryptic clues.
To stretch your brain just that bit more, try the
MAY 2014 Logic & Maths Puzzles
ENJOY!
1. 18
2. 3 Apples
3. Shape (c)
4. a. 58 cubes b. 18 cubes
5. Card c
6. 4 tonnes
7. Behind him / backwards
8. Typing / Keyboard skills (The Spanish equivalent of “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”)
9. a. Paul b. Striped c. Paul d. Plain
10. The US gallon is only four-fifths the volume of the English gallon
1. (a) Trepidation, (b) Paroxysm, (c)Excruciating
2. 364
3. Tiger Woods
4. Gran Turismo or Grand Touring
5. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
6. Lt. Columbo
7. Rose Red
8. Gotham City
9. Paternal, parental
10. Garth
HARDER:
11. A Bank gave him $88 million by mistake
12. Ralph Lauren
13. (a) Ouida
(b) from her own childish pronunciation of her given name “Louise”
14. Mountains
15. A synthetic / man made element / element 116
16. Walter and John Huston (Treasure of Sierra Madre)
17. Boxing (World Heavyweight)
18. Youngest ever AFL/VFL
19. Republic of the Seychelles
20. 8 lengths
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Cosmology has been front page news all over the world this year — “Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun” said the New York Times.
Come and ask theoretical cosmologists and particle physicists Prof. Richard Easther (University of Auckland, @reasther) and Dr Katherine (Katie Mack (University of Melbourne, @astrokatie) what this means, what happens now, and what we are doing about in Australasia!
Wednesday May 7 2014
La Notte Restaurant 140 Lygon Street Carlton 8 pm
(Al Fresco Dinner From 6pm)
$10 entry to the presentation
