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
Try our new monthly batch of puzzles and diversions!
There are seven new Picture Puzzles and some “Mixed Bag” Trivia at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
April’s Skeptical Crossword is HERE
April’s Logic & Maths Puzzles are HERE
ENJOY!
1. 29 frogs
2. Shape (c)
3. 44 penguins, 28 huskies
4. Treble = 8, double = 20, single = 13
5. 40
6. Apples 30¢ Bananas 50¢ Cantaloupes $1.20
7 A. The green ball will stop dead. The red ball will fly off to the right at high speed.
8. Cube 1: one rubber band Cube 2: two rubber bands
9. Four times
10. 21
1. Iron, copper, silver, gold, Tin, mercury lead
2. Anagrams of the 4 major compass points
3. Illinois
4. Claude Monet
5. Christmas tree
6. Pygmy shrew
7. Native Australian berry / bush tucker
8. sneezing
9. Tinky-Winky, La-La, Dipsy, Po
10. Chad Morgan
HARDER:
11. Architecture / town planning
12. “pick me up” or “lift me up”
13. Chicken & mushrooms
14. South
15. La Rosa di Bagdad aka The Rose of Baghdad aka The Singing Princess
16. Mahomet
17. Thunderbirds (“Brains”)
18. Captain Marvel
19. Ellery Queen books / novels / titles
20. Sir Hubert Wilkins
1. Start Me Up
2. Iconic
3. Tongue in cheek
4. Emotion
5. Whole milk
6. Totally inept
7. Tap Dancers
1. abominable
2. formidable
3. I envy you
4. Assassinate
5. asinine
6. Robin Hood
7. West Indies
