June 2014 Skeptical Crossword – Solution
May Puzzles
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!
May 2014 Logic & Maths Puzzles – Solutions
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
“Mixed Bag” May 2014 – Answers
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
SPECIAL EVENT! Big News About the Big Bang
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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
April 2014 Puzzles
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!
April 2014 Logic & Maths Puzzles – Solutions
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
“Mixed Bag” April 2014 – Answers
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
May 2014 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. Start Me Up
2. Iconic
3. Tongue in cheek
4. Emotion
5. Whole milk
6. Totally inept
7. Tap Dancers