October 2013 Mixed Bag – Answers

1. Eleven times

2. Corsica belongs to France; the other three belong to Italy

3. 1978

4. Hands and feet

5. Groucho Marx

6. Africa

7. They are claimed by six different countries

8. Fennel

9. The Avengers
Cathy Gale was played by Honor Blackman
Emma Peel was played by Diana Rigg

10. prosthesis

“Next Level”:

11. London Underground Map

12. 100:1 winners of the Melbourne Cup

13. Vegemite

14. on top of pillars

15. Ytterby

16. Finland

17. Hanged her nephew’s dog for chewing her bible

18. Permanent crease trousers

19. Vegemite (reason: it’s biggest competitor was Marmite)

20. Istanbul

21. Green, Berry and Hill

22. The Pelican

23. smothered to death by gifts of cloaks showered upon him by appreciative citizens

24. dishwasher

25. Oscar Wilde

26. from a lethal combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing

27. Construction / building

28. Ray Barrett

29. John Irving

30. Broke into Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom

September Puzzles

Our Puzzles for September 2013 have been posted.

  • There are the usual seven Picture Puzzles, each of which decodes to a word, phrase, song title, book, or film.
  • The “Mixed Bag” Questions have an added feature. After the usual ten questions, we’ve added twenty “next level” questions. These are, depending on your point of view, interesting, difficult, informative, quirky or totally unfair. A score of one out of twenty could be considered surprisingly good! The Picture Puzzles and Mixed Bag Questions have pride of place on our PUZZLES PAGE.
  • Our Skeptical Crossword is the second of three on the the theme of Logical Fallacies. It can be found HERE. Logical Fallacies Crossword (1) was posted back in July 2012 and can be found HEREWe expect Locial Fallacies Crossword (3) to follow next month.
  • The Logic & Maths Problems can be found HERE

September 2013 “Mixed Bag” Questions – Answers

1. Sleeplessness

2. 100

3. “You Have Won Second Prize in a Beauty Contest”

4. cherries

5. elegy

6. Duke of York

7. Sheep

8. A man-powered aircraft

9. The Merchant of Venice

10. WC Fields

“Next Level”:

11. Fat / swollen due to gout

12. Bird of Paradise

13. Damage from earthquakes

14. She sank herself with her own torpedo

15. The letter J

16. St Paul, Minnesota

17. Compete in 8 Olympic Games

18. Groundhog Day

19. a Cria (pronounced cree-ya)

20. It had a moveable jaw

21. Australian Grand Prix

22. Shane Gould (better known as the only swimmer in history to hold all freestyle world records, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m and the  200m Individual Medley at the same time; winner of three Gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at the 1972 Olympics)

23. The life-saving reel

24. Ohio

25. The Get Smart TV series theme

26. Honduras and El Salvador

27. Speed skating (Munich 1936)

28. The ghost of an American college student who died after a drinking bout

29. Chinese bushranger

30. Connecticut

 

 

Another Big Psychic Show Rolls into Town

By Mal Vickers,

with assistance from Martin Hadley

Never has any psychic ever passed a rigorous scientific test of their claimed ability. While most skeptics are well aware of this, you’d think the media and society in general knew nothing of it.bingo cancelledwhite

Imagine what kind of world it would be if, from tomorrow, psychics really did have the abilities they claim to possess. The prizes from the next lottery would go to a series of psychics, presumably in order of merit. Fairly soon, non-psychics would stop buying tickets and the lotteries would fold. There wouldn’t be much point in casinos, bingo or horse races either.

The world we inhabit isn’t like that.  We have lotteries and casinos that make a fortune, despite the presence of many psychics who travel the world flaunting their talents.

This month, (July 2013) Australia will be hosting a visit from prominent, UK based, self-proclaimed psychic Sally Morgan. Sally is scheduled to do View More Another Big Psychic Show Rolls into Town