Posted By: Urban Worrier
Rog's Rag-bag (with hints) - 06/16/18 05:22 PM
Maths, logic, trivia, puns, general silliness - an assortment of stuff too disparate to go under any other title. In other words, same old rubbish. 
1. Lex's chauffeur was very punctual. He always left Lex's residence at the same time, drove at a constant rate, and always got to the station at exactly 5 P.M. in time to meet his employer's train. One day Lex got to the station at 4 P.M. and began to walk home at the rate of four miles an hour. His chauffeur met him on the way and drove him home. They got home twenty minutes earlier than usual. How fast did the chauffeur drive? The tough way is lots of nasty maths. The easy(?) is to work out how early the chauffer met Lex and hence the proportion of the total distance that each had covered. This ratio is also the ratio of their respective speeds.
-2. Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B, Baker Street, London. Which other famous person also lived at 221B, Baker Street - although not in London? He has a lot in common with Sherlock Holmes. He is a fictional character, a sort of detective (but don't get hung up on that). Like Holmes, his best friend is a doctor whose initials are also JW, was an addict, and his surname is linked in an auditory fashion to Holmes. Unlike Holmes, he lived in America
-3. Which is the odd-one out and why?
aluminium, cobalt, gallium, molybdenum, zinc
-4. Place the digits 1 to 8 in the eight squares cells so that no two consecutive numbers are in adjacent cells. ("Adjacent" cells are cells connected by lines.)
Brute force not necessary, it can be solved logically.
Find the cells which have only one non-adjacent cell. These must be the "end" numbers, because if any other numbers were in those cells it would be impossible to place that number's two neighbours.
-5. You're given a 7 minute and a 4 minute hourglass. Measure a 9 minute interval using the minimum number of "moves", and taking only 9 minutes in total. Remember that an hourglass can be turned over before it has fully run out...
-6. . "Doctor, Doctor - I can't stop singing 'The Green, Green Grass of Home'"
"That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome."
"Is it common?"
"--'- --- -------"
-7. Not quite a Tom Swifty:
"Who discovered radium?" asked M----, c--------.
-8. 3. What number completes this series and why?
27 11 6 3 5 ?
1. Lex's chauffeur was very punctual. He always left Lex's residence at the same time, drove at a constant rate, and always got to the station at exactly 5 P.M. in time to meet his employer's train. One day Lex got to the station at 4 P.M. and began to walk home at the rate of four miles an hour. His chauffeur met him on the way and drove him home. They got home twenty minutes earlier than usual. How fast did the chauffeur drive? The tough way is lots of nasty maths. The easy(?) is to work out how early the chauffer met Lex and hence the proportion of the total distance that each had covered. This ratio is also the ratio of their respective speeds.
-2. Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B, Baker Street, London. Which other famous person also lived at 221B, Baker Street - although not in London? He has a lot in common with Sherlock Holmes. He is a fictional character, a sort of detective (but don't get hung up on that). Like Holmes, his best friend is a doctor whose initials are also JW, was an addict, and his surname is linked in an auditory fashion to Holmes. Unlike Holmes, he lived in America
-3. Which is the odd-one out and why?
aluminium, cobalt, gallium, molybdenum, zinc
-4. Place the digits 1 to 8 in the eight squares cells so that no two consecutive numbers are in adjacent cells. ("Adjacent" cells are cells connected by lines.)
Code:
___ ___
| |_| |
/|___| |___|\
/ | \/ | \
___/ _|_/\ _|_ \___
| |__| |_| |__| |
|___| |___| |___| |___|
\ | \/ | /
\ _|_ /\_|_ /
\| |_| |/
|___| |___|
Find the cells which have only one non-adjacent cell. These must be the "end" numbers, because if any other numbers were in those cells it would be impossible to place that number's two neighbours.
-5. You're given a 7 minute and a 4 minute hourglass. Measure a 9 minute interval using the minimum number of "moves", and taking only 9 minutes in total. Remember that an hourglass can be turned over before it has fully run out...
-6. . "Doctor, Doctor - I can't stop singing 'The Green, Green Grass of Home'"
"That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome."
"Is it common?"
"--'- --- -------"
-7. Not quite a Tom Swifty:
"Who discovered radium?" asked M----, c--------.
-8. 3. What number completes this series and why?
27 11 6 3 5 ?
