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Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:06 pm
by fernando
Here is a seasonal offering that my maths teacher gave to me. I hope it gets your brains working a bit.
I will have the answers after Christmas.
PLEASE DON'T SEND ME THE ANSWERS AS I DON'T WANT TO CHEAT ON MY HOMEWORK!!
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:12 pm
by fernando
also
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:43 pm
by fernando
And finally
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:50 pm
by Scurra
fernando wrote:I hope it gets you're brains working a bit.
I bet your English Teacher wouldn't be too happy to read this though
Thanks. I must confess that I'm not a big fan of "maths" puzzles, which is why you won't find too many in Puzzlebrains - but that doesn't mean there won't be any
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:18 pm
by fernando
Four typos corrected.
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:24 pm
by giraffe
Well I'm impressed. I've never used publisher and it would have been a whole lot easier to just scan the sheet in, if only we knew how to use the scanner
Part of question 5 seems to be missing.
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:32 pm
by fernando
Is that better?
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:34 pm
by MBH
These look like fun
What 'age range' are they being thrown at?
giraffe wrote:I've never used publisher....
if only we knew how to use the scanner
(You don't work for the library do you? The number of times I hear both these lines from libarary staff
If you want to learn, you've got to learn - and then DO)
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:19 pm
by gill216
Humph is all I can say MBH. OH being all things musical we have this complicated sound system attached to the TV, DVD, video, etc.
I couldn't get any sound out of the DVD and he said exactly your words. "You have to learn how to use it and then dont be frightened of it"
Guess who would have got the blame if I'd fiddled with it. Then he remembered he'd taken a lead out of the back to use on something else..........................
Just Humph.
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:35 pm
by Snoopy
I have also heard that from my husband. He sounds like yours, Gill. We have DVD, bluray DVD, amps, preamps etc. To play a DVDVD(as my granson calls them) I need to use 4 remote controls for 5 pieces of equipment. I have frequently phoned him (he works in a library) to ask why I have sound and no picture or vice versa. Usually he has rewired something and not told me. But I am meant to know this and be able to work it out. MEN!!!
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:48 pm
by giraffe
I have scanned things, but they always come out small and blurry.
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:56 pm
by fernando
These look like fun What 'age range' are they being thrown at?
Mainly years 10 and 11 ie age 14 to 16 I think.
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:48 pm
by Bunnylump
Probably a bit too hard for me then!
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:43 pm
by MBH
Snoopy wrote:To play a DVDVD(as my granson calls them)
YOU are Twiki's grandmother?
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:37 am
by Bunnylump
You get people from all walks of life here, don't you?
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:50 am
by LAT
Yes, and I don't even understand half of them
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:02 pm
by evilkeen
Ooh Fernando, thank you. I might give that to some of my pupils!
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:37 pm
by evilkeen
Fernando, in question 1 is there by any chance a clue for 10 down? Without it I can solve everything except that there are two alternatives for each of the first two digits of 13 across, which a clue for 10 down would probably resolve.
Kevin
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:50 pm
by gill216
Try the clue for 9 down as there isn't a 9 down.
Re: Christmas Quiz
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:58 pm
by giraffe
That's right. He has typed 9 instead of 10. There is also a comment at the end of the question that "No answer begins with 0"