August brings us many interesting days. The following information was taken from a paperback book I picked up at a rummage sale for 25¢ called Stabbed with a Wedge of Cheese and other Culture Oddities by Charles Downey, but the days are indeed 'official' days heard and debated on the floor of Congress, and passed into law!
*International Clown week is the 1st through 7th, as well as is Beauty Queen Week. Whether or not these little tidbits of information are worthknowing - well, one never knows. You could win a game of Trivial Pursuit with one of them - and talking about Trivial Pursuit. . . on to this month's logic problems and I hope you enjoy them! |
Recently, Mr. Boddy invited Col. Mustard, Miss Scarlet, and the four Clue suspects over to play games. For a change, instead of playing Clue, they decided to play Trivial Pursuit instead. At the end of the game, each person had a different number of pieces on pie in his or her playing piece and one person had none (six being the most). Except for two players, each person landed on a different category for his or her very first question. While playing, each person had selected something different to drink while playing - Coffee, Dr. Pepper, Iced Tea, lemonade, Pepsi, Root Beer, or Sprite.
From the clues, determine the category in which each person landed for his or her first question (one is Geography), then number of pieces each had at the end of the game (if any), and the drink each player had chosen. Note: You probably are aware that in Trivial Pursuit there are only 6 playing pieces, but with a some colored paper, an extra one was made up so that seven people could play. :-)
1. The woman who drank Sprite had exactly three more pieces of pie than did Mr. Green.
2. The man whose first question was in the category of Sports & Leisure had less pieces of pie, if any, in his playing piece than did both of the women whose first question happened to be in the category, Science & Nature.
3. The man who drank Root Beer had exactly two more pieces of pie than Mrs. Peacock and exactly two fewer pieces than did the man who had Dr. Pepper to drink.
4. The woman who drank Pepsi, Mr. Boddy, Mrs. White, and the person whose first question was in the category of Entertainment, had in order from lowest to highest, consecutive number of pieces in their pie (and each had at least one).
5. It wasn’t in the category of Arts & Literature that the person who had Iced Tea answered his or her first question.
6. The player whose first question was in the category of Arts & Literature and the player whose first question was in History had fewer pieces of pie than did the person whose first question was in the category of Sports & Leisure.
7. Prof. Plum had at least two more pieces of pie than did the man who had coffee to drink.
8. The number of pieces the two women who drank Iced Tea and Sprite had were not consecutive.
9. Mr. Boddy isn’t the man who answered his first question in the category of Sports & Leisure.
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Stefano was off work for a week and so he decided to get a few things done. One chore was to finish some birdhouses he had started during the Spring. Each bird house was different - four made from wood in a different design - a barn, a duplex, a log cabin, and a Swiss Chalet, and one was made from a gourd. After finishing them, he hung each out in a different area of his yard - one from the end of his clothesline, one from the eave of his tool shed, one on a fence post, one from a tree limb, and one mounted on his yard light pole. The next week he noticed that a pair of birds (one was a pair of finches) had taken up residence in each bird house, each on a different day of the week (Monday through Friday). From the clues, determine the day of the week each type of bird had taken up resident in a bird house, and the design and location of each bird house.
1. It wasn’t the pair of wrens who had moved into the bird house hanging from the eave of Stefano’s tool shed.
2. Stefano didn’t hang the bird house which looked like a barn from a limb of a tree.
3. The pair of sparrows didn’t take up residence in the bird house made from a gourd.
4. The five bird houses are the one that looked like a brick duplex, the one which looked like a Swiss Chalet, the one Stefano had mounted on a fence post, the one that a pair of bluebirds had moved into, and the one that remained unoccupied until Friday.
5. On one day a pair of birds had moved into the bird house Stefano had mounted on his yard light pole and the next day he noticed a pair of birds building their nests inside the bird house which looked like a log cabin
6. It wasn’t on Friday that a pair of birds moved into the bird house hanging form the eave of his tool shed, but it was the day after a pair of birds had moved into the bird house designed to look like a barn.
7. A pair of little chickadees had taken up residence in one of the bird houses the day before another pair moved into the bird house which looked like a Swiss Chalet.
8. The bird house Stefano hung from a tree limb wasn’t the last one to get a pair of feathered tenants, but it became a home for a pair of birds a day later in the week that when a pair of wrens moved into their new home.
9. It wasn’t the pair of sparrows who decided to make the bird house hanging from the eave of the tool shed their home for the summer.
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