September brings us some very strange days to celebrate. The entire month is Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month, Cable TV Month, Nat'l Courtesy Month, and Nat'l Piano Month. Makes one wonder if during all the other months one shouldn't watch Cable TV or be nice to others? :-) Listed below are some "special days" in September.
* The 1st is Emma M. Nutt Day. It honors the first woman telephone operator who started her job in Boston on this day in 1878 an stuck with it for 33 years. And there you have some more trivial tidbits to mark on your calender. Hope you enjoy these little jewels of wisdom! |
Each year the small New England village were Mr. Boody and the six clue suspects live hold An Apple A Day Fair, where all events have to do with apples, in one form or another. One of the attractions is the Apple Dessert Bake-off where contestants enter dishes and a panel of judges determine the winner. In times past there were at least a dozen entrants and the panel gave out only three prizes - first, second, and third. However, this year there were so many entrants the Bake-off Committee decided to award six prizes - each a gift certificate for two to a restaurant which specializes in a particular ethnic cuisine - French, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Swedish, and Thai. As it turned out, each of the six suspects won one of the six gift certificate for their delicious entries!
Mr. Boddy had sent his long sleek limousine to collect his six friends and transport them to the Apple A Day Fair, and each was picked up in a different order (first through sixth). From the clues, determine the order each individual (including Prof. Plum) was picked up at their home, the dessert each brought to enter into the contest, and the type of cuisine served at the restaurant for which each received for his or her gift certificate.
1. Arriving at the Apple A Day Fair, the chauffeur jumped out and helped out each passenger in this order: Mr. Green, Mrs. White, the person he had picked up second, the person who had Apple Strudel as his or her entry, Mrs. Peacock, and the person he had picked up first.
2. After picking up Mr. Green at his home, the chauffer had picked up exactly one other person before collecting the person who had made the deep-dish Apple Pie.
3. The first person on the list Mr. Body had made out for his chauffeur to collect wasn’t the one whose entry was either the Apple Walnut Bread or the Apple Cobbler.
4. Miss Scarlet is not the winner of the gift certificate for two at a restaurant that served Swedish cuisine.
5. Being the first to arrive, the six suspects took the first six spots at the long table where the dishes were to be displayed, from left to right, in this order: Miss Scarlet, the winner of the gift certificate to a Thai restaurant, the person who entered the Apple Dumplings, the person who entered the Apple Caramel Cake, the fifth person the chauffeur fetched on his rounds, and Col. Mustard.
6. The limousine arrived at the house of the person who made Apple Walnut Bread before it arrived at the house of the person who made the Apple Dumplings.
7. Exactly two people were collected by the chauffeur between the time he picked up the person who won the gift certificate to the Japanese restaurant and the person who won the gift certificate to French restaurant.
8. Mrs. White is not the person who entered the Apple Cobbler in the bake-off.
9. Exactly one person was collected before the person whose entry was the Apple Strudel and after the person who received the certificate to the restaurant which served Thai cuisine.
10. Exactly one person was picked up at his or her home after the person who won the gift certificate to the restaurant specializing in Mexican food and before the person who won the gift certificate for the restaurant specializing in Italian food.
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| ORDER PICKED UP |
ENTRANT'S NAME | APPLE DESSERT ENTRY | RESTAURANT CERTIFICATE |
Stefano loves working out in his yard and over the years has transformed nothing but grass into a garden of flower and herb beds, shrubs, bushes, trees, and even a beautiful fountain with fish pond. A friend of his, who is a member of the local Horticultural Club, kept urging to Stefano to put his house on the list of homes to visit when they have their yearly Garden Tours. Finally, Stefano agreed, after his friend explained that there were several restrictions: no smoking, no taking of clippings or seeds, stay on the path designated by the homeowner, no littering, etc.
Stefano’s friend has five drivers - Alicia, David, Jon, Mark, and Teresa, and each would bring a group at two hour intervals (there are other homes on the tour, too, so they like to have plenty of time at each home). Of course, not all went perfect as one member of each tour broke one the rules, a couple of which made him very upset (one knocked over an urn full of beautifully flowering pansies!) From the clues, determine the driver of the van which brought the tour members at each scheduled time (8:00 AM was first and 4:00 PM was the last tour), the person who committed the offense (by description only), and what it was he or she did.
1. The woman in the purple hat is neither the one who wandered off the path through the herb garden and ended up trampling a Rosemary plant nor the one who picked a rose off a rose bush and stuck it in his button hole on his shirt.
2. Alicia wasn’t the driver of the touring van where one woman was caught gathering some cuttings from one of Stefano’s flowering vines.
3. Jon was driver of a van during an earlier tour than the one on which the man wearing pince nez was a passenger, which was earlier in the day than the passenger who trampled over Stefano’s Rosemary.
4. The woman wearing the purple hat wasn’t a garden tourist in Mark’s van.
5. Teresa and her group arrived at Stefano’s house earlier in the day that the group which included the girl with five rings in her nose, which was earlier than the group where one member was reminded not to smoke so threw his cigarette in the fish pond (which wasn’t the tour group to stop at Stefano’s house first that day).
6. The man in the orange overalls isn’t the one who destroyed the Rosemary plant.
7. The girl with five rings in her nose didn’t ride in the van driven by Jon.
8. The touring group with included the bald man with the red goatee arrived later in the day than the group driving by David, but earlier in the day than the group where one tourist tried to gather some cuttings from some plants.
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| TOUR TIMES | VAN DRIVER | PASSENGER ON EACH TOUR |
OFFENSE COMMITTED |