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Logica Armchair Treasure Hunt Where could it be? Where could it be? Where could it be? Where could it be? On December 17th I will conceal a small box with an l on its lid. Your task is to find it. Clues to its precise location can be found in the pages that follow. What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? Take the initial letter of the significant word of each answer, with names take the first letter of the surname unless it makes more sense to use the personal name. With double answers choose the letter that works better. It’s no secret that these will spell out answers to questions. If they don’t fit then you should try to find ‘my’ answer, or you could be on the right track. Signs might help point you in the right direction, but it can’t be that easy— the information you want may be missing. On the other hand you might like to consider where Blair cited Major as a political example. But when decoding ignore accidental signs. How do I enter? How do I enter? How do I enter? How do I enter? There is no official entry form, just write out your solutions legibly—it is not necessary to provide reasons for your answers although if we disagree then without explanations I can do nothing more than mark you wrong. And don’t forget your football goals. Bonus marks will be awarded for giving connections with the central theme, cracking relevant codes, the name of the treasure village and for finding the box itself. What are the rewards? What are the rewards? What are the rewards? What are the rewards? A prize of £60 will be awarded to the first finder of the box. £60 for the highest score, £40 for the second score, £30 for the third score and £10 for the entrant scoring the lowest score of at least 300 points. No team can win more than one prize and each must have a Logica ‘captain’. The scoring scheme reflects the degree of difficulty of each question. What if I find it? What if I find it? What if I find it? What if I find it? If you locate the treasure box then please use discretion while unearthing it, read the instructions inside and conceal the box as you found it. If you are sure you have found the right place and there is nothing there then please try to contact me as soon as possible as the box may have been disturbed. When does it end? When does it end? When does it end? When does it end? Entries must reach me, Rosalind Barden, by Weds 10th January 1996. If no-one has found the treasure then extra clues will be issued to entrants only, please keep a copy of the original questions and your answers. A full set of answers will be issued to all entrants. Thanks are due to Jonathan, Anna, Louise and Susan.
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Logica Armchair Treasure HuntWhere could it be?Where could it be?Where could it be?Where could it be?
On December 17th I willconceal a small box withan l on its lid. Your task isto find it. Clues to itsprecise location can befound in the pages thatfollow.
What do I do?What do I do?What do I do?What do I do?
Take the initial letter ofthe significant word ofeach answer, with namestake the first letter of thesurname unless it makesmore sense to use thepersonal name. Withdouble answers choose theletter that works better.
It’s no secret that thesewill spell out answers toquestions. If they don’ t fitthen you should try to find‘my’ answer, or you couldbe on the right track.
Signs might help pointyou in the right direction,but it can’ t be that easy—the information you wantmay be missing. On theother hand you might liketo consider where Blaircited Major as a politicalexample. But whendecoding ignore accidentalsigns.
How do I enter?How do I enter?How do I enter?How do I enter?
There is no official entryform, just write out yoursolutions legibly—it is notnecessary to providereasons for your answersalthough if we disagreethen without explanationsI can do nothing morethan mark you wrong.And don’ t forget yourfootball goals.
Bonus marks will beawarded for givingconnections with thecentral theme, crackingrelevant codes, the nameof the treasure village andfor finding the box itself.
What are the rewards?What are the rewards?What are the rewards?What are the rewards?
A prize of £60 will beawarded to the first finderof the box. £60 for thehighest score, £40 for thesecond score, £30 for thethird score and £10 for theentrant scoring the lowestscore of at least 300points. No team can winmore than one prize andeach must have a Logica‘captain’ .
The scoring schemereflects the degree ofdifficulty of each question.
What if I find it?What if I find it?What if I find it?What if I find it?
If you locate the treasurebox then please usediscretion whileunearthing it, read theinstructions inside andconceal the box as youfound it.
If you are sure you havefound the right place andthere is nothing there thenplease try to contact me assoon as possible as thebox may have beendisturbed.
When does it end?When does it end?When does it end?When does it end?
Entries must reach me,Rosalind Barden,
byWeds 10th January 1996.
If no-one has found thetreasure then extra clueswill be issued to entrantsonly, please keep a copyof the original questionsand your answers. A fullset of answers will beissued to all entrants.
Thanks are due toJonathan, Anna, Louiseand Susan.
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1. What was the Goons’ first hit?
2. Since 1787, where in Edinburgh should one drink claret?
3. Where were the equestrian events of the 1956 Olympics held?
4. What comes after Argon, Hydrogen and Zinc?
5. Who is portrayed as borrowing a coat from James Dean a long (long) time ago?
6. Which tube station features a lead-coated archer?
7. What is the name given to a feast where human flesh is served?
8. Where is the Corner of the Cretins?
9. What was made illegal in 1733 and legal again in 1860?
10. What animal said what he meant and meant what he said, and what was his name?
11. What is distinctive about the body guard of the leader of G.S.P.L.A.J?
12. Who was the only non-puppet to appear in Spitting Image?
13. What do Arthur Turner, Charles Ross and James Grieve have in common?
14. Which opera begins with the Sweep Song?
15. Corrachadh Mor, Lizard Point, Lowestoft Ness, and where?
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16. What is usually bright orange, not black?
17. Which establishment was the brain child of the real HarryWorthington?
18. What off-stage sound was banned by the LordChamberlain in 1953?
19. Where did Beatrix Campbell Revisit?
20. Who are the Outlaws’ enemies?
21. Which radio comedy series took its title from a DailyExpress headline?
22. Who recorded a century at Cobham in 1788?
23. Which political radical wrote, in a letter to a friend theday before he was fatally injured in a duel, that he haddecided in prison which problems were solvable byradicals?
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24. At 18 what saw its last in July 1975?
25. Starting with a single digit prime number in base 10, add a digit tothe end so that the result is still prime. Continue adding digits inthis manner. What is the largest possible number that you can endup with?
26. What is pseudis paradoxa?
27. Where did Don Touhig succeed?
28. __ D,P,V,C,C, D,B. What is missing and why?
29. What was abolished on 14/6/1966?
30. Conrad is white but called Black. Seymour is black but calledGreen, Paul is modelled on Cary Grant. What is he called?
31. Why did a Trappist monk hijack an Aer Lingus flight?
32. Gin, Whisky, Brandy, Rum, Vodka, what’s missing and why?
33. Which artist ran a pie shop, worked in the office of a gold miningcompany, was once a racing cyclist and took to art as a result ofevening classes?
34. What in London started as Sans Pareil and in New York went on tobe George Abbott?
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35. Who invented the Campaign to Outlaw Contrivedand Outrageous Acronyms ?
36. What was shown on an Imperial Airways flight inApril 1925?
37. What was the ideal commonwealth called?
38. Julia, Portia, Viola & Imogen. Who’s missing?
39. Which film has the greatest number of extras?
40. Who unsuccessfully courted Lady Jones?
41. Who became a dentist to annoy Miss Buss, headteacher?
42. When are Richard and Johan heard together?
43. What do Haydn’s Symphony No 82 in C, Schubert’sPiano Quintet in A D667 and Haydn’s String Quartetin D Op 50, No 6 have in common?
44. Where was the catch phrase “ I’m mad as hell and I’mnot going to take this anymore” introduced?
45. Which composer conducted a group of singersleaning out of a prison window and using atoothbrush for a baton?
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46. Which author falsely described himself as a son of a Governor of theWindward Islands and as having had a job as a deckhand on aJapanese Whaler?
47. Who was known as Big Hearted Martha?
48. Who was saved by growing a miraculous beard?
49. Who survived despite having a rod forced through his cerebral cortexduring a dynamite explosion?
50. Which painting was originally exhibited under the title of ‘Landscape: noon’?
51. What did Roy Dean win in 1970?
52. Who was given 220 goats on a reunion?
53. Where can these cubical houses built on their points be found?
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54. What name was invented at the start of this century for aplay, and was adopted by a player of Synthesisers?
55. Who sang and played guitar in Ugly Rumours?
56. How did Mike Day travel from Lands End to John O’Groats in 1986?
57. Who claimed that Washington is the only city where soundtravels faster than light?
58. Which king couldn’ t poison himself?
59. Who committed suicide by throwing himself into the craterof Mount Etna?
60. What title was given to the man who came second in theCambridge Mathematics Tripos in 1890?
61. What is defined as ‘ long in shape but short in duration’?
62. A conical mountain has a semi-angle of 30Þ. You are 450feet from the pinnacle and are a Roman soldier and want toreach your tent which is 240 feet from the top on the exactother side. How far must you walk by the shortest route?
63. Which stone was once supposed to prevent intoxication?
64. What song was given the working title of ‘ScrambledEggs’?
65. Who shot Andy Warhol?
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66. Who saw his brother rebel against his father, having murdered another brother for the rape ofhis sister, but had the sense to keep out of things until subsequently having a third brother putto death for asking for his father’s concubine?
67. What are June, Jennifer, Julia, Joanna and Jane?
68. Where would you start counting with
69. I have a collection of perfectly cubical building bricks of side 2 inches. If I stack them on topof each other, what is the largest overhang I can achieve without any portion toppling over?
70. What is the name for someone who collects beer mats?
71. Which greengrocer’s son was King of the May in Loxford?
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72. Which American lake’s name means ‘you fish on your side, I’ ll fish on mine and noone fishes in the middle’?
73. If David Jones won the men’s competition, who took the women’s prize at Gawthorpe?
74. If understanding is 1, power is 3, client is 4 and management is 6, what is effective?
75. If the parents are George and Wendy and the children are Sophie, Beverley, Belinda,and the twins one of whom is called Tamsin, what is the other child called?
76. Which poem raises the question of whether there should be capital punishment inschools?
77. What name is given to the game in which players have to say punning phrases wherethe second word sounds like a verb even though it may not be one eg ‘Have you everseen a kitchen sink?’ , ‘Did you know that a tin can?’?
78 At which house in Suffolk did Old Grogram live?
79. How are Oscar Esplá, Vittorio Gui and Georges Adolph Hüe connected?
80. Which autobiographical quartet describes love letters written by the composer between1917 and 1928?
81. Who said ‘ I suppose all the world is sitting in judgement upon the Princess of Wales. Poor woman. I shall support her as long as I can because she is a woman and because Ihate her husband.’?
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82. A perfect square ends with the digits ababababab. Given that b is not 1 nor a,what is a?
83. Who switched on the Blackpool Illuminations in 1977?
84. What connects the Wash, the Thames and the Kennet?
85. On whose life is the song The Shoals of Herring based?
86. What kind of animal did Ripley carry off Nostromo and what was it called?
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87. What was defined as ‘being able to stop after eating onepeanut’ , and by whom?
88. What did Philip Estridge’s team create?
89. Which character did Green Pastures first introduce to theAmerican stage?
90. Who had over 300 children but only one heir?
91. What is missing from C, B, S, F and why?
92. What was otherwise known as Sex Crime?
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You are to play a sequence of ten footballmatches against each other entrant, during thecourse of which you score a total of thirty sixgoals. The first eight matches count the samebut the ninth counts double and the tenthtriple. Indicate how you wish your goals to beallocated between the matches by submitting alist of ten positive integers in order, totallingthirty six. For example, a possible entrywould be 1, 5, 0, 0, 10, 2, 2, 2, 6, 8.
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93. What is the maximum length of a racing horse’s name?
94. Whose work was said to have been described by the New York Times as ‘notfettered by such inhibiting factors as taste’?
95. Who failed the entrance exams for Zurich Polytechnic, had his work returnedfrom Berne University and turned down an offer to be president of Israel?
96. Where would you go in Pakistan to drink a beer?
97. What did the old man of Kinsale have?
98. If John has rods and Felix a bottle, who has a strip?
99. Which architect was run over and killed by a tram in 1926?
100. What do Rossini, Jerry Samuels and Marlon Brando have in common?
101. Where did Abo Slott go on strike because four litres of beer per person per daywas deemed insufficient?
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