20 December 2019

Fiendishly difficult Christmas quiz


A sample question from the Royal Statistical Society's annual challenge.  Here are some samples from previous years:

Here's a good puzzle for you (2016)

For puzzle enthusiasts - updated with answers (2017)

Those should keep you busy while I go do some last-minute Christmas shopping this morning.  I'm going to defer tackling the RSS quiz this year (looks way too hard for me) and will instead await the release of the King William's College General Knowledge Paper this weekend (to be published in The Guardian).

4 comments:

  1. AaronSDecember 21, 2019 at 9:29 PM

    All I can tell you is that 2001 is divisible by 29.

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    1. MinnesotastanDecember 21, 2019 at 9:52 PM

      I noticed that too, but I checked and it has more than 29 chapters.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 22, 2019 at 10:06 AM

    This is just cruel

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  3. MinnesotastanFebruary 28, 2020 at 10:48 AM

    Thank you for the update. In retrospect, it's a good thing I gave up early.

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