MATHS QUIZ NO. 37

[magpie in the 80's]

Q1 The local church is planning a special Christmas choir for their Christmas Eve service this year. This is a new program for the church and they have high hopes for its success. The conductor has designed a creative program using traditional Christmas carols and the singers have practiced for weeks. Four of the singers have solo parts in four different songs. Determine the full name of each soloist, which part of the choir each is in, and the name of the Christmas carol in which each is singing solo.

NOTE: Female singers cannot be tenor singers and male singers cannot be soprano singers.

1. Sherry Sanford didn't sing the solo part in "Silent Night." Bruce didn't sing the solo part in "O Holy Night."

2. The soprano wasn't Ms. Sawyer.

3. "Joy to the World" was not the solo part that Mr. Smith sang in.

4. The tenor sang solo during "The First Noel." Betty was part of the alto section.

5. Mr. Short wasn't a tenor. The bass singer, who wasn't Tom, didn't perform a solo part in "Silent Night."

6. Bruce's solo part was during "Joy to the World."
Q1
Sherry Sanford......Soprano......O Holy Night
Bruce Short............Bass.........Joy To The World
Betty Sawyer..........Alto..........Silent Night
Tom Smith.............Tenor........The First Noel
Q2 Monday morning, five people fight their way through commuter traffic to the subway station on their way to work. Each person needed to get to a different part of the city for work. Each used a different subway line, conveniently labeled by color, and each line left at a different time. Using the clues and the grid below, determine each person's full name, their profession, which subway line each took, and when each line left (they left in fifteen minute intervals).

1. The lawyer and the person who used the red line were the last to depart. The accountant, who used the yellow line, departed fifteen minutes after Mr. Wilson.

2. Martha, who wasn't the technician, used the blue line, which left fifteen minutes before the subway line that Mr. Swift used.

3. Ms. Patch and the person who used the orange line, were the first and the last, not necessarily respectively, to depart. The person who used the green line left fifteen minutes before the secretary.

4. Patti Toft departed fifteen minutes after Tim.

5. The first subway line departed at 7:00am. The person who took the green line left at 7:45, which left fifteen minutes before the last line departed.

6. Mrs. Mayfair departed before Sue, who was not the lawyer, but after Tim, who wasn't the nurse. Jack was not Mr. Wilson.
Q2
Martha Mayfair........Blue............Nurse..............7:30
Patti Toft.............Yellow.........Accountant........7:15
Tim Wilson............Orange........Technician.........7:00
Sue Patch..............Red............Secretary.........8:00
Jack Swift............Green............Lawyer............7:45

Q3 Four friends participated in a golf match for help raise money for a local charity. The competition between them was steep and each played one of the best games of his life. During the 18-hole match, each friend played very poorly and over par at one hole. But, each also scored a hole-in-one at one hole. Most amazing, these accomplishments all happened at different holes. Determine the full name of each golfer, the hole number for each poor shot and each hole-in-one, and their final scores.

1. John got the first hole-in-one. Mr. Knight had the highest score (which in golf means he lost the match).

2. Steve, whose last name isn't Price, was over par six holes earlier than his hole-in-one shot.

3. Bill placed ahead of Walter but after Mr. Grant.

4. The man who got the last hole-in-one had the lowest score. The man who was over par last got his hole-in-one first.

5. From the highest score of 64 to the lowest score of 57, the friends placed as: the man whose over par game was 12, Bill, the man who got a hole-in-one at the second hole, and Mr. Mann.

6. The man who shot a hole-in-one in the 6th hole had his over par game in the 4th hole.
Q3.
BILL PRICE 4 6 67
JOHN GRANT 16 2 59
STEVE MANN 7 13 57
WALTER KNIGHT 12 8 64

Q4 It's traditional on New Year's Eve to announce your New Year's resolutions, those things that you're going to do better or more of during the new year. The four couples who met at Mark's place for New Year's eve made no exception to this tradition. Each couple announced their resolutions for the New Year, vowing that this year, they would do them. To help them with this goal, each made their resolution a specific, achievable goal, rather than the ethereal "I'll do more" kind of resolution. Determine the full name of each couple and the New Year's resolution each couple announced.

1. Tom and his wife were determined to take their kids camping during the summer this year.

2. Mr. Club, who wasn't Greg, announced that they were planning to exercise at least twice a week. Martha wasn't married to Mark.

3. Sam didn't plan to buy a new home. Carol Diamond didn't plan to lose 30 pounds.

4. Greg wasn't married to Sara.

5. Each couple is represented by: Mr. and Mrs. Spade, the couple who plan to buy a new home, Paula and her husband, and Tom Heart.

6. Sam Spade wasn't married to Sara.
Q4.
Tom and Sara Heart............Camping with kids
Greg and Carol Diamond.......Buy Home
Sam and Martha Spade........Lose 30 pounds
Mark and Paula Club............Exercise twice a week

Q5 Last Friday night, four couples met at a friend's home for an evening of companionship and entertainment to celebrate the coming holidays. The meal was pot luck style, so each couple contributed a dish of food. As it happened, each couple arrived in fifteen minute increments, between 5:30 pm and 6:15 pm. Determine the name of each couple, the time they arrived, and what dish each contributed to the pot luck supper.

1. Mary's last name wasn't Grant.

2. The couple that brought the tuna casserole arrived first, promptly at 5:30 pm. The couple that brought the cheesecake arrived last (Pam's cheesecake was everyone's favorite dessert).

3. Wendy was married to neither Tom nor Mr. Park. The Browns brought the lasagna.

4. The first couple to arrive was Mr. and Mrs. Wish; the second, Wendy Brown and her husband; the third, the couple who brought pasta salad; and the last couple to arrive was Karl and Pam.

5. Cindy, whose last name wasn't Park, didn't bring the pasta salad.

6. Peter, whose last name wasn't Wish, arrived fifteen minutes after the couple who brought tuna casserole for dinner but before the Grants. Bob and his wife Mary didn't bring the cheesecake.
Q5.
Tom and Cindy Wish............Tuna Casserole...........5:30
Peter and Wendy Brown.........Lasagna...................5:45
Bob and Mary Park...............Pasta Salad...............6:00
Karl and Pam Grant...............Cheesecake..............6:15

[Q.]

Q1.

Sherry Sanford......Soprano......O Holy Night
Bruce Short............Bass.........Joy To The World
Betty Sawyer..........Alto..........Silent Night
Tom Smith.............Tenor........The First Noel


Q2.

Martha Mayfair........Blue............Nurse..............7:30
Patti Toft.............Yellow.........Accountant........7:15
Tim Wilson............Orange........Technician.........7:00
Sue Patch..............Red............Secretary.........8:00
Jack Swift............Green............Lawyer............7:45

[magpie in the 80's]

Q1.

Sherry Sanford......Soprano......O Holy Night
Bruce Short............Bass.........Joy To The World
Betty Sawyer..........Alto..........Silent Night
Tom Smith.............Tenor........The First Noel


Q2.

Martha Mayfair........Blue............Nurse..............7:30
Patti Toft.............Yellow.........Accountant........7:15
Tim Wilson............Orange........Technician.........7:00
Sue Patch..............Red............Secretary.........8:00
Jack Swift............Green............Lawyer............7:45

CORRECT Q

[Q.]

Q4.

Tom and Sara Heart............Camping with kids
Greg and Carol Diamond.......Buy Home
Sam and Martha Spade........Lose 30 pounds
Mark and Paula Club............Exercise twice a week


Q5.

Tom and Cindy Wish............Tuna Casserole...........5:30
Peter and Wendy Brown.........Lasagna...................5:45
Bob and Mary Park...............Pasta Salad...............6:00
Karl and Pam Grant...............Cheesecake..............6:15

[magpie in the 80's]

Q4.

Tom and Sara Heart............Camping with kids
Greg and Carol Diamond.......Buy Home
Sam and Martha Spade........Lose 30 pounds
Mark and Paula Club............Exercise twice a week


Q5.

Tom and Cindy Wish............Tuna Casserole...........5:30
Peter and Wendy Brown.........Lasagna...................5:45
Bob and Mary Park...............Pasta Salad...............6:00
Karl and Pam Grant...............Cheesecake..............6:15

CORRECT Q

[magpie in the 80's]

Q1 The local church is planning a special Christmas choir for their Christmas Eve service this year. This is a new program for the church and they have high hopes for its success. The conductor has designed a creative program using traditional Christmas carols and the singers have practiced for weeks. Four of the singers have solo parts in four different songs. Determine the full name of each soloist, which part of the choir each is in, and the name of the Christmas carol in which each is singing solo.

NOTE: Female singers cannot be tenor singers and male singers cannot be soprano singers.

1. Sherry Sanford didn't sing the solo part in "Silent Night." Bruce didn't sing the solo part in "O Holy Night."

2. The soprano wasn't Ms. Sawyer.

3. "Joy to the World" was not the solo part that Mr. Smith sang in.

4. The tenor sang solo during "The First Noel." Betty was part of the alto section.

5. Mr. Short wasn't a tenor. The bass singer, who wasn't Tom, didn't perform a solo part in "Silent Night."

6. Bruce's solo part was during "Joy to the World."
Q1
Sherry Sanford......Soprano......O Holy Night
Bruce Short............Bass.........Joy To The World
Betty Sawyer..........Alto..........Silent Night
Tom Smith.............Tenor........The First Noel
Q2 Monday morning, five people fight their way through commuter traffic to the subway station on their way to work. Each person needed to get to a different part of the city for work. Each used a different subway line, conveniently labeled by color, and each line left at a different time. Using the clues and the grid below, determine each person's full name, their profession, which subway line each took, and when each line left (they left in fifteen minute intervals).

1. The lawyer and the person who used the red line were the last to depart. The accountant, who used the yellow line, departed fifteen minutes after Mr. Wilson.

2. Martha, who wasn't the technician, used the blue line, which left fifteen minutes before the subway line that Mr. Swift used.

3. Ms. Patch and the person who used the orange line, were the first and the last, not necessarily respectively, to depart. The person who used the green line left fifteen minutes before the secretary.

4. Patti Toft departed fifteen minutes after Tim.

5. The first subway line departed at 7:00am. The person who took the green line left at 7:45, which left fifteen minutes before the last line departed.

6. Mrs. Mayfair departed before Sue, who was not the lawyer, but after Tim, who wasn't the nurse. Jack was not Mr. Wilson.
Q2
Martha Mayfair........Blue............Nurse..............7:30
Patti Toft.............Yellow.........Accountant........7:15
Tim Wilson............Orange........Technician.........7:00
Sue Patch..............Red............Secretary.........8:00
Jack Swift............Green............Lawyer............7:45

Q3 Four friends participated in a golf match for help raise money for a local charity. The competition between them was steep and each played one of the best games of his life. During the 18-hole match, each friend played very poorly and over par at one hole. But, each also scored a hole-in-one at one hole. Most amazing, these accomplishments all happened at different holes. Determine the full name of each golfer, the hole number for each poor shot and each hole-in-one, and their final scores.

1. John got the first hole-in-one. Mr. Knight had the highest score (which in golf means he lost the match).

2. Steve, whose last name isn't Price, was over par six holes earlier than his hole-in-one shot.

3. Bill placed ahead of Walter but after Mr. Grant.

4. The man who got the last hole-in-one had the lowest score. The man who was over par last got his hole-in-one first.

5. From the highest score of 64 to the lowest score of 57, the friends placed as: the man whose over par game was 12, Bill, the man who got a hole-in-one at the second hole, and Mr. Mann.

6. The man who shot a hole-in-one in the 6th hole had his over par game in the 4th hole.
Q3.
BILL PRICE 4 6 67
JOHN GRANT 16 2 59
STEVE MANN 7 13 57
WALTER KNIGHT 12 8 64

Q4 It's traditional on New Year's Eve to announce your New Year's resolutions, those things that you're going to do better or more of during the new year. The four couples who met at Mark's place for New Year's eve made no exception to this tradition. Each couple announced their resolutions for the New Year, vowing that this year, they would do them. To help them with this goal, each made their resolution a specific, achievable goal, rather than the ethereal "I'll do more" kind of resolution. Determine the full name of each couple and the New Year's resolution each couple announced.

1. Tom and his wife were determined to take their kids camping during the summer this year.

2. Mr. Club, who wasn't Greg, announced that they were planning to exercise at least twice a week. Martha wasn't married to Mark.

3. Sam didn't plan to buy a new home. Carol Diamond didn't plan to lose 30 pounds.

4. Greg wasn't married to Sara.

5. Each couple is represented by: Mr. and Mrs. Spade, the couple who plan to buy a new home, Paula and her husband, and Tom Heart.

6. Sam Spade wasn't married to Sara.
Q4.
Tom and Sara Heart............Camping with kids
Greg and Carol Diamond.......Buy Home
Sam and Martha Spade........Lose 30 pounds
Mark and Paula Club............Exercise twice a week

Q5 Last Friday night, four couples met at a friend's home for an evening of companionship and entertainment to celebrate the coming holidays. The meal was pot luck style, so each couple contributed a dish of food. As it happened, each couple arrived in fifteen minute increments, between 5:30 pm and 6:15 pm. Determine the name of each couple, the time they arrived, and what dish each contributed to the pot luck supper.

1. Mary's last name wasn't Grant.

2. The couple that brought the tuna casserole arrived first, promptly at 5:30 pm. The couple that brought the cheesecake arrived last (Pam's cheesecake was everyone's favorite dessert).

3. Wendy was married to neither Tom nor Mr. Park. The Browns brought the lasagna.

4. The first couple to arrive was Mr. and Mrs. Wish; the second, Wendy Brown and her husband; the third, the couple who brought pasta salad; and the last couple to arrive was Karl and Pam.

5. Cindy, whose last name wasn't Park, didn't bring the pasta salad.

6. Peter, whose last name wasn't Wish, arrived fifteen minutes after the couple who brought tuna casserole for dinner but before the Grants. Bob and his wife Mary didn't bring the cheesecake.
Q5.
Tom and Cindy Wish............Tuna Casserole...........5:30
Peter and Wendy Brown.........Lasagna...................5:45
Bob and Mary Park...............Pasta Salad...............6:00
Karl and Pam Grant...............Cheesecake..............6:15

QUESTIONS ANSWERED ARE IN RED.
QUESTION UNANSWERED IS IN BLUE.

END OF QUIZ