Playing Detective: Phylum Level (Sci-Math Week 2021)

• The woman in the right because her posture is good.

• The woman in the left because her stance indicates protectiveness, and children often tend to face their mother.

• The mother is not in the room and these women are his aunts.

An electric train is going south at 98 mph. The wind is blowing northeast. Which direction is the smoke blowing?

• The smoke is blowing northeast in accordance to the wind blowing northeast.

• The smoke is blowing south in accordance to the direction of the train.

• There is no smoke produced.

When I was 10, my brother was half my age. Now I am 50 years old, how old is my brother?

• 45 Years Old.

• 15 Years Old.

• 55 Years Old.

• 25 Years Old.

A construction worker fell off a 100 step ladder but didn’t die. How is that?

• He is wearing a hard hat.

• He fell off the first step, that is why there's no damage.

• He was rushed to the hospital immediately.

A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 25th floor when suddenly he slips and falls. He has no safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall, and yet he is not hurt. How can this be?

• He is inside the building

• The people catched him.

• He has wings.

A detective who was mere days from cracking an international smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While inspecting his last-known location, you find a note: 7718

Currently there are 3 suspects: Bill, John, and Todd. Can you break the detective’s code and find the criminal’s name?

• Todd, because he hated the detective.

• John, because he wanted all the attention that the detective is getting.

• Bill, because the code is an upside down message and the numbers resemble letters.

If 3 peacocks lay 5 eggs in 8 days, how many peacocks will lay 29 eggs in 76 days?

You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It's her anniversary, and you want to give her the cakes you've made. Between your house and her house, you have to cross 5 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.

How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arrive at Grandma's with exactly 2 cakes?

• 2 cakes, when you give the half of the cakes you are carrying to the troll, they will give you back a single cake and then you will end up still having 2 cakes.

• 1 cake, when you give the half of the cakes you are carrying to the troll, they will give you back a single cake and then you will end up having half of the cake.

• 5 Cakes, you need to give 1 cake to each of the troll.

Nicole went to the police to report that someone had stolen her vintage ring. When the police got to her house they notice that the window was broken, there was a total mess inside, and there were dirty footprints on the carpet. But, there were no other signs of a break-in.

The next day, the police arrested Nicole for fraud. Why?

• The size of the dirty footprints are the same with Nicole's shoe size.

• She has mental problems.

• The glass from the broken window was all outside of the house, meaning that it had been broken from the inside.

A chemist is missing and he was last spotted in his lab. The only evidence was a piece of paper that had the names of chemical substances written on it. The substances were nickel, carbon, oxygen, lanthanum, and sulfur. The chemist only had three people come by his lab on the day he was missing: fellow scientist Claire, his nephew Nicolas, his wife, and his friend Marc. The police confronted one person right away and that person admitted what he/she did. They found the chemist who was missing. Who was the reason why the chemist was missing? (one word only)