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Figure 1. Example of a Logic Puzzle.
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Amy takes five classes (including history) at Bimbleman University, each taught by a
different professor. At first she was baffled by the fact that each instructor (including
Professor Bookwerme) has a different eccentric pet theory, but by now she has gotten
used to their digressions. Can you determine each professor's class and theory?
1.
Amy's psychology professor is not Dr. Weissenhimer.
2.
Her philosophy class meets just after that of the professor who claims that
dinosaurs were really aliens who got stuck here on a field trip.
3.
Her political science class meets just before the class with the professor who
insists that Shakespeare's plays were really written by someone named Larry.
4.
Professor Smartalecq believes that gravity is a hoax perpetrated by the hot-air
balloon industry; Professor Noetalle does not teach history.
5.
Amy's psychology professor firmly believes that the lunar landing was faked on a
North Dakota prairie.
6.
As one professor orated about dinosaurs, Amy slipped out to attend her next class,
led by Dr. Eguehedd.
7.
The history professor, who isn't Dr. Weissenhimer, believes that the earth is flat.
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Eguehedd
Noetalle
Smartalecq
Weissenhimer
Dinosaurs
Earth is flat
Gravity
Lunar landing
Shakespeare
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Puzzle is from Scott McKinney, Academia Nuts in Dell Logic Puzzles (Norwalk, CT: Dell Magazines),
Dec. 2001, p. 10. Copyright Dell Logic Puzzles.