[I] For 20 points. From the dust-jacket of Bloodbath at Balliol by Douglas Macabre:
"Chillier than Gaudy Night , more haunting than The Haunted Bursary , shorter than War and Peace !
Trapped in Balliol College chapel are five senior college officers and the corpse of the Chaplain, murdered in stealth by one of them! As the hours pass, each forms and propounds a theory!
The Senior Tutor accuses the Bursar! The Bursar accuses The Master, who accuses the Steward! The Steward suspects the Bursar or the Master! The Dean claims that the Master is innocent!
Which of these five theories is right? That would be telling! How many of them are right? To reveal even that would give the game away completely! This is Macabre at his very best, a chilling reminder for all those who have ever spent a night in Chapel with a clammy corpse! "
No doubt you'll be keen to miss out on this one. But perhaps you would like to work out who killed the Chaplain.
[J] For 24points. Chalk, Dust and Fustian are the Balliol Fellows who tutor Greek, History and Latin. Each affects eccentric headgear: one wears a puggree, one a shako and one a tarboosh.
The historian's hat is bigger than Chalk's. The tarboosh is bigger than the graecist's hat. The puggree is bigger than Dust's. And the graecist's hat is at least as big as the latinist's.
Who teaches what and wears which?
[K] For 16 points. Locke, Stock and Barrel are Balliol's Master, Bursar and Chaplain. Locke is the Chaplain's father-in-law and Stock is the Master's son-in-law. They both cried when Barrel married the Bursar's daughter. None of them has been married more than once.
Who is what?
[L] For 32 points. “I've forgotten the college security code”, whined the Dean. “I've tried all ten of these, but none of them seems to work”. And he produced a grubby scrap of paper listing his attempts:-
Jobsworth, as always, was helpfulness itself. “I can't be responsible for telling you the code, sir, because it's confidential, as you well know. But I will tell you that each of your tries contains exactly one of the digits in its correct position.”0 3 9 6 2
1 8 3 9 12 4 7 5 1
3 1 8 2 5
4 9 7 0 0
5 2 0 2 5
6 8 4 7 7
7 3 6 6 0
8 7 0 6 3
9 6 0 3 4
The Dean, alas, is not very good at logic. Can you help him?
As always, solutions should aim for accuracy, rigour, brevity, elegance and wit. The Editor's decision is final.
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