#128 Tournament headache

Four hungover footballing mathematicians groaned in unison. 鈥淎nyone remember who won yesterday鈥檚 tournament between our four teams?鈥� asked Ranko, the Red Star Belgradient goalkeeper. Ignacio, the Integer Milan striker, raised his hand feebly. 鈥淚 remember that we each played each other once. Three points for a win. One for a draw. And all of the scorelines were different.鈥�
Tom, the Tottingup Hotspur defender, opened one eye. 鈥淎re 1-0 and 0-1 different or the same?鈥� 鈥淭hey鈥檙e the same, obviously!鈥� said Patrick, of PSV Eigenvector, adding: 鈥淚 remember that every team scored a different number of goals in each of their games.鈥�
鈥淏ut never more than two!鈥� said Ranko. 鈥淎nd I know my team didn鈥檛 concede a goal.鈥� Patrick pulled a silver medal out of his pocket. 鈥淎nd we must have finished second,鈥� he deduced.
鈥淚 know which game ended 2-2!鈥� said all four at once.
Which was it?
#127 Brahms and Liszt
Solution
It is possible to construct jigsaw-like pieces for the conditions and then see the possible ways they can fit together. The notion that only one item is correctly positioned gives the following unique solution:
First name Surname Composer
1 Claudio Grump Liszt
2 Agnes Iddyhat Khachaturian
3 Edgar Hobble Mozart
4 Dolores Jabber Schubert
5 Bjorn Flop Prokofiev
Quick quiz #116
1 How many baobab species are found in the Adansonia genus?
2 Who first described the behaviour of chromosomes in the cell nucleus during mitosis?
3 In what year was the electric chair first used to execute someone?
4 What name is given to the central shaft of a bird鈥檚 feather?
5 Quasars and Seyfert galaxies are part of what class of astronomical objects?
Answers
1 Eight
2 Walther Flemming
3 1890
4 The rachis
5 Active galactic nuclei
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