Gigi's Logic Puzzles

Okay, so it's Thanksgiving weekend. Most of you are probably going home to have some sort of food with the folks. Well, in this week's logic problem we've got something similar going on. Six people (three guys, three girls) are living together in a house, and they've decided to host a Thanksgiving dinner. Each of them has invited someone to the dinner, and each person is preparing some sort of food for the dinner. Also, the group has decided they don't want anyone to see the mess they've let the house get into during their first month at school (they probably spent more time in the Bomber than at home). So they divided the chores between them. Can you figure out each person's full name (guys are Kurtis, Leonardo, and Marcel; girls are Jennifer, Natasha, and Persephone; last names are Jameson, Kirnaghan, Lawrence, Madison, Novak, and Phillips), chore they did (dining room, living room, bathroom, dishes, floor, and groceries), food they made (turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, squash, bean salad, and pumpkin pie), and the relationship between them and the person they invited (mother, sister, cousin, boyfriend, best friend, and former roommate)?

1. The six housemates are, in no particular order: Kurtis, Mr. Phillips, someone's cousin Bob, the person who washed the dishes, the person who baked the pumpkin pie, and the only person whose first and last names have the same initial letter.
2. Natasha's boyfriend arrived at the house early to help set up for dinner.
3. The other non-relatives were both invited by guys.
4. Early in the afternoon, Marcel walked into the kitchen without looking, and nearly slipped across the wet floor that Ms. Novak had just mopped.
5. At the dinner, Persephone was asked to serve a second helping of her delicious garlic stuffing to the guest of her housemate Kirnaghan.
6. Leonardo continually interrupted the person who was cleaning and dusting the dining room, to make sure everything was done perfectly.
7. Ms. Madison (not Persephone) sat at the table beside the person (not Leonardo) who cooked the spaghetti squash.
8. The person who prepared the turkey has allergies to dust, so opted instead to wash the dishes.
9. Jennifer's mother arrived at the house after the sister of the person who bought groceries (not Jameson).
10. The person who made the cranberry sauce from scratch, avoided the kitchen when not cooking. (Note: this includes putting groceries away).
11. The person whose friend Beth came from out of town, ate dinner beside the person who cleaned the living room (not Kurtis), and across from the former roommate (Bill) of the person who cleaned the bathroom.
12. Mr. Jameson's housemates asked him to make his zesty bean salad for dinner.

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