Puzzle Page answers for December 2022!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the December issue of Expat Living magazine. If you love quiz questions and puzzles and you’d like to make sure you get them every month, don’t forget to subscribe to Expat Living!

Puzzle Page December answers – Page 1

Q&A

#1 Who is the current Prime Minister of New Zealand?
#2 What colour and shape is a stop sign in most countries around the world?
#3 The famous line “You talkin’ to me?” comes from which 1970s film?
#4 Entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar founded which e-commerce business in 1995?
#5 What does a funambulist walk on?
#6 Chartreuse is a colour between green and what other colour?
#7 What do you call the popular Korean dish of mixed riced, meat and vegetables, often served in a stone bowl?
#8 Which famous 16th-century literary work begins with the line, “’Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona…”
#9 Is a pasodoble a type of ancient coin, cooking sauce or military march?
#10 Dogs sweat mostly through which part of their body?

Answers

#1 Jacinda Ardern
#2 Red octagon
#3 Taxi Driver
#4 eBay
#5 A tightrope
#6 Yellow
#7 Bibimbap
#8 Romeo and Juliet
#9 Military march
#10 Their paws

SUDOKU

5 8 4  2 6 1  7 9 3
2 3 9  7 8 5  4 6 1
6 7 1  3 9 4  8 2 5

7 4 6  5 1 3  9 8 2
8 2 5  9 4 6  1 3 7
9 1 3  8 7 2  5 4 6

1 6 7  4 3 9  2 5 8
4 5 8  6 2 7  3 1 9
3 9 2  1 5 8  6 7 4

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: therefore

Others:
fere, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, here, hero,
herr, hoer, orfe, reef, rete, rote, tore, tree,
ether, fetor, forte, forth, freer, frere, froth,
other, refer, retro, there, three, throe, ferret,
hereof, hereto, hetero, reefer, retore, rhetor,
frother, thereof

KENKEN

5 3 2 4 1
2 4 1 5 3
3 2 4 1 5
1 5 3 2 4
4 1 5 3 2

Puzzle Page December answers – Page 2

FIND A WORD

Answers:

Eiffel Tower – Paris
Western Wall – Jerusalem
Burj Khalifa – Dubai
Acropolis – Athens
Great Pyramid – Cairo
Leaning Tower – Pisa
Taj Mahal – Agra
Bondi Beach – Sydney
Marina Bay Sands – Singapore
Angkor Wat – Siem Reap
Space Needle – Seattle
Forbidden City – Beijing
Big Ben – London
Colosseum – Rome
Statue of Liberty – New York

WING & A PRAYER

Match the 10 birds with their collective nouns

Murder – Crows
Exaltation – Larks
Flamboyance – Flamingos
Kettle – Hawks
Parliament – Owls
Committee – Vultures
Unkindness – Ravens
Gulp – Cormorants
Ostentation – Peacocks
Murmuration – Starlings

LETTER SWAP

Change any two letters in each word to form a country (so, “seven” becomes Yemen)

Answers:

Equator – Ecuador
Brutal – Bhutan
Guru – Peru
Beside – Belize
Appal – Nepal
Spare – Spain
Taboo – Gabon
General – Senegal
Tuna – Cuba
Orange – France

TWO-WORD QUIZ

We’ve done films and TV shows; this time, name the children’s books from the short clues below

Golden ticket – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mississippi raft – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mischievous bunny – The Tale of Peter Rabbit
My precious! – The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings
Starving grub – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Feline headwear – The Cat in the Hat
Katniss volunteers – The Hunger Games
Wizard school – The Harry Potter series
Rabbit hole – Alice in Wonderland
Hundred Acre – Winnie-the-Pooh

THE RIDDLER

#1 How can you put an egg that’s 5cm wide into a bottle with a mouth that’s only 2cm wide without using a flame and without damaging the bottle in any way?

#2 Using only addition, add eight 8s to get the number 1,000.

#3 A spider is given $40, a human is given $10 and a bee is given $30. Based on this information, how much money is given to a cat?

Answers:

#1 We didn’t mention the egg had to be intact, so poke holes in the egg and drain the contents into the bottle, then crumble up the egg shell and add it to the bottle too.

#2 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000

#3 $20 ($5 per leg)

Liked our December puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz