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Puzzle Page February 2023 answers – Page 1
Q&A
#1 England and which other country have been runners-up the most times in Rugby World Cup finals?
#2 In the Bible, what happened to Samson when his long hair was cut?
#3 A popular Chinese snack with an incredibly pungent smell is stinky what?
#4 The first music video played on MTV was what song by The Buggles?
#5 How many red balls are there in a game of snooker?
#6 Who was Time’s Person of the Year for 2022?
#7 What word is often abbreviated as “Fn” on a computer keyboard?
#8 What is the currency of Malaysia?
#9 Which famous mass media company celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023?
#10 Which rapper’s real name is Calvin Broadus Jr.?
Answers
#1 France
#2 He lost his strength
#3 Tofu
#4 “Video Killed the Radio Star”
#5 15
#6 Volodymyr Zelensky
#7 Function
#8 Ringgit
#9 Disney (The Walt Disney Company)
#10 Snoop Dogg
SUDOKU
8 4 7 1 5 2 6 9 3
2 9 3 4 7 6 1 5 8
1 5 6 8 9 3 2 4 7
3 2 5 9 6 8 4 7 1
9 8 1 2 4 7 3 6 5
6 7 4 3 1 5 8 2 9
4 6 9 5 8 1 7 3 2
7 1 2 6 3 9 5 8 4
5 3 8 7 2 4 9 1 6
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: confident
Others:
coif, defi, deft, fend, fico, fido, find, fine,
foci, foin, fond, font, info, neif, feint, fetid,
fiend, fined, often, coifed, confit, finned,
foetid, foined, infect, confide, confine
confined
KENKEN
2 4 5 3 1
3 1 2 4 5
4 5 3 1 2
5 3 1 2 4
1 2 4 5 3
Puzzle Page February answers – Page 2
AWESOME FOURSOME
Match the four-letter word with its meaning
jink – to move quickly with sudden turns and shifts
élan – a dash of style or vivacity
orzo – pasta shaped like rice
duck – amphibious military truck
pelf – money gained in a dishonest way
egad – a mild oath
puce – a deep red to dark greyish purple
ibex – wild mountain goat with curved horns
shiv – a knife or other sharp point used as a weapon
guff – empty or nonsense talk
NO A, E, I O or U
Last month it was movies, this time it’s books without vowels! Can you decipher the titles?
Answers:
T PRY LV – Eat Pray Love
GRN GGS ND HM – Green Eggs and Ham
WR ND PC – War and Peace
TH FLT N R STRS – The Fault in Our Stars
DN QXT – Don Quixote
CLCKWRK RNG – A Clockwork Orange
MM – Emma
LRD F TH FLS – Lord of the Flies
NML FRM – Animal Farm
TH D VNC CD – The Da Vinci Code
LESSER-KNOWN CAPITALS
Match the capital city with its country!
Answers:
Dushanba – Tajikistan
Port of Spain – Trinidad and Tobago
Bandar Seri Bagwan – Brunei
Ljubljana – Slovenia
Windhoek – Namibia
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso
Valletta – Malta
Nicosia – Cyprus
Thimphu – Bhutan
Podgorica – Montenegro
THE RIDDLER
Which word is the odd one out? (For bonus marks: what word can you replace it with in order to make the list complete again?)
TIN
MINIM
MILITIA
SIEVE
LINEN
AVOID
Answer:
LINEN. The list contains the Roman numerals from one to six, with each word having a numeral made up of every second letter in the word. So:
tIn = I
mInIm = II
mIlItIa = III
sIeVe = IV
linen = ?
aVoId = VI
Linen doesn’t follow the pattern. The word you would need here is “eve” (eVe).
Liked our February puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
