Puzzle Page answers for January 2023!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the January 2023 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 January 2023 answers – Page 1

Q&A

#1 Which is longer in a human, the small intestine or large intestine?
#2 Who recounted amusing hiking stories in his 1998 book A Walk in the Woods?
#3 Is a baby armadillo called a pup, a jillo or joey?
#4 Which world flag includes an image of a Raggiana bird-of-paradise?
#5 What word means “fear of fire”?
#6 Which came first, Oxford University or the Aztec Empire?
#7 Approximately how much of Earth is covered by water: 61, 71 or 81 percent?
#8 What is the first name of Julia Roberts’ older brother, also an actor?
#9 What is a playing period in a game of polo called?
#10 Which rock group sang “My Generation” in 1965?

Answers

#1 Small intestine (around 7 metres on average, compared to 1.5 for the large intestine)
#2 Bill Bryson
#3 Pup
#4 Papua New Guinea
#5 Pyrophobia
#6 Oxford University
#7 71 percent
#8 Eric
#9 Chukka
#10 The Who

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: wonderful

Others:
down, drew, enow, flew, flow, fowl, frow,
owed, weld, wend, wolf, word, wore, worn,
wren, dowel, dower, drown, endow, flown,
frown, lowed, lower, owned, owner, rewon,
rowed, rowel, unwed, world, would, wound,
downer, flowed, flower, fowled, fowler,
reflow, undrew, woeful, wolfed, wolfer,
wonder, frowned, rewound, underflow

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Page January answers – Page 2

IN THREES

Match the three-letter words with their meanings

Answers:

kop – bank of terracing at a football field
ama – Japanese pearl-diver
cep – edible brown mushroom
col – depression or pass in a mountain range
lar – local god of a house
gig – small two-wheeled horse carriage
roc – enormous legendary Arabian bird
gad – to wander about in pursuit of pleasure
zho – hybrid of a yak and a cow
dag – dirty tatted tuft of sheep’s wool

NO A, E, I O or U 

The following film titles are missing their vowels – can you decipher them? (E.g., TTNC = Titanic)

Answers:

JMNJ – Jumanji
TP GN – Top Gun
THLM ND LS – Thelma and Louise
GLDTR – Gladiator
TH SCL NTWRK – The Social Network
TY STRY – Toy Story
SLMDG MLLNR – Slumdog Millionaire
GDFLLS – Goodfellas
FRG – Fargo
L L LND – La La Land

SPORTY TYPES

Match the person with the sport they excelled at

Answers:

Ronda Rousey – MMA
Tony Hawk – Skateboarding
Michelle Kwan – Figure skating
Eddy Merckx – Cycling
Phil Taylor – Darts
Lindsey Vonn – Skiing
Wayne Gretzky – Ice Hockey
Magnus Carlsen – Chess
Nigel Mansell – Formula 1
Heather McKay – Squash

THE RIDDLER

On a cold, snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was sitting in front of the fire in his house. Suddenly, a snowball hit his window and smashed through the glass. Holmes raced up to look out the window, and was just quick enough to see three boys from the Crimson family – John, Mark and Paul – racing around a corner. The following day, Holmes received a note under his door that read:

 ? Crimson. He broke your window

Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes approach about the incident?

Answer: The note can be read as “Question Mark Crimson. He broke your window”, so Holmes should talk to Mark.

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

20 quirky facts about Singapore
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