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Puzzle Page Answers for July – Page 1

Q&A

#1 Which ocean surrounds the Maldives?
#2 What do David Tennant, Tom Baker and Jodie Whittaker have in common?
#3 How many sides in total would two hexagons, two pentagons and two triangles have?
#4 What is the meaning of the Latin phrase “caveat emptor”?
#5 Invented in 1979, which board game did Time magazine once call “the biggest phenomenon in game history”?
#6 What sport does Australian Minjee Lee play?
#7 What is a bouquet garni?
#8 What type of poem is known for its 5-7-5 pattern?
#9 Which singer names all her albums after the age that she was when she wrote them?
#10 Finish the words in the acronym SCUBA: Self-Contained…?

Answers

#1 The Indian Ocean
#2 They have all played the Doctor in Doctor Who
#3 28
#4 “Let the buyer beware”
#5 Trivial Pursuit
#6 Golf
#7 A bunch of herbs added to food in cooking
#8 Haiku (five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third)
#9 Adele (her four albums to date are 19, 21, 25 and 30)
#10 Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: childhood

Others:
clod, coho, coil, cold, cool, dido, diol, dodo,
hold, hood, idol, lido, loch, loci, loco, loid, odic,
olio, cholo, dolci, hooch

KENKEN

4 6 3 5 1 2
5 3 1 2 6 4
1 2 4 6 5 3
2 1 6 4 3 5
6 4 5 3 2 1
3 5 2 1 4 6

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

FIND A WORD

The 15 words relating to “direction” that were hiding in the grid were as follows:

Around
Between
Clockwise
Diagonal
Left
West
Vertical
Upward
North
Rotate
Outside
Right
Lower
Forward
Horizontal

WHAT’S YOUR POISON?

Match the 10 alcoholic drinks with their key ingredients

Tequila: Agave
Beer: Hops
Scotch: Barley
Calvados: Apples
Sake: Rice
Gin: Juniper berries
Bourbon: Corn
Kirsch: Cherries
Rum: Sugarcane
Ouzo: Anise

SPELL CHECKER

Which 10 words from this list have the correct spelling?

Correct spelling:

Accommodate
Embarrass
Glamorous
Wherever
Threshold
Conscience
Committee
Resistance
Privilege
Parallel

OLD NAME, NEW NAME

Match the former names of the 10 cities or countries with their new titles

New Amsterdam: New York
New Holland: Australia
Ceylon: Sri Lanka
Constantinople: Istanbul
Edo: Tokyo
Southern Rhodesia: Zimbabwe
Batavia: Jakarta
Formosa: Taiwan
The Friendly Islands: Tonga
Madras: Chennai

THE RIDDLER

Chicken or the egg?

One day, a scholar turned up at the court of the Emperor Akbar, wishing to the test the renowned wisdom of the royal advisor Birbal. The scholar said to Birbal, “Do you wish to answer 100 easy questions, or just a single difficult question?”

Neither Akbar nor Birbal was in the mood to entertain the scholar for too long, so Birbal answered, “You can ask me one difficult question.”

The scholar then said, “Very well, here it is: Which came first into the world, the chicken or the egg?”

Birbal took no time in answering confidently: “The chicken!” A confident smile broke out on the scholar’s face. “How do you know?” he asked. What was Birbal’s reply?

Answer

Birbal replied, “We agreed that you would ask only one question, and you have already asked it, so we are done!”

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Shamus Sillar

While he has worked as a magazine editor since 2003, Shamus also has a PhD in Roman History (useful!) and is a published author. He writes mostly on travel but also covers food, history, sport, trivia and more, across Expat Living’s publications and websites in Singapore and Hong Kong.