Puzzle Page answers for May! How did you do?

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages in the May 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!

Answers to Puzzle Page 1

Q&A

#1 What are the two main ingredients of meringue?
#2 Who played the main character in the 2021 film King Richard?
#3 Where in your body would you find the incus, malleus and stapes?
#4 In addition to Myanmar, which four countries share a border with Laos?
#5 If you bumfuzzle someone, do you hug them, ignore them or confuse them?
#6 Who wrote Cujo, Salem’s Lot and Carrie?
#7 How much is seven score and 10?
#8 What car maker has a logo consisting of four linking rings?
#9 What were the first names of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy?
#10 How many bonus points do you get by playing all your tiles in Scrabble?

#1 Egg white and sugar
#2 Will Smith
#3 In your ear
#4 China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia
#5 Confuse them
#6 Stephen King
#7 150
#8 Audi
#9 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
#10 50

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: defending

Others:
deed, dene, died, dine, ding, eden, edge,
feed, fend, find, geed, need, nide, deign, dined,
dinge, edged, ended, fiend, fined, inned, defend,
defied, define, denied, denned, dinged, dinned,
ending, fended, fidged, finned, ginned, indeed,
deeding, defined, deigned, engined, feeding, feigned
fending, needing

KENKEN

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

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

FILM DESCRIPTIONS

Movie taglines, Part 2! Match the film to its slogan

“When he pours, he reigns” – Cocktail
“Everyone has one special thing” – Boogie Nights
“She brought a small town to its feet and a corporation to its knees” – Erin Brockovich
“When he said I do he never said what he did.” – True Lies
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” – The Fly
“The mission is a man” – Saving Private Ryan
“Hear the pictures. See the music.” – Fantasia
“Why so serious?” – The Dark Knight
“From the brother of the director of Ghost” – Naked Gun 33 & ⅓
“He may be dead but he’s the life of the party.” – Weekend at Bernie’s       

ON THE MIC

We’ll tell you the singer, you tell us the band they fronted

Debbie Harry – Blondie
Liam Gallagher – Oasis
Dolores O’Riordan – The Cranberries
Chuck D – Public Enemy
Beyoncé – Destiny’s Child
Simon Le Bon – Duran Duran
Courtney Love – Hole
Harry Styles – One Direction
Stevie Nicks – Fleetwood Mac
Lou Reed – The Velvet Underground

WONDERS OF THE WORLD

Match the ancient or modern world wonder to its country

Christ the Redeemer – Brazil
The Great Wall – China
Hanging Gardens of Babylon – Iraq
The Lighthouse of Alexandria – Egypt
Chichen Itza – Mexico
Colosseum – Italy
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia – Greece
Ruins of Petra – Jordan
Taj Mahal – India
Machu Picchu – Peru

THE RIDDLER

Can you solve these brain teasers?

#1 Susan tells Sandra, “I’ll bet you a dollar, that if you give me two dollars, I’ll give you back three dollars.” Sandra accepts the bet. Who ends up winning money?

#2 It takes 17 minutes to boil an ostrich egg; how long to boil four?

#3 Four brothers, Sanjay, Novak, Digby and Otto were each born in a different one of the months September, October, November and December. One day, Otto says, “Isn’t it a shame that none of our names start with the letter that matches the month we were born?” “Doesn’t bother me much,” replies the brother who was born in September. “That’s easy for you to say,” says Novak. “I would have liked for the initial of my birth month to be a vowel, but unfortunately it isn’t.” In which month was each brother born?

 Answers:

#1 Susan does. Sandra gives her two dollars, but she doesn’t give back three dollars, therefore she loses the bet. She then pays one dollar to Sandra for winning the best, and keeps the other dollar.

#2 Seventeen minutes; you can boil four at the same time

 #3
Digby was born in September
Sanjay was born in October
Otto was born in November
Novak was born in December

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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.