Puzzle Pages, February 2021: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the February 2021 issue of Expat Living. If you missed the puzzles or you’d like to make sure you get them in each issue from now, don’t forget to subscribe!

Answers to Puzzle Page 1

Q&A

#1 Is the sperm whale the loudest, longest or heaviest animal in the world?
#2 Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
#3 Who is directing the upcoming documentary film, The Beatles: Get Back?
#4 Where would you find the Sea of Tranquillity?
#5 What colour is a Himalayan poppy?
#6 Armando Dippet, Nymphadora Tonks and Viktor Krum are all characters in which book series?
#7 What is the flavour of Cointreau?
#8 When was the ebook invented: 1971, 1981 or 1991?
#9 Which came first, Spam the brand, or “spam” the word?
#10 Is Shiatsu the name of a meditation technique, a cat breed or a city in Taiwan?

#1 Loudest
#2 Bishop
#3 Peter Jackson
#4 Moon
#5 Blue
#6 Harry Potter
#7 Orange
#8 1971
#9 The brand (the luncheon meat Spam was invented in the 1930s; spam, the term related to receiving unsolicited messages, was coined after a Monty Python television skit in the 1970s)
#10 Meditation technique

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: reflexive

Others:

ever, fere, fire, flir, free, leer, lier, lire, reef, reel, reif, riel, rife, rile,
rive, veer, vier, virl, eerie, elver, ervil, fever, filer, fiver, fixer, fleer,
flier, lever, lifer, liver, livre, reeve, refel, refix, reive, revel, rifle, vexer,
viler, eelier, eviler, exiler, feeler, ferlie, levier, liefer, liever, refeel,
refile, reflex, releve, relief, relive, revile, veiler, relieve

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Page 2

NUMBER ONES

Match the chartbuster with the year of its release

1966               “Help!”, The Beatles
1978               “Night Fever”, Bee Gees
1983               “Billie Jean”, Michael Jackson
1987               “Walk Like An Egyptian”, The Bangles
1997               “Wannabe”, Spice Girls
2009               “Boom Boom Pow”, Black Eyed Peas
2011               “Rolling In The Deep”, Adele
2016               “Work”, Rhianna
2019               “Old Town Road”, Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
2020               “Blinding Lights”, The Weeknd

ANAGRAMS

Find the sporting terminology in the following anagrams

lovely              volley
flog                  golf
swelter           wrestle
sinning           innings
kiss                 skis
damsel           medals
early               relay
impure            umpire

QUICKIE

Which word am I?

My first two letters are a male, my first three letters are a female, my first four letters are a great person, my first six letters are a drug, and as a whole I’m a great woman.

Answer: Heroine

MOVIE QUOTES

• “There’s no place like home.” (1939) The Wizard of Oz
• “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” (1972) The Godfather
• “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” (1987) Dirty Dancing
• “If it bleeds, we can kill it.” (1987) Predator
• “That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.” (1995) Babe
• “Wilsoooooooon!” (2000) Cast Away
• “I wish I knew how to quit you.” (2005) Brokeback Mountain
• “I’m just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.” (2006) The Devil Wears Prada
• “I’m already pregnant. So, what other shenanigans could I get myself into?” (2007) Juno
• “I know who I am. I’m the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!” (2008) Tropic Thunder

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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.