Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the April 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 Pages, April 2023 answers – Page 1
Q&A
#1 What is the largest bone in the human body?
#2 Which male pop artist’s 2022 album opens with “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”?
#3 In an email, what does BCC stand for?
#4 Which dog breed is the famous cartoon character Snoopy?
#5 What does “con carne” mean in the dish chilli con carne?
#6 Who is currently second in line to the British throne?
#7 What is the sum of the angles of a triangle?
#8 Who ate the first meal in space?
#9 What song is Phoebe from Friends best known for?
#10 Who picked a peck of pickled peppers?
Answers
#1 Femur
#2 Harry Styles
#3 Blind carbon copy
#4 Beagle
#5 “with meat”
#6 Prince George
#7 180 degrees
#8 Yuri Gagarin (a tube of pureed meat followed by a tube of chocolate sauce)
#9 “Smelly Cat”
#10 Peter Piper
SUDOKU
5 7 8 2 3 1 6 4 9
9 2 1 6 8 4 3 5 7
3 4 6 7 9 5 8 2 1
8 5 7 4 1 6 2 9 3
2 3 9 8 5 7 4 1 6
1 6 4 3 2 9 5 7 8
7 8 5 9 6 2 1 3 4
6 9 2 1 4 3 7 8 5
4 1 3 5 7 8 9 6 2
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: workplace
Others:
acre, alec, arco, cake, calk, calo, cape, capo,
care, cark, carl, carp, cawl, cero, clap, claw, clew,
clop, coal, coke, cola, cope, core, cork, cowl, crap,
craw, crew, crop, crow, lace, lack, lock, orca, pace,
pack, peck, pock, race, rack, reck, rock, wack,
caper, carol, ceorl, claro, clear, clerk, cloak, copal,
coper, copra, coral, cower, crake, crape, crawl,
creak, croak, lacer, ocker, ocrea, pacer, place,
recap, wacko, wrack, wreck, calker, carpel, clawer,
coaler, cowpea, locker, oracle, packer, parcel, placer,
relock, repack, polacre, warlock, lacework
KENKEN
4 2 1 3 5
1 4 5 2 3
3 5 2 1 4
2 3 4 5 1
5 1 3 4 2
Puzzle Pages, April 2023 answers – Page 2
FIND A WORD
Answers to capital city quiz in Find A Word:
Ottawa – Canada
Brussels – Belgium
Brazzaville – Republic of the Congo
Accra – Ghana
Addis Ababa – Ethiopia
Wellington – New Zealand
Tallinn – Estonia
Canberra – Australia
Freetown – Sierra Leone
Ulaanbaatar – Mongolia
Vienna – Austria
Andorra La Vella – Andorra
Valletta – Malta
Nassau – Bahamas
Amman – Jordan
WORDS WITH ‘AP’
To mark April, find 10 words ending with “ap” from these definitions; we’ve given the letter count for each
Answers
Goo that comes out of a tree (3) – sap
Eminem and Cardi B do this (3) – rap
Last word of Cambodian town with great temples (4) – Reap
Opposite of pricey (5) – cheap
The fold of loose skin hanging from a cow’s throat (6) – dewlap
Decorative disc on the wheel of a car (6) – hubcap
A baby is born without one of these (7) – kneecap
A good golfer has a low one of these (8) – handicap
Device for dealing with a rodent problem (9) – mousetrap
Loud weather event that scares pets (11) – thunderclap
ANIMAL LOGOS
Match the company with the critter that features in its branding
Lamborghini – Bull
WWF – Panda
Lacoste – Crocodile
HMV – Dog
Swarovski – Swan
Bacardi – Bat
Porsche – Horse
NBC – Peacock
Alfa Romeo – Snake
Linux – Penguin
NAME GAME
Match the famous classical composers with their first names
Mozart – Wolfgang Amadeus
Stravinsky – Igor
Wagner – Richard
Bach – Johann Sebastian
Verdi – Giuseppe
Debussy – Claude
Beethoven – Ludwig van
Tchaikovsky – Peter Ilich
Puccini – Giacomo
Mahler – Gustav
THE RIDDLER
Try these four maths-based riddles!
#1 What number do you get if you multiply all the numbers on a telephone number pad? (Answer as quickly as possible!)
#2 What city is three-sevenths chicken, two-thirds cat and one-half goat?
#3 I’m a three-digit number. My tens digit is four more than my one’s digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
#4 The day before yesterday I was 27, and next year I’m turning 30. What day is my birthday?
Answers:
#1 Zero, because one of the numbers is zero, and anything multiplied by zero is zero.
#2 Chicago (three-sevenths of “chicken” is “chi”, two-thirds of “cat is “ca” and one-half of goat is “go”)
#3 195
#4 31 December. If the person is 28 on 1 January, then the day before yesterday (30 December), they were 27. This year, they turn 29 (on 31 December), and then next year they turn 30.
Liked our April puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
