Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the April 2024 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 2024 answers – Page 1
#1 What is the most consumed alcoholic drink in the world?
#2 Who rapped this line: “My money don’t jiggle jiggle, it folds”?
#3 When Amazon launched in 1995, what products did it sell?
#4 How many dots are there on a pair of dice?
#5 Simone Biles is a champion in what sport?
#6 A hurricane is the same thing as a typhoon, just originating in a different place: true or false?
#7 What city is home to Palm Jumeirah?
#8 North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm are the names of what?
#9 What do you call the process of light changing direction when passing through a lens?
#10 How many ghosts chase Pac-Man at the start of the game?
Answers:
#1 Beer
#2 Louis Theroux
#3 Books
#4 42
#5 Gymnastics
#6 True
#7 Dubai
#8 The children of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
#9 Refraction
#10 Four
SUDOKU
7 1 9 4 6 2 5 8 3
4 2 8 5 1 3 6 7 9
3 5 6 7 8 9 4 1 2
1 4 7 9 2 8 3 5 6
8 9 5 6 3 4 7 2 1
6 3 2 1 5 7 8 9 4
5 6 3 8 9 1 2 4 7
9 8 4 2 7 6 1 3 5
2 7 1 3 4 5 9 6 8
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: institute
Others:
nest, nett, sett, site, snit, sten, stun, suet, suit, tein,
tent, tie, tint, tune, unit, inset, stein, stent, stint, stunt,
suite, tutti, unite, unset, untie, intuit, sitten, tiniest,
unitise, nittiest, nuttiest, tintiest
KENKEN
1 2 5 4 3
4 5 1 3 2
2 3 4 1 5
5 4 3 2 1
3 1 2 5 4
Puzzle Pages, April 2024 answers – Page 2
HEAD OR FEET?
Which five of the following clothing items from around the world are hats, and which are shoes? (Bonus marks for guessing all of their countries of origin!)
Answers:
Klompen – SHOE (The Netherlands)
Espadrille – SHOE (Spain)
Akubra – HAT (Australia)
Winklepicker – SHOE (UK)
Makarapa – HAT (South Africa)
Geta – SHOE (Japan)
Chupalla – HAT (Chile)
Tsarouchi – SHOE (Greece)
Fez – HAT (Morocco)
Tuque – HAT (Canada)
4-LETTER FILMS
What four-letter movie titles are indicated by the following clues?
Answers:
Hemsworth’s hammer – Thor
Pacino vs De Niro at dinner – Heat
Pixar film with Lightning McQueen – Cars
Pig that thinks it’s a dog – Babe
A desert war over “spice” – Dune
Hippie musical becomes 1979 film – Hair
You’re gonna need a bigger boat – Jaws
Scorsese in a Paris train station – Hugo
A fake-film rescue plot in Iran – Argo
Escaping a rabid St Bernard – Cujo
LOOK AT THE SCOREBOARD!
Match the typical-looking score with the sport being played
Answers:
7-6 6-2 5-7 6-1 – tennis
2:11:39 – marathon
11-8, 11-5, 11-9 – table tennis
0-1 – football
1-14 (17) 2-10 (16) – Gaelic football
9(dec)/296 – cricket
10-9, 10-9, 10-8 – boxing
117-98 – basketball
68 69 72 65 – golf
11-7-73 6-3-39 – Australian rules football
THE RIDDLER
Anagram action
Can you unscramble the following five phrases by using the anagrams as clues, along with our additional hints on the right?
Answers:
Old West Action (film director) – CLINT EASTWOOD
Built to Stay Free (monument) – STATUE OF LIBERTY
Mr Mojo Risin’ (1960s singer) – JIM MORRISON
Moon Starers (occupation) – ASTRONOMERS
Willie Makes a Phrase (writer) – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Liked our April puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz