Puzzle Pages – answers for August 2025!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the August 2025 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, August 2025 answers – Page 1

Q&A

1. Which continent has the most countries?
2. What’s the name of Winnie-the-Pooh’s depressed donkey companion?
3. What do you call a word that is spelt the same way forwards and backwards?
4. “Cell Block Tango” is a song from which musical?
5. The hippocampus is a part of the brain named after the Greek word for what sea creature?
6. What is “The Griddy”?
7. Rank these transit systems from oldest to newest: Paris Métro, Hong Kong MTR, New York City Subway, London Underground, Singapore MRT
8. How many holes are played in each of the four golf majors?
9. What are the first names of the four main characters in Seinfeld?
10. What does a farrier do?

Answers:

1. Africa (54, compared to 48 in Asia and 44 in Europe)
2. Eeyore
3. Palindrome
4. Chicago
5. Seahorse
6. A type of dance (featured in the game Fortnite and many other places)
7. London Underground (1863), Paris Métro (1900), New York City Subway (1904), Hong Kong MTR (1979), Singapore MRT (1987)
8. 72
9. Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer
10. Cares for horses’ hooves

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: whispered

others:
drew, ewer, phew, spew, weed, weep, weir,
were, whee, whip, whir, wide, wipe, wire, wise,
wish, wisp, hewed, resew, rewed, sewed,
sewer, shrew, swede, sweep, swipe, weird,
where, wider, wiped, wiper, wired, wised,
dewier, shrewd, spewed, spewer, swiped,
swiper, wished, wisher, wisped, spewier, whisper

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, August 2025 answers – Page 2

YOU’VE GOT THE LOOK

We’ll give you their physical characteristics, you tell us the movie character

Answers:

1. Yoda
2. Shrek
3. Pennywise (not “It” – that’s the name of the film)
4. Marry Poppins
5. Indiana Jones
6. Minion
7. Wonder Woman
8. Neo
9. Harry Potter
10. Woody

IT’S A DATE!

Match the year with the historic event

Answers:

Battle of Hastings – 1066
Nelson Mandela elected president – 1994
Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee – 2002
Start of the Korean War – 1950
First modern Olympics held – 1896
Discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb – 1922
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – 1865
Pluto removed from official list of planets – 2006
Birth of Florence Nightingale – 1820
First Gutenberg Bible printed – 1455

FOOD FAVES IN FICTION

Name the famous historical figures from the clues provided

Answers:

Garfield – Lasagna
Dr Who – Jelly babies
Carrie Bradshaw – Cosmopolitans
ET – Reese’s Pieces
Hannibal Lecter – Chianti
Eric Cartman – Pot pie
Homer Simpson – Donuts
Popeye – Spinach
Augustus Gloop – Chocolate
Remy – Ratatouille

THE RIDDLER

Answers:

1. 9567 + 1085 = 10652
2. Six metres (diameter of table is 5 metres, then add half a metre on each side for overhang)
3. 141

Liked our August puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz