Puzzle Pages – answers for January 2024!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the January 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, January 2024 answers – Page 1

Q&A

#1 What nationality is tennis player Jannik Sinner?
#2 What animal is listed first in the English dictionary?
#3 What astronomer is mentioned in Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”?
#4 What cuisine are you eating if you’re having enchiladas?
#5 What two locations were the setting for the first two seasons of White Lotus?
#6 What is the world’s largest sea?
#7 Nephritis is inflammation of which organ?
#8 According to Dr Seuss, what won’t Sam-I-Am eat?
#9 Bhutan is bordered by which two countries?
#10 What is the name for the perimeter of a circle?

Answers:

#1 Italian
#2 Aardvark
#3 Galileo
#4 Mexican
#5 Hawaii and Sicily
#6 The South China Sea
#7 Kidneys
#8 Green eggs and ham
#9 India and China
#10 Circumference

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: toadstool

Others:
dals, dato, doat, dols, dolt, dost, load,
soda, sold, toad, told, datto, dotal, soldo,
stood, tostado

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, January 2024 answers – Page 2

ALL IN JANUARY

Match the event that occurred in January with the year it happened.

Answers:

Premiere of first episode of Family Guy – 1999
Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn – 1533
The Euro enters circulation – 2002
Apple releases first Macintosh computer – 1984
The Beatles’ final rooftop performance – 1969
James Cook names Hawaii the “Sandwich Islands” – 1778
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice published – 1813
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is released – 2009
Beer packaged in a can for the first time – 1935
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated – 1948

HIDDEN COUNTRIES

We’ve given you the meaning of different words; what countries can you spell out with the missing letters?

Answers:

Dangerous fish: P I R A N H A – Iran
Homeless wanderers: V A G A B O N D S – Gabon
Land planted with fruit trees: O R C H A R D – Chad
Chewing gum flavour: S P E A R M I N T – Spain
At the beginning: I N I T I A L L Y – Italy
Used to pluck a guitar: P L E C T R U M – Peru
Storage cabinet: C U P B O A R D – Cuba
Type of watercraft: S T E A M B O A T – Samoa
Organisations that give: C H A R I T I E S – Haiti
Be cruel or mean to someone: M A L T R E A T – Malta

MODEL BEHAVIOUR

Follow the clues and list 10 famous supermodels

Answers:

Host of Project Runway and Halloween dresser extraordinaire – Heidi Klum
Australian model, nicknamed “The Body” – Elle MacPherson
Somalia’s first supermodel, known by one four-letter name – Iman
UK model known for her waifish look in the early 1990s – Kate Moss
German supermodel once engaged to magician David Copperfield – Claudia Schiffer
1960s British model, born Lesley Lawson, with a tree-related nickname – Twiggy
Face of Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007, and navel piercing pioneer – Christy Turlington
Israel’s most successful model, dated Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2000s – Bar Refaeli
Married a Rolling Stone and starred in 1989 film Batman – Jerry Hall
Creator and host of America’s Next Top Model – Tyra Banks