Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the January 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, January 2025 answers – Page 1
Q&A
- Nearly all fossils are preserved in what type of rock?
- What is Prince Harry’s actual first name?
- Who wrote “I will always love you”, famously sung by Whitney Houston?
- What is a teetotaller?
- What weather pattern is named for the Spanish term for “Little Boy”?
- Who wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh books?
- Name one of the two types of animal that can regrow a lost arm.
- What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
- What number comes next in the Fibonacci Sequence, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 …?
- If you’re travelling in basketball, what are you doing?
Answers
- Sedimentary
- Henry
- Dolly Parton
- Someone who doesn’t drink alcohol
- El Niño
- A.A. Milne
- Starfish or axolotl
- Sicily
- 13
- Taking an illegal step while still holding the ball
SUDOKU
9 3 4 1 2 5 8 6 7
5 7 1 6 8 3 2 4 9
2 6 8 4 7 9 1 3 5
8 1 6 2 3 7 5 9 4
7 4 9 8 5 6 3 1 2
3 2 5 9 1 4 7 8 6
1 9 7 3 6 2 4 5 8
4 8 2 5 9 1 6 7 3
6 5 3 7 4 8 9 2 1
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: hamburger
others:
ager, ague, argh, augh, brag, burg, game, garb,
gear, germ, grab, gram, grub, huge, mage, mega,
rage, urge, argue, auger, barge, burgh, gamer,
grume, huger, marge, rager, urger, arguer, burger,
maugre, bearhug, burgher, umbrage
KENKEN
5 3 2 1 4
3 4 1 5 2
4 2 5 3 1
1 5 4 2 3
2 1 3 4 5
Puzzle Pages, January 2025 answers – Page 2
FIGHT FACTS
Match the famous battle with the conflict it was a part of
Answers:
- Battle of Hastings – Norman Conquest of England
- Battle of Iwo Jima – World War II
- Gallipoli Campaign – World War I
- Battle of Bloody Ridge – Korean War
- Battle of Kandahar – The War in Afghanistan
- Tet Offensive – The Vietnam War
- Battle of the Alamo – Texas Revolution
- Battle of Trafalgar – Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Syracuse – Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Gettysburg – American Civil War
CONFUSING CAPITALS
Only three of the following cities are a national capital. Which ones?
Answers:
Capitals
Bern, Switzerland
Sucre, Bolivia
Canberra, Australia
Non-capitals
Tel Aviv, Israel (actual capital: Jerusalem)
Auckland, New Zealand (Wellington)
Toronto, Canada (Ottawa)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brasilia)
Marrakesh, Morocco (Rabat)
Lagos, Nigeria (Abuja)
Istanbul, Turkey (Ankara)
UNFINISHED ANIMALS
Add a letter or more to the following words to form animals (e.g., “came” –> “camel”). We’ve added the total letter count in brackets.
Answers:
ease (6) – weasel
slot (5) – sloth
edge (8) – hedgehog
jack (6) – jackal
rich (7) – ostrich
hale (5) – whale
womb (6) – wombat
prey (7) – lamprey
land (5) – eland
dill (9) – armadillo
THE RIDDLER
Are you wonderful or woeful at word play? See how you go with these conundrums.
- A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and twelve remains.
- A pizza restaurant has an offer where you can swap five empty pizza boxes for a free pizza. Steph has collected 25 pizza boxes. How many free pizzas can she get?
- I can be seen in water but I’m never wet; what am I?
Answers:
- Dozens
- Six (she can get five pizzas with her 25 boxes, then one more pizza with the remaining five pizzas)
- A reflection
Liked our January puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
