Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the July 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, July 2024 answers – Page 1
#1 What does the title refer to in the 1963 film, The Pink Panther?
#2 What is the second largest city in Japan?
#3 What food do you get by heating maize grains until they burst?
#4 Kylie Minogue won a Grammy this year for what song?
#5 What is “fax” short for?
#6 Which flower is most commonly associated with the Netherlands?
#7 What number is the most current iPhone model?
#8 What term is used for material than can be decomposed by natural
means?
#9 What sport is played by the Florida Panthers?
#10 What type of triangle has sides that are 4cm, 4cm and 5cm long?
Answers:
#1 A diamond
#2 Yokohama
#3 Popcorn
#4 “Padam Padam”
#5 Facsimile
#6 Tulip
#7 15
#8 Biodegradable
#9 Ice hockey
#10 Isosceles triangle
SUDOKU
3 7 6 4 2 8 9 5 1
4 5 8 9 7 1 2 6 3
9 1 2 3 5 6 4 7 8
8 9 5 1 4 7 3 2 6
7 6 3 8 9 2 1 4 5
1 2 4 6 3 5 7 8 9
2 3 1 5 8 4 6 9 7
6 8 7 2 1 9 5 3 4
5 4 9 7 6 3 8 1 2
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: memorable
Others:
able, ambo, bale, balm, bare, beam, bear,
beer, bema, berm, boar, bola, bora, bore,
brae, bree, lamb, lobe, robe, abele, abler,
amber, amble, baler, blame, blare, blear,
bolar, boral, bream, brome, ebola, embar,
ember, labor, lobar, mambo, ombre, rebel,
roble, aerobe, ambeer, ambler, blamer,
boreal, bromal, embalm, emblem, lamber,
marble, member, ramble, earlobe
KENKEN
2 3 5 1 4
5 1 4 2 3
4 2 3 5 1
1 4 2 3 5
3 5 1 4 2
Puzzle Pages, July 2024 answers – Page 2
FIND A WORD
Here are the 15 castles from the find-a-word grid, divided into real and fictional places:
Real: Neuschwanstein, Matsumoto-jo, Warwick, Pena Palace, Amber Fortress, Bodiam, Predjama
Fictional: Grayskull, Gormenghast, Dragonstone, Marlinspike Hall, Warwick, Minas Tirith, Cair Paravel, Wolfenstein, Camelot
BEASTS BY ANOTHER NAME
Match the animal with its scientific name
Answers:
Equus quagga – zebra
Asteroidea – star fish
Canis lupis familiaris – dog
Blattodea – cockroach
Ursus maritimus – polar bear
Ovis aries – sheep
Formicidae – ant
Vulpes vulpes – red fox
Gallus gallus domesticus – hen
Panthera leo – lion
CITY NICKNAMES
Which cities are known by these other handles?
Answers:
Sin City – Las Vegas
The Eternal City – Rome
The Pink City – Jaipur
City of Brotherly Love – Philadelphia
The Little Red Dot – Singapore
The Harbour City – Sydney
Muddy York – Toronto
The City of Canals – Venice
The Big Easy – New Orleans
Fashion Capital of the World – New York, Paris, Milan, London
ANAGRAM ACTION
Each of the following six-letter words has only one possible anagram; what is it?
Answers:
sorbet – strobe
rumble – lumber
unsees – ensues
nested – tensed
taxers – extras
torpid – tripod
plumed – lumped
delish – shield
darted – traded
seizer – resize
THE RIDDLER
Return of the rebus!
IDEJEHT = Return of The Jedi
NEAFRIENDED = A friend in need
JOBINJOB = in between jobs
ANOTHER ONE THING = one thing after another
INSPIBRED = be inspired
ECNALG = backward glance
Liked our July puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
