Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the June 2023 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, June 2023 answers – Page 1
Q&A
#1 What is a pickle before it becomes a pickle?
#2 Which is further south, Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh City?
#3 What are the stage names of the five Spice Girls?
#4 Which is the only herbivore out of an owl, a rhino and a squid?
#5 Is a zillion a real number?
#6 What is the only body part that can’t repair itself?
#7 In what decade did the original Disneyland open?
#8 What is the surname of King Charles III?
#9 Rank these peppers from mildest to hottest: Carolina reaper, jalapeño, scotch bonnet, poblano
#10 What four colours make up the Brazilian flag?
Answers
#1 A cucumber
#2 Ho Chi Minh City
#3 Baby, Scary, Posh, Sporty and Ginger Spice
#4 Rhino
#5 No
#6 Teeth
#7 1950s
#8 Mountbatten-Windsor
#9 Poblano, Jalapeño, scotch bonnet, Carolina reaper
#10 Green, blue, white, yellow
SUDOKU
4 6 3 9 2 5 7 1 8
1 8 5 7 6 3 4 9 2
9 2 7 1 8 4 6 3 5
5 4 9 3 1 6 8 2 7
6 7 2 8 5 9 1 4 3
8 3 1 2 4 7 5 6 9
2 5 8 4 3 1 9 7 6
7 1 6 5 9 2 3 8 4
3 9 4 6 7 8 2 5 1
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: drenching
Others:
chin, cine, dine, ding, erin, grin, hern, hind,
inch, nerd, nice, nide, nigh, nine, rein, rend,
rind, ring, chine, deign, diner, dinge, genic,
grind, hinge, inner, neigh, nicer, niche, reign,
renin, ceding, chined, cinder, cringe, dinger,
dinner, drench, ending, endrin, engird, enrich,
ginned, ginner, grinch, hinder, hinged, hinger,
inched, incher, niched, nigher, reding, ringed,
chinned, cringed, grinned, herding, rending
KENKEN
2 5 3 4 1
1 3 2 5 4
4 2 1 3 5
5 1 4 2 3
3 4 5 1 2
Puzzle Pages, June 2023 answers – Page 2
COLOUR COORDINATED
Say whether the following colours are closest to red, green, blue or purple
Answers
Azure – Blue
Garnet– Red
Chartreuse – Green
Ultramarine – Blue
Lilac – Purple
Cerise – Red
Malachite – Green
Cobalt – Blue
Amethyst – Purple
Vermillion – Red
WHICH CAME FIRST?
Back by popular demand! Name the event, person or thing that happened first in history
Answers
- The Sopranos, 1999 (Breaking Bad, 2008)
- Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC (Nero, AD 37-68)
- Atlanta, 1996 (Sydney, 2000)
- Stegosaurus, 150 million years ago (T-Rex, 70 million years ago)
- Maserati, 1926 (Lamborghini, 1963)
- Amazon, 1994 (Google search, 1998)
- JFK, 1963 (Che Guevara, 1967)
- Whopper, 1957 (Big Mac 1968)
- American Revolution, 1765-1791 (French Revolution, 1789-1799)
- Star Wars: Episode IV, 1977 (Star Wars: Episode IV, 2005)
MUSICAL MOMENTS
Match the 10 songs with the famous musicals they’re from
Answers
“America” – West Side Story
“When I Grow Up” – Matilda The Musical
“Memory” – Cats
“Non-Stop” – Hamilton
“I Dreamed a Dream” – Les Misérables
“Big Spender” – Sweet Charity
“This Is Me” – The Greatest Showman
“All That Jazz” – Chicago
“Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” – Evita
“The Music of the Night” – The Phantom of the Opera
THE RIDDLER
Try these five rebuses!
#1 LANNNNGUAGE
#2 5Q + 5Q
#3 CHIMADENA
#4 XQQQQQME
#5 A4ID
Answers
#1 Foreign languages
#2 Thank you
#3 Made in China
#4 Excuse me
#5 Foreign aid
Liked our June puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
