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Puzzle Pages – answers for March 2023!

27th February 2023 by Shamus Sillar 4 Min Read

https://expatliving.sg/puzzle-pages-answers-for-march-2023/

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the March 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, March 2023 answers – Page 1

Q&A

#1 Who did Will Smith slap at the 94th Academy Awards?
#2 What’s the name of the green pigment found in plants?
#3 In which city would you find Khao San Road?
#4 Which paper size is bigger, A4 or B4?
#5 Starting with “H”, what is the name of the oath of ethics traditionally taken by doctors?
#6 What’s the name of the geological phenomenon that results in a cavity appearing in the ground?
#7 What was the most-watched show on Netflix in 2022? (Its total viewing time was 52 billion minutes, equivalent to 98,000 years…)
#8 What is the square root of 121?
#9 Tahini is made from which seeds?
#10 The opposite sides of a standard dice always add up to what number?

Answers

#1 Chris Rock
#2 Chlorophyll
#3 Bangkok
#4 B4
#5 Hippocratic
#6 Sinkhole
#7 Stranger Things
#8 Eleven (fans of answer #7, see what we did there?)
#9 Sesame
#10 Seven

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: infatuate

Others:
ante, anti, aunt, etna, etui, fate, feat, feta,
fiat, neat, nett, taut, teat, tent, tine, tint,
tufa, tuft, tuna, tune, unit, aetat, antae,
entia, faint, feint, tafia, taint, taunt, tinea,
titan, unfit, unite, untie, attain, attune, auntie,
fatten, nutate, taenia, tauten, tenuti

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, March 2023 answers – Page 2

FIND A WORD

Answers:

Keep cup: reusable cup, often for coffee
Adorkable: unfashionable or socially awkward in a way regarded as appealing
Porch pirate: someone who steals delivered packages from the front of people’s houses
Galentine’s Day: a celebration (on 13 February) of platonic friendships among women
Air fryer: countertop convection oven
Yeet: used to express surprise, approval, or excited enthusiasm
First gentleman: husband or male partner of the chief executive of a country or jurisdiction
Tallywacker: male appendage, or a stupid, annoying, or otherwise objectionable person (especially a man)
Captain Obvious: someone who makes superfluous or obvious statements
Final girl: stock female character who survives to defeat or evade the attacker after the other characters have been killed
Shrinkflation: reducing a product’s amount or volume per unit while continuing to offer it at the same price
Pinkie promise: promise made while linking little fingers with another person and regarded as especially binding or sincere
Dumbphone: basic mobile phone that lacks the advanced functionality characteristic of a smartphone
Influencer: a person who can influence potential buyers of a product or service by promoting them on social media
Side hustle: work or a job that you get paid for doing in addition to doing your main job

ONE-LETTER QUIZ

Name the single letter that each clue is referring to

#1 The character who supplies James Bond with his gadgets – Q
#2 First person pronoun – I
#3 Series of vitamins that includes niacin and riboflavin – B
#4 The longest letter in the alphabet when spelled out – W
#5 Generation term for those born between the mid 1990s and early 2010s – Z
#6 The middle name of former US President Harry Truman – S (just the initial; it didn’t actually stand for a name!)
#7 E is to W as S is to – N (East, West, South, North)
#8 The Roman number for 500 – D
#9 Representing potassium on the Periodic Table – K
#10 The letter that comes next after QWERTY – U

COLOURFUL SONGS

We’ll give you the famous song title featuring a colour, you tell us the artist

“Purple Rain” – Prince
“Purple Haze” – Jimi Hendrix
“Lady in Red” – Chris de Burgh
“Tangled Up in Blue” – Bob Dylan
“White Wedding” – Billy Idol
“Golden Brown” – The Stranglers
“Orange Crush” – R.E.M.
“Yellow” – Coldplay
“Back to Black” – Amy Winehouse
“Back in Black” – AC/DC

BEASTLY BEASTS

Name the 10 mythical creatures based on their descriptions

A horse with a horn on its head – Unicorn
A spirit that appears when a magic lamp is rubbed – Genie
Giant with one eye – Cyclops
Half woman, half fish – Mermaid
Half man, half horse – Centaur
Menacing creature that lives under a bridge – Troll
A bird that rises from ashes – Phoenix
Tiny Irish spirit who hoards gold – Leprechaun
Three-headed dog guarding Hades – Cerberus
Huge octopus-like sea monster – Kraken 

THE RIDDLER

Try these five word riddles!

#1 What English word retains the same pronunciation, even when you take away four of its five letters?
#2 Which letter is the answer to the trick riddle. “It occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years.”?
#3 I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. What is it?
#4 What 11-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
#5 How do you make the number one disappear by adding to it?

Answers:

#1 Queue
#2 the letter “m”
#3 Few
#4 Incorrectly
#5 Add “g” to “one” and it’s “gone” (or add “n” and it’s “none”)

 

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

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz

Categories: Uncategorized Tags: puzzles

Shamus Sillar

While he has worked as a magazine editor since 2003, Shamus also has a PhD in Roman History (useful!) and is a published author. He writes mostly on travel but also covers food, history, sport, trivia and more, across Expat Living’s publications and websites in Singapore and Hong Kong.

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