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Puzzle Pages, May 2024 answers – Page 1
#1 What type of birds are used as croquet mallets by the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland?
#2 What year did the Korean War start?
#3 Name the four blood groups.
#4 Who won the FIFA World Cup played in Qatar in 2022?
#5 What is the smallest prime number greater than 20?
#6 Alaska is easily the biggest US state; which is the second biggest?
#7 What musical instrument is Miles Davis associated with?
#8 “Guernica” is a famous artwork by who?
#9 What “gift” does a male penguin often give to a female penguin while courting her?
#10 Thimpu is the capital of which Asian country?
Answers:
#1 Flamingos
#2 1950
#3 A, AB, B, O
#4 Argentina
#5 23
#6 Texas
#7 Trumpet
#8 Pablo Picasso
#9 A pebble or polished stone
#10 Bhutan
SUDOKU
3 2 9 8 1 6 4 5 7
4 5 7 2 3 9 8 6 1
1 6 8 4 5 7 9 2 3
7 8 1 5 4 3 6 9 2
2 3 6 9 8 1 5 7 4
9 4 5 6 7 2 1 3 8
5 9 4 7 2 8 3 1 6
6 7 3 1 9 4 2 8 5
8 1 2 3 6 5 7 4 9
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: armadillo
Others:
alma, amid, dorm, dram, lama, lima, loam,
maid, mail, mall, marl, mild, mill, milo, moil,
mold, moll, roam, alarm, amido, aroma,
diram, domal, drama, llama, malar, modal,
molar, moral, amidol, amoral, aramid, admiral,
armload, mallard
KENKEN
1 5 4 2 3
3 1 5 4 2
4 2 3 1 5
2 3 1 5 4
5 4 2 3 1
Puzzle Pages, May 2024 answers – Page 2
CHECKING IN
Match each real or fictional hotel with its related word or phrase
Answers:
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson
Amsterdam Hilton – “The Ballad of John and Yoko”
The Overlook Hotel – The Shining
Hotel Yorba – The White Stripes
Park Hyatt Tokyo – Lost In Translation
Hotel California – The Eagles
Fawlty Towers – Manuel
Bates Motel – Psycho
The Real Exotic Marigold Hotel – Udaipur
Caesar’s Palace – The Hangover
FANCY A CUPPA?
Identify whether each of the following is a type of tea or coffee
Answers:
Rooibos – tea
Kopi Luwak – coffee
Matcha – tea
Hawaiian Kona – coffee
Mocha – coffee
Gunpowder – tea
Pu-erh – tea
Blue Mountain – coffee
Oolong – tea
Harar – coffee
NEIGH SAYERS
Pair each animal with the noise it makes in a different language
Answers:
Rooster – ü-ürü-ü (Turkish)
Pig – hunk (Albanian)
Sheep – mää (Finnish)
Cat – yaong (Korean)
Mouse – pip-pip (Swedish)
Dog – blaf-blaf (Dutch)
Cow – mooh (Indonesian)
Duck – cua-cua (Spanish)
Frog – brekeke (Hungarian)
Horse – i-haaa (Polish)
THE RIDDLER
Which switch?
Which switch?
You’re standing at a closed door leading into a windowless room. You can’t see inside the room, but you’re told there’s a lamp in the middle of the room with a single light bulb in it. Next to you is a panel of three switches; one of them turns the lamp on and off. You’re told that the lamp is currently off. Your task is to work out which switch controls the lamp. You can flip the switches on and off any way you want, but you can only open the door once. And, once you’ve opened it, you can’t touch any of the switches again.
How do you determine which switch controls the light bulb? (Hint: This is not a word play trick, but an actual physical problem that could be solved if you were at the location.)
Answer:
Flip the first switch and leave it on for a few minutes. Then flip it off again, and flip the second switch – them immediately open the door and walk in. If the light is on, you know that the second switch is the one that controls the lamp. If the light is off, put your hand on the bulb and feel it. A warm bulb means that the first switch must have turned the light on. If it’s cool to the touch, then the only other option is that the third switch controls the light.
Liked our May puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
