Puzzle Pages – answers for November!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the November 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, November 2024 answers – Page 1

Q&A

1. What do you call the first hit in a game of pool?
2. The world’s longest land border is between the USA and Canada; the second longest is between Russia and which country?
3. Katherine Hepburn, Frances McDormand and which male actor are the only three people to have won three Oscars for best actor/actress?
4. What was the name of the German military strategy of rapid, overwhelming attacks?
5. What is Tenzing Norgay best known for?
6. Is this year a leap year?
7. What is the collective noun for a group of pandas: an embarrassment, a mischief or a pandemonium?
8. What was the name of the sword in the stone in Arthurian legend?
9. What country is surrounded by South Africa?
10. Which colour can be seen on the bottom of a rainbow?

Answers:

1. The break
2. Kazakhstan
3. Daniel Day-Lewis
4. Blitzkrieg
5. Becoming the first to summit Mount Everest, with Sir Edmund Hillary
6. Yes
7. Embarrassment
8. Excalibur
9. Rajasthan
10. Violet

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: boyfriend

others:

boyf, defy, fend, fern, fido, find, fine, fire, foin, fond,
ford, fore, froe, rife, brief, deify, edify, ferny, fibre,
fiend, fiery, fined, finer, fired, foyer, infer, reify,
fibred, finder, finery, foined, fonder, forbid, friend,
redfin, refind, bonfire, indyref

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, November 2024 answers – Page 2

LOTSA LAKES

Match the famous lake with its country

Answers:

Inle Lake – Myanmar
Lake Baikal – Russia
Lake Titicaca – Bolivia
Great Bear Lake – Canada
Lake Bled – Slovenia
Lough Neagh – Northern Ireland
Lake Powell – USA
Loch Lomond – Scotland
Lake Taupō – New Zealand
Lake Como – Italy

THREE FILMS, ONE ACTOR – PART II

Same deal as last issue: name the actor who appeared in all three films!

Answers:

• V for Vendetta / Attack of the Clones / Jackie (Natalie Portman)
• Les Misérables / Pan / Australia (Hugh Jackman)
• Scream VI / Beetlejuice Beetlejuice / The Fallout (Jenna Ortega)
• Ghost / The Long Walk Home / Sister Act (Whoopi Goldberg)
• Road House / Donny Darko / Brokeback Mountain (Jake Gyllenhaal)
• Chicago / Judy / Bridget Jones’s Diary (Renée Zellweger)
• Sideways / The Hangover Part II / The Holdovers (Paul Giamatti)
• Interstellar / The Dark Knight Rises / The Devil Wears Prada (Anne Hathaway)
• Man on Fire / Training Day / Flight (Denzel Washington)
• The Godfather / Last Tango in Paris / On The Waterfront (Marlon Brando)

SOMEONE THE SOMETHING

Match the historical characters with their epithets

Answers:

Eric the Red
Catherine the Great
Pliny the Elder
Vlad the Impaler
John the Baptist
Robert the Bruce
Attila the Hun
Ivan the Terrible
William the Conqueror
Richard the Lionheart

THE RIDDLER

Get that mighty maths brain moving with these mysteries

1. Using only addition, add eight 8s to get the number 1,000 (there can be more than one 8 in each number)
2. Three times which number is no greater than two times the same number?
3. What’s the next number in the series: 9823, 3982, 2398, ….
4. What is the smallest number that increases by 12 when it’s read upside down?
5. If 7 is transformed into 13 and 11 into 21, what does 17 become?

 Answers:

1. 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000
2. Zero
3. 8239
4. 86
5. 33

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

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz