Puzzle Pages – answers for November 2023!

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

Q&A

#1 Dracula is associated with which harbour town in Yorkshire, England?
#2 What is Garfield’s favourite food?
#3 Is the magnifying glass used by jewellers known as a loupe, a pallin or a visil?
#4 Which famous rock band is playing a residency in Las Vegas from September to December 2023?
#5 What do you call a plant with a two-year growing cycle?
#6 Name the sequel to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
#7 What two colours make up the flag of Sweden?
#8 What gets carried in a hod?
#9 What is five to the power of zero?
#10 Balsamic vinegar is made from which fruit?

Answers:

#1 Whitby
#2 Lasagne
#3 Loupe
#4 U2
#5 Biennial
#6 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
#7 Blue and yellow
#8 Bricks
#9 One
#10 Grapes

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: infection

Others:
cent, cine, cite, coif, coin, cone, coni, cote,
etic, foci, icon, nice, once, otic, cento, conte,
ficin, ionic, nonce, ontic, tonic, confit, incite,
infect, nocent, noetic, notice, confine, fiction
nicotin, cotinine, nicotine

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, November 2023 answers – Page 2

PICK THE PASTA

In the list below, tell us which five words are types of pasta (the other five are names of Italian towns)

Orecchiette
Mirandola
Pappardelle
Vercelli
Farfalle
Sassari
Trapani
Orzo
Garganelli
Gubbio

Answers:

The five pastas are orecchiette, pappardelle, farfalle, orzo and garganelli

OSCAR WINNERS

Another set of five and five: which five of the following have won an Oscar for Best Actor?

Renée Zellweger
Sir Ian McKellen
Amy Adams
Gary Oldman
Robert Downey Jr.
Sandra Bullock
Glenn Close
Liam Neeson
Cher
Jamie Foxx

Answers: The Oscar winners in the list are Renée Zellweger, Gary Oldman, Sandra Bullock, Cher and Jamie Foxx

WHERE IN THE WORLD AM I?

What country are you in if you are …

Answers:

Shopping at Chatuchak: THAILAND
Eating bunny chow: SOUTH AFRICA
Landing in Malé: MALDIVES
Kissing the Blarney Stone: IRELAND
Visiting Whakarewarewa: NEW ZEALAND
Basking on Boracay: PHILIPPINES
Walking around Shwedagon Pagoda: MYANMAR
Drinking baijiu: CHINA
Hiking Machu Picchu: PERU
Teeing off at St Andrews: SCOTLAND

THE RIDDLER

Logic puzzles to test the grey matter!

#1 Alice is looking at Paul. Paul is looking at Mia. Alice is married, Mia is not, and we don’t know if Paul is married or not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?

#2 The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Wednesday. What day is it today?

#3 Five people are eating curry puffs. Person A finishes before person B, but behind C. Person D finishes before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order?

Answers:

#1 Yes. If Paul is married, then he is married and looking at Mia, who is unmarried. If Paul is unmarried, then Alice, who is married, is looking at him. Either way, the statement is true.

#2 Tuesday. The “day before tomorrow” is today, and “the day before two days after” is the same as saying “one day after”. If Wednesday is one day after today, then today is Tuesday.

#3 CABDE. Taking the first three eaters, their order of finishing is CAB. D came next (“behind B”), followed by E.

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

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz