Puzzle Pages – answers for November 2025!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the November 2025 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 2025 answers – Page 1

Q&A

1.  What is the only country with the letter sequence “pt” in its name?
2. What’s a perfect score in ten-pin bowling?
3. USB stands for Universal Serial what?
4. Who was the first woman to run for Vice President of the US as a Republican candidate?
5. Express the following as a decimal: 7% plus 3/4
6. Starting with “c”, what is the highest pitched male voice?
7. True or false: “Scott of the Antarctic” was the first person to reach the South Pole?
8. What was once described by Karl Marx as “the opiate of the masses”?
9. Where might you find an aglet?
10. What 1989 Cher video was banned from primetime MTV because of her revealing costume?

Answers:

1. Egypt
2. 300
3. Bus
4. Sarah Palin
5. 0.82
6. Countertenor
7. False (Roald Amundsen and his team beat Captain Scott by five weeks)
8. Religion
9. At the end of a shoelace (it’s the name of the plastic protector)
10. “If I Could Turn Back Time”

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: milkshake

others:

ahem, hail, hake, hale, heal, helm, hike, kish,
lash, mash, mesh, sham, shea, shim, khaki,
leash, shake, shale, shame, sheal, sheik,
lamish, mashie, sheila

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, November 2025 answers – Page 2

ON THE STAGE

Match the character to the musical they appear in

Answers:

The Baker’s Wife – Into The Woods
Inspector Javert – Les Misérables
Glinda – Wicked
Roxie Hart – Chicago
Seymour Krelborn – Little Shop of Horrors
Miss Trunchbull – Matilda
Aaron Burr – Hamilton
Christine Daaé – The Phantom of the Opera
Usnavi de la Vega – In The Heights
Fagin – Oliver!

WORDS OF THE MONTH

It’s November, so we’ve got a bunch of other words and phrases starting with “No–” for you to identify; we’ve given you the letter counts of each one to help

Answers:

A small, sheltered corner or space (4) – nook
Built an ark (4) – Noah
Poisonous or unpleasant (7) – noxious
A Singapore suburb (7) – Novena
A short book or a long short story (7) – novella
Nine-sided shape (7) – nonagon
Wistful affection for a period in the past (9) nostalgia
An alternative word for Dracula (9) – Nosferatu
Member of Oasis (4, 9) – Noel Gallagher
James Bond film from 2021 (2, 4, 2, 3) – No Time to Die

NAME THE ISLAND

Which islands are these? Give us a name based on each description

Answers:

A country and a continent – Australia
The “football” of Italy’s boot – Sicily
Home to East Malaysia – Borneo
90% of its wildlife isn’t found anywhere else – Madagascar
The Star Ferry will take you there – Hong Kong Island
Least populated NY borough – Staten Island
Here be dragons (well, giant lizards) – Komodo
Has four official languages – Singapore
Spanish clubbing and nightlife – Ibiza
White Lotus season three – Koh Samui

THE RIDDLER

Try these rebuses!

Answers:

#1 It could be worse
#2 Robin Hood
#3 Tea for two
#4 Foreign language
#5 Good afternoon

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

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz