Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the October 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, October 2023 answers – Page 1
Q&A
#1 Who played the two lead roles in Pretty Woman?
#2 What is measured by a Geiger Counter?
#3 In which city is the headquarters of the United Nations?
#4 What does BMI stand for?
#5 What is the name of Taylor Swift’s current world tour?
#6 True or false: a Long Island Ice Tea typically has gin in it.
#7 What is the tallest type of grass in the world?
#8 What’s the name of the small plastic tube at the end of a shoelace?
#9 Dumplings called momos comes from which country?
#10 The tuba is the largest member of which musical family?
Answers:
#1 Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
#2 Radiation
#3 New York
#4 Body Mass Index
#5 The Eras Tour
#6 True
#7 Bamboo
#8 Aglet
#9 Nepal
#10 Brass
SUDOKU
9 6 2 1 7 5 4 3 8
3 4 1 6 8 9 7 2 5
5 7 8 2 4 3 9 6 1
8 5 9 4 6 7 2 1 3
6 2 7 3 5 1 8 4 9
4 1 3 9 2 8 6 5 7
1 3 4 7 9 2 5 8 6
2 9 5 8 1 6 3 7 4
7 8 6 5 3 4 1 9 2
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: furniture
Others:
fern, fire, fret, frit, rein, rent, rife, rift, rite,
ruin, rune, runt, tern, tier, tire, true, turf,
turn, finer, firer, frier, fruit, inert, infer,
inter, inure, nitre, refit, rerun, rifer, trier,
trine, truer, tuner, urine, uteri, future,
return, ruiner, triune, turner, uniter, untrue,
fruiter, nurture, runtier, turfier, untruer
KENKEN
2 5 1 3 4
3 4 2 5 1
4 2 5 1 3
5 1 3 4 2
1 3 4 2 5
Puzzle Pages, October 2023 answers – Page 2
GEOGRAPHY HALL OF FAME
What are the heavy hitters when it comes to the earth’s features? Tell us 10 of them!
Answers:
Largest ocean – Pacific
Longest river – Nile
Largest continent – Asia
Highest mountain – Everest
Largest country (population) – India*
Largest country (size) – Russia
Largest island – Greenland*
Biggest river (volume) – Amazon
Largest sea – Mediterranean
Largest gorge – Grand Canyon
* India overtook China in population in April 2023; both have over 1.4 billion. Australia is bigger than Greenland but is technically considered to be a continental land mass (i.e., a continent) rather than an island.
FRIGHT NIGHT
How’s your horror movie knowledge? Match the character with the film
Answers:
Pennywise – It
Annie Wilkes – Misery
Michael Myers – Halloween
Pinhead – Hellraiser
Freddy Krueger – A Nightmare on Elm Street
Samara Morgan – The Ring
Damien Thorn – The Omen
Mrs Vorhees – Friday the 13th
Patrick Bateman – American Psycho
Buffalo Bill – The Silence of the Lambs
HAVING A BALL
In this list of 10 not-so-common sports, find the five ball sports. (As a fun bonus, ask a quiz partner to describe each sport in one short sentence to the best of their ability…)
Answers:
Pétanque (ball sport)
Fierljeppen
Dressage
Sepak takraw (ball sport)
Vigoro (ball sport)
Parkour
3×3 (ball sport)
Bo-taoshi
Krav maga
Hurling (ball sport)
THE RIDDLER
We heard you were begging for more maths puzzles…
#1 Using only addition, how can you add eight 8’s to get the number 1,000?
#2 Find the only number whose letters (e.g., “o”, “n”, “e”) are in alphabetical order. Hint: it’s more than ten.
#3 I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit. Who am I?
Answers:
#1 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8
#2 Forty (the only number with letters in alphabetical order)
#3 141
Liked our October puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
