Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the September 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, September 2024 answers – Page 1
#1 What time is commonly displayed on a clock or watch in an advertisement?
#2 Is the Guinness World Record for the longest bout of hiccups 8 weeks, 18 months or 68 years?
#3 What actor played Alex Keaton on the 1980s TV show Family Ties?
#4 Which US state is easily the biggest producer of coffee?
#5 Octothorpe is the technical term for what symbol used in social media posts?
#6 What is the only mammal capable of true flight?
#7 Which singer performed at both the 1996 and 2024 Olympics opening ceremonies?
#8 What do Oddjob, Le Chiffre, Jaws and Max Zorin have in common?
#9 What sportswear company was originally called “Blue Ribbon Sports”?
#10 What is the only country in the world that starts with the letter “Y”?
#1 10:10
#2 68 years
#3 Michael J Fox
#4 Hawaii
#5 Hashtag
#6 Bat
#7 Céline Dion
#8 They are all the names of Bond villains
#9 Nike
#10 Yemen
SUDOKU
9 8 3 6 2 4 1 7 5
7 4 1 8 9 5 6 2 3
2 5 6 3 1 7 8 9 4
1 3 5 9 6 8 2 4 7
8 2 4 7 3 1 9 5 6
6 7 9 4 5 2 3 8 1
3 6 7 2 4 9 5 1 8
4 1 2 5 8 3 7 6 9
5 9 8 1 7 6 4 3 2
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: knowledge
Others:
down, glow, gnow, gown, knew, know, lewd, owed, weed, week, weld, wend, woke, wonk, dowel, endow, lowed, newel, ngwee, owled, owned, wedel, wedge, wenge, wodge, woken, glowed, gowned, weeklong
KENKEN
1 3 4 5 2
3 5 2 4 1
2 1 5 3 4
4 2 3 1 5
5 4 1 2 3
Puzzle Pages, September 2024 answers – Page 2
FASHION STATEMENT
Match the fashion brand to the iconic item
Answers:
Fendi – baguette
Hèrmes – Birkin bag
Chanel – Little Black Dress
Levi’s – 501s
Calvin Klein – slip dress
Tiffany – key ring
Louis Vuitton – luggage
Diane Von Furstenberg – wrap dress
Burberry – trench coat
Max Mara – camel coat
FILMS & THEIR DECADES
We’ll name a film; you say when it was released: the 90s, 00s or 10s
Answers:
Frozen – 2013
Fargo – 1996
The Da Vinci Code – 2006
Toy Story – 1995
The Grand Budapest Hotel – 2014
Zoolander – 2001
Dead Man Walking – 1995
Black Panther – 2018
Mamma Mia! – 2008
Skyfall – 2012
GAMING GLOSSARY
Match the term or phrase with the game it comes from
Answers:
Blunder – Chess
Home board – Backgammon
Geography – Trivial Pursuit
Waste pile – Solitaire
Bingo – Scrabble
Campaign – Dungeons & Dragons
Ruff – Bridge
Triple jump – Checkers
Ante – Poker
Free Parking – Monopoly
THE RIDDLER
Number puzzles
#1 Given the numbers 2, 3 ,4 and 5 and the symbols “=” and “+”, can you make a mathematical equation using each number only once? You’re not allowed to use any other number or symbol. (The answer is a genuine equation, not a trick.)
#2 Using any letter only once, what is the largest number that you can write down in words? (E.g., “NINETY” wouldn’t count, because it repeats the letter “N”)
#3 If you reverse the digits of my age, that number is the age of my son. One year ago, I was twice his age. How old are we both now?
Answers:
#1 2 + 5 = 3 + 4
#2 FIVE THOUSAND
#3 73 and 37 (a year ago we were 72 and 36)
Liked our September puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
