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Puzzle Pages, August 2020: All the Answers!

28th July 2020 by Shamus Sillar 3 Min Read

https://expatliving.sg/puzzle-pages-august-2020-all-the-answers/

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the August 2020 issue of Expat Living. If you missed the puzzles or you’d like to make sure you get them in each issue from now, don’t forget to subscribe!

Puzzle Page 1

Q&A

#1 Which singer was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?
#2 What’s the cube root of 125?
#3 How many of the Seven Dwarves have a “y” at the end of their name?
#4 Skype was created by three developers from Estonia, Pakistan or Morocco?
#5 Which pages of a book are even, the left or right?
#6 Does a piano have 64 or 88 keys?
#7 Which part of the body is treated by a chiropodist?
#8 In which American state was Donald Trump born?
#9 How many squares are on a chessboard?
#10 What is Charlie’s surname in the Roald Dahl story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

#1 Lady Gaga
#2 Five
#3 Five (Happy, Dopey, Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy)
#4 Estonia
#5 Left
#6 88
#7 Feet
#8 New York
#9 64
#10 Bucket

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

Main word: mercenary

Other possible words:

acme, amen, army, came, cram, cyma, cyme, mace, mane,
many, marc, mare, mean, merc, mere, myna, name, neem,
nema, ream, ameer, armer, cream, crème, cymae, cymar,
emery, enema, enemy, macer, marry, meany, mercy, merer,
merry, namer, ramee, ramen, rearm, reman, yamen, yemen,
amerce, carmen, creamy, cymene, meaner, menace, mercer,
raceme, reamer, rename, amercer, creamer, menacer, mercery
creamery, mercenary

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Page 2

LETTER LINKS

What am I?

Answer:  CARPET

I’m a six-letter word (CARPET)
Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink (TEA)
Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit (PEAR)
Letters 3-2-6 spell out a pest (RAT)
which often gets eaten by 1-2-6 (CAT)

Missing words:

PIN (safety pin, pincushion, pinpoint)
KILLER (painkiller, serial killer, killer whale)
CLUB (club sandwich, clubhouse, golf club)
FAST (fast food, fast forward, breakfast)
BOW (crossbow, rainbow, bowtie)

QUICKIE

Happy families:

Mr and Mrs Buffoon have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Buffoon family?

Answer: 9 (Mr Buffoon, Mrs Buffoon, six girls and one boy)

ARTIST & SONG

  • Sia, “Chandelier”: “I’m gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry”
  • Elvis Presley, “Jailhouse Rock”: “The warden threw a party in the county jail, the prison band was there and they began to wail”
  • Foo Fighters, “Everlong”: “And I wonder, when I sing along with you, if everything could ever feel this real forever”
  • The Weeknd, “Blinding Lights”: “I said, ooh, I’m blinded by the lights, no, I can’t sleep until I feel your touch”
  • The Cranberries, “Zombie”: “But you see, it’s not me, it’s not my family, in your head, in your head, they are fighting”
  • Katy Perry, “Firework”: “Ignite the light, and let it shine, just own the night, like the Fourth of July”
  • Billy Joel, “Piano Man”: “It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in”
  • The B-52s, “Rock Lobster”: “We were at the beach, everybody had matching towels, somebody went under a dock, and there they saw a rock”
  • Ylvis, “The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)”: “Dog goes ‘woof’, cat goes ‘meow’, bird goes ‘tweet’…”
  • John Lennon, “Jealous Guy”: “I didn’t mean to hurt you, I’m sorry that I made you cry”


Liked this? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia: 

Saying goodbye to a decade
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz

 

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Shamus Sillar

While he has worked as a magazine editor since 2003, Shamus also has a PhD in Roman History (useful!) and is a published author. He writes mostly on travel but also covers food, history, sport, trivia and more, across Expat Living’s publications and websites in Singapore and Hong Kong.

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