Puzzle Pages, December 2020: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the December 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 What’s the capital of Canada?
#2 How many faces does a dodecahedron have?
#3 What’s the name of the upcoming James Bond film?
#4 What colour are airplane “black boxes”?
#5 True or false: in 1535, Henry VIII introduced a tax on beards.
#6 What is the number of the iPhone model that is expected to launch in 2021?
#7 How many valves does a trumpet have?
#8 Name all five members of TV’s Simpsons family.
#9 What, in animal terms, is a zeedonk (or zedonk)?
#10 When did the first McDonald’s open, 1940, 1950 or 1960?

#1 Ottawa
#2 12
#3 No Time To Die
#4 Orange
#5 True
#6 13
#7 3
#8 Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie
#9 A cross between a zebra and a donkey
#10 1940

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

Main word: undersize

Other possible words:
dune, dure, durn, nude, nurd, rude, rued, ruin, rune,
ruse, sued, suer, surd, sure, unde, used, user,
zeus, druse, endue, ensue, enure, indue, inure,
nidus, nuder, nudie, nurse, reuse, sieur, suede, undee,
under, urine, ursid, diseur, endure, ensued, ensure, enured,
insure, inured, nudies, nursed, reused, ruined, rusine,
sunder, undies, ureide, ursine, ensured, insured, residue,
seizure, unsized, ureides, unseized

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Page 2

NATIONAL DRESS

Match the piece of traditional clothing with the country

Kilt – Scotland
Kimono – Japan
Sari – India
Gho – Bhutan
Akubra – Australia
Poncho – Bolivia
Sarafan – Russia
Non la – Vietnam

MISSING VOWELS

Find the car models that have lost their a, e, i, o and u

FRRR – Ferrari
BGTT – Bugatti
TYT – Toyota
SB – Saab
RNLT – Renault
TSL – Tesla
CDLLC – Cadillac
JGR – Jaguar
K – Kia
HND – Honda

QUICKIE

Riddle me this

#1 What comes next in this sequence: J A S O N ?
D for December

#2 I stay in the corner but travel around the world. What am I?
A postage stamp

#3 What type of cheese is made backwards?
Edam (“made” backwards)

ARTIST & SONG

• Blondie, “Once I had a love, and it was a gas” (“Heart of Glass”)
• Van Halen, “I get up, and nothin’ gets me down” (“Jump”)
• Lana Del Ray, “Swinging in the backyard, pull up in your fast car” (“Video Games”)
• “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Have some more chicken, have some more pie” (“Eat It”)
• Eurythmics, “Some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you” (“Sweet Dreams”)
• R.E.M., “That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight” (“Losing My Religion”)
• The Beatles, “There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known” (“All You Need Is Love”)
• Justin Bieber, “Oh, you are … my sunrise on the darkest day” (“Despacito”)
• The Mamas & The Papas, “All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey” (“California Dreamin’”)
• Gene Kelly, “What a glorious feelin’, I’m happy again” (“Singin’ in the Rain”)

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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.