Puzzle Pages, February 2022: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the February 2022 issue of Expat Living. 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!

Answers to Puzzle Page 1

Q&A

#1 What’s the capital of Vietnam?
#2 Which alternative rock band had a hit in 1991 with “Losing My Religion”?
#3 Is a group of jellyfish called a bloom, a school or a shroud?
#4 Which board game involves players trying to identify specific words from their teammates’ drawings?
#5 Who is the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II?
#6 What does IPA stand for in beer terminology?
#7 Who was emperor when the Great Fire of Rome broke out in AD 64?
#8 How much is five fourteenths of 112?
#9 Stefani Germanotta is the real name of which singer and actress?
#10 From which language do we get the word “futon”?

#1 Hanoi
#2 REM
#3 Bloom
#4 Pictionary
#5 Prince Edward
#6 India Pale Ale
#7 Nero
#8 40
#9 Lady Gaga
#10 Japanese

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: hopscotch

Others:

choc, chop, cosh, hoop, hoot, hops, host, oohs,
phot, pooh, posh, shoo, shop, shot, soho, soph,
toph, tosh, cooch, hooch, hoots, hotch, photo,
pooch, shoot, sooth, cohost, hootch, pothos,
scooch, scotch, scootch

KENKEN

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

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

WORDS FOR THE MONTH

To mark February, find 10 words starting with “fe” from the following definitions; we’ve given you the number of letters in each word

A Moroccan city and a type of felt hat (3) = Fez
Think Al Capone vs Bugs Moran, or Taytay vs Kanye (4) = Feud
You might get this from flu, a cold, malaria or COVID (5) = Fever
Bueller’s first name (6) = Ferris
Description of a small but lively and determined person (6) = Feisty
Black Eyed Peas singer / Duchess of York (6) = Fergie
Combat sport with a foil and a sabre (7) = Fencing
Able to produce physically healthy offspring (7) = Fertile
You might find it coated in a carbonara sauce (9) = Fettucine
Manny Pacquiao fought in this class (13) = Featherweight

THE BARD

Fill in the missing words from these 10 Shakespeare plays

The ______ of Venice = “The Merchant of Venice”
A ______ Night’s Dream = “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Much Ado About ______ = “Much Ado About Nothing”
The Two ______ of Verona = “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”
The ______ Wives of Windsor = “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
______ Andronicus = “Titus Andronicus”
The ______ of the Shrew = “The Taming of the Shrew”
The Winter’s ______ = “The Winter’s Tale”
Antony and ______ = “Antony and Cleopatra”
The ______ of Errors = “The Comedy of Errors”

SIGHTSEEING

Match the landmark with the country

Temple of Luxor = Egypt
Angkor Wat = Cambodia
Hagia Sofia = Turkey
Uluru = Australia
Niagara Falls = Canada
Machu Pichu = Peru
Petra = Jordan
Forbidden City = China
Iguazu Falls = Brazil
Leaning Tower of Pisa = Italy

QUICKIE

Riddle me this

#1 What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

#2 You’re trying to find your way out of a maze, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a pit of lava. The door in the middle leads to a room filled with a deadly gas. And the door on the right leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?

#3 f I am holding a bee, what do I have in my eye?

Answers

#1 Short

#2 The right-hand door (a lion that hasn’t eaten for three months would be dead)

#3 Beauty (“beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder…”)

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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.