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Answers to Puzzle Page 1
Q&A
#1 Which ones point up, stalagmites or stalactites?
#2 Which popular 1970s movie and musical is set in Ridell High?
#3 The adult male of which type of animal is known as a “silverback”?
#4 Model Gigi Hadid was born in which country?
#5 Which children’s story features a boy who trades his cow on the way to market?
#6 What’s the name of the point that comes after “deuce” in a game of tennis?
#7 The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is about a family from which country?
#8 A common expression suggests that real men don’t eat what type of food?
#9 The foot of which animal is thought to bring good luck?
#10 Where do troglodytes live?
#1 Stalagmites
#2 Grease
#3 Gorilla
#4 America
#5 Jack and the Beanstalk
#6 Advantage
#7 Afghanistan
#8 Quiche
#9 Rabbit
#10 In caves or holes in the ground
SUDOKU
4 1 2 7 5 8 6 9 3
8 7 6 2 9 3 5 4 1
3 5 9 6 1 4 7 2 8
7 8 4 3 6 1 2 5 9
2 3 5 8 7 9 1 6 4
6 9 1 5 4 2 3 8 7
5 4 8 1 2 7 9 3 6
1 6 3 9 8 5 4 7 2
9 2 7 4 3 6 8 1 5
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: crocodile
Others:
cedi, ceil, cero, cire, clod, coco, code, coed,
coil, coir, cold, cole, cool, cord, core, cred,
croc, deco, dice, iced, lice, loci, loco, odic,
rice, ceorl, cerci, ceric, cider, codec, coder,
coled, colic, color, cooed, cooer, cored, credo,
cried, croci, décor, dicer, dolce, dolci, doric,
eolic, oleic, relic, riced, cicero, circle, cleric,
clerid, coiled, coiler, colder, cooled, cooler,
coolie, docile, locoed, recoil, circled, colored,
decolor, oceloid
KENKEN
4 5 3 2 1
3 2 5 1 4
1 3 4 5 2
5 1 2 4 3
2 4 1 3 5
Answers to Puzzle Page 2
WHERE IN THE WORLD
Match the mountain to the country
Kilimanjaro – Tanzania
Ben Nevis – UK
Etna – Italy
Table Mountain – South Africa
Nanda Devi – India
K2 – Pakistan
Vinson Massif – Antarctica
Mount Olympus – Greece
Kinabalu – Malaysia
El Capitan – USA
TV CHARACTERS – PART 2
We’ll give you the characters’ names; you tell us the TV show!
Gomez, Wednesday, Morticia, Lurch – The Addams Family
Marge, Lisa, Homer, Bart – The Simpsons
Jon, Tyrion, Daenerys, Joffrey – Game of Thrones
Daphne, Shaggy, Velma, Fred – Scooby-Doo
Basil, Sybil, Manuel, Polly – Fawlty Towers
Brandon, Kelly, Dylan, Brenda – Beverly Hills, 90210
Don, Peggy, Pete, Betty – Mad Men
Bill, Graeme, Tim – The Goodies
JR, Bobby, Miss Ellie, Cliff – Dallas
Bert, Elmo, Oscar, Count – Sesame Street
MOVIE SONGS
Match the song to the film!
“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” – Monty Python’s Life of Brian
“Cups (When I’m Gone)” – Pitch Perfect
“When You Wish Upon a Star” – Pinocchio
“Shallow” – A Star is Born
“Danger Zone” – Top Gun
“Into The Unknown” – Frozen 2
“My Sharona” – Reality Bites
“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” – Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
“Stuck in the Middle With You” – Reservoir Dogs
“Lady Marmalade” – Moulin Rouge
QUICKIE
More Rebuses
#1 MCE MCE MCE
#2 1 END 3 END 5 END 7 END
#3 MEREPEAT
#4 OR NOTHING OR NOTHING
#5 ECNALG
#1 Three Blind Mice (missing their “I’s”)
#2 Odds and ends
#3 Repeat after me
#4 Double or nothing
#5 Backward glance
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