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Puzzle Pages, June 2021: All the Answers!

31st May 2021 by Shamus Sillar 3 Min Read

https://expatliving.sg/puzzle-pages-june-2021-all-the-answers/

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the June 2021 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 is a vuvuzela?
#2 Which of Snow White’s seven dwarfs has the most letters in his name?
#3 New York City is made up of how many boroughs?
#4 Wood is the symbol of which wedding anniversary?
#5 What’s the name of the children’s game where you draw a section of gallows with each wrong answer?
#6 How old was Queen Victoria when she became Queen of England: 8, 18 or 28?
#7 What is the cubed root of 64?
#8 “Edward Teach” is believed to have been the real name of which famous pirate?
#9 Damascus is the capital city of which Middle East country?
#10 Name any one of the three James Bond theme songs sung by Shirley Bassey.

Answers:
#1 A plastic horn used to produce long, loud musical notes, commonly used at football matches in South Africa
#2 Bashful
#3 Five
#4 5th
#5 Hangman
#6 18
#7 Four
#8 Blackbeard
#9 Syria
#10 Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: microchip

Others:
choc, chop, coir, comp, corm,
croc, crop, orch, prom, romp,
chico, chiro, choir, chomp,
comic, croci, ichor, micro, morph,
ohmic, porch, primo, choric,
orphic, chromic, morphic

KENKEN

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

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

WHERE IN THE WORLD

Match the country to its second-biggest city

Indonesia – Surabaya
Iraq – Basra
Jamaica – Spanish Town
Nairobi – Mombasa
South Korea – Busan
Morocco – Fez
Norway – Bergen
Syria – Aleppo
Afghanistan – Kandahar

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Match the decade to the event

1900s: The Wright brothers successfully fly a powered aircraft
1910s: The RMS Titanic sinks
1920s: Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s tomb
1930s: Gone With the Wind premieres at a theatre in Atlanta, Georgia
1940s: The first commercial microwave oven is released
1950s: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Mount Everest
1960s: Martin Luther King Jr gives his “I have a dream” speech
1970s: Apple is launched by Steve Jobs and others
1980s: The Chernobyl power plant explodes
1990s: Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa

QUICKIE

A trio of tricky riddles

#1 You have one 5-litre bowl and one 3-litre bowl, and an unlimited supply of milk. How do you measure exactly 4 litres using the bowls?

Answer: Fill the 5-litre bowl, and pour it into the 3-litre bowl. Empty the remainder of the 5-litre bowl, and then pour all the milk from the 3-litre bowl into it. Now fill the 3-litre bowl and pour it into 5-litre bowl. You now have 1 litre of milk left in the 3-litre bowl. Empty the 5-litre bowl and pour the 1 litre from the 3-litre bowl into it. Fill the 3-litre bowl and pour it into the 5-litre bowl. You now have 4 litres of milk in the 5-litre bowl.

#2 What two whole, positive numbers have a one-digit answer when multiplied and a two-digit answer when added?

Answer: 9 and 1

#3 John’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and who?

Answer: John

TV CHARACTERS

We’ll give you the characters’ names; you tell us the TV show!

  • Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler – Friends
  • Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po – Teletubbies
  • Walter, Jesse, Skyler, Hank – Breaking Bad
  • Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Will – Stranger Things
  • David, Gareth, Dawn, Finchy – The Office (UK)
  • Tony, Carmela, Paulie Walnuts, AJ – The Sopranos
  • Fozzie, Waldorf, Animal, Gonzo – The Muppet Show
  • Marion, Fonzie, Richie, Chachi – Happy Days
  • Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, Raj – The Big Bang Theory
  • Eric, Chef, Mr Garrison, Kyle – South Park

 

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

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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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