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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
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