Puzzle Pages, March 2022: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the March 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 Do ants have lungs?
#2 The words “tycoon”, “rickshaw” and “hunky-dory” come to us from which language?
#3 What’s the first letter on a typewriter?
#4 How many rides are there at Disney World in Florida: 52, 82 or 112?
#5 What flavour does Cointreau have?
#6 What famous theory was published by Albert Einstein?
#7 Who plays the title role in The Batman, which hits cinemas in March?
#8 Which continent has the most countries?
#9 Which tennis trophy is topped by a miniature gold pineapple? (Hint: you might expect a strawberry instead…)
#10 What’s 120% of 60?

#1 No; they breathe through a series of holes along their body known as spiracles
#2 Japanese
#3 Q
#4 52
#5 Orange
#6 The Theory of Relativity
#7 Robert Pattinson
#8 Africa; it has 54 countries, followed closely by Europe with 51 and Asia 49
#9 Wimbledon
#10 72

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: fantastic

Others:

acta, anti, cant, cast, cist, fact, fast,
fiat, fist, sati, scat, sift, snit, stat, tact,
tain, tint, actin, antic, attic, canst, faint,
saint, satin, scant, snift, stain, stint,
tacit, tafia, taint, tatas, tinct, titan, attain,
caftan, casita, catfit, fatist, intact, nastic,
sancta, static, statin, tanist, antifat,
astatic, fanatic, fantast, satanic

KENKEN

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

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

WORDS FOR THE MONTH

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

• Apocalyptic film character played by Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy (3, 3) = Mad Max
• In rugby terms, it’s usually paired with a ruck (4) = maul
• Squirmy thing that turns into a fly (6) = maggot
• A delicate cookie sandwich made of meringue (7) = macaron
• Play this game and you’ll hear lots of clacking tiles (7) = mahjong
• Food spread that’s similar to (but infinitely inferior to) Vegemite (7) = Marmite
• It neighbours us to the north (8) = Malaysia
• What you have in your hands right now! (8) = magazine
• Non-talkative model who displays clothes in a shop window (9) = mannequin
• Essential ingredient in a S’more (11) = marshmallow

VROOM! VROOM!

Name the country of origin of these 10 makes of car

Audi – Germany
Lada – Russia
Jaguar – England
Nissan – Japan
Škoda – Czech Republic
Tesla – USA
Volvo – Sweden
Alfa Romeo – Italy
Peugeot – France
Kia – South Korea

DECIPHERING DAIRY

Unscramble each word to find a cheese, please

drached – cheddar
tafe – feta
arctito – ricotta
ribe – brie
tonsilt – stilton
ugado – gouda
snaprame – parmesan
zamelorzal – mozzarella
made – edam
tembracem – camembert

QUICKIE

Riddle me this

#1 Two men are the only hairdressers in a small town. You decide to go to one of the hairdressers. The one in the store on the left has jagged, uneven patches of hair in several places on his head. The one in the store on the right hair has perfect shiny hair with nothing out of place. Which one do you choose, the one on the left, or the one on the right?

#2 If I give you nine toothpicks, how can you make ten without breaking any of the toothpicks?

#3 You’re in a bathroom with stone walls and no windows. You start to run a bath but the handles come off and there’s no way of turning off the taps. You can’t escape because the door is locked and there are no windows. The room will flood and you will drown. How can you save yourself?

Answers

#1 Choose the one on the left, since he gave the fabulous haircut to the one on the right.
#2 Place the nine toothpicks so that they spell TEN.
#3 Pull the plug out of the bath.

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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.