Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the November 2020 issue of Expat Living. If you missed the puzzles or you’d like to make sure you get them in each issue from now, don’t forget to subscribe!
Puzzle Page 1
Q&A
#1 What is a plié in ballet?
#2 What colour wine is Valpolicella?
#3 What was the verdict in OJ Simpson’s murder trial?
#4 What’s the chemical name for salt?
#5 Fill in the quote from the 1960s TV show Lost in Space; “Danger, ___ ___!”
#6 How many players are there in a water polo team?
#7 What mountain was home to the Greek gods?
#8 Who played the role of Neo in The Matrix?
#9 If you order unagi in a Japanese restaurant, what do you get?
#10 The name of UK sandwich chain Pret a Manger translates as what in French?
#1 Bending at the knees
#2 Red
#3 Not guilty
#4 Sodium chloride
#5 “Will Robinson!”
#6 Seven
#7 Olympus
#8 Keanu Reeves
#9 Eel
#10 “Ready to eat”
SUDOKU
5 2 1 7 9 4 8 3 6
7 8 3 2 6 5 9 4 1
6 9 4 8 3 1 7 2 5
4 7 2 6 5 9 1 8 3
9 3 8 1 7 2 6 5 4
1 6 5 4 8 3 2 7 9
8 4 6 5 1 7 3 9 2
2 1 9 3 4 8 5 6 7
3 5 7 9 2 6 4 1 8
WORDWHEEL
Main word: floodgate
Other possible words:
alef, daft, deaf, deft, delf, fade, fado, fate, feal,
feat, felt, feod, feta, flag, flat, flea, fled, floe, flog,
foal, fold, food, fool, foot, golf, goof, leaf, left, loaf,
loft, loof, afoot, aloft, aloof, defat, defog, delft, fadge,
fagot, fated, fetal, float, flood, flota, loofa, foaled,
fodgel, foetal, folate, fooled, footed, footle, golfed,
goofed, loafed, lofted, fagoted, floated, flotage, footage,
footled, gatefold
KENKEN
2 3 4 5 1
4 1 5 3 2
5 2 3 1 4
3 4 1 2 5
1 5 2 4 3
Puzzle Page 2
FOR FILM BUFFS
Match the film character with the actor (bonus points for naming the movie)
Mr Pink – Steve Buscemi, Reservoir Dogs
Elle Woods – Reese Witherspoon, Legally Blonde
Vito Corleone – Marlon Brando, The Godfather
The Narrator – Brad Pitt, Fight Club
Imperator Furiosa – Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
Randle McMurphy – Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Daniel Plainview – Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Joy – Amy Poehler, Inside Out
ANAGRAMS
Find the world cities mixed up in the following words
animal – Manila
my toxic ice – Mexico City
more – Rome
go boat – Bogota
I munch – Munich
solo – Oslo
gin jibe – Beijing
hasten – Athens
QUICKIE
Brush up on your maths!
- A hamster weighs one kilogram plus half the weight of the hamster. How much does the hamster weigh?
- Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. What’s the answer?
- Draw one straight line anywhere in the following sum to make it correct: 5 + 5 + 5 = 550
#1 The answer is 2 kilograms. The hamster weighs 1kg plus half the hamster, or “half the hamster + half the hamster”. That means that half the hamster is equal to 1 kilogram. Therefore the full hamster is 2 kilograms. (No hamsters were halved in creating and solving this puzzle!)
#2 No, it’s not 25! The answer is 70. You’re dividing 30 by a half, not by two; 30 divided by ½ is equal to 30 muliplied by 2, which is 60. Add 10 and you get 70.
#3 Just add the straight line to the first plus sign and you can change it to a four: so, “5 + 5” becomes “5 4 5”; and 545 plus 5 equals 550.
ARTIST & SONG
- Alanis Morissette, “It’s like rain, on your wedding day” (“Ironic”)
- Kermit the Frog, “Why are there so many songs about rainbows?” (“Rainbow Connection”)
- The Knack, “Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one, When you gonna give me some time” (“My Sharona”)
- Björk, “It’s oh so quiet, shh shh, it’s oh so still, shh shh” (“It’s, Oh, So Quiet”)
- The Cure, “We’re so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty!” (“The Love Cats”)
- Smashing Pumpkins, “Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage” (“The World is a Vampire”)
- Gloria Gaynor, “At first I was afraid, I was petrified” (“I Will Survive”)
- Joan Jett, “I saw him dancin’ there by the record machine” (“I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”)
- The Beach Boys, “I … I love the colourful clothes she wears, and the way the sunlight plays upon her hair” (“Good Vibrations”
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