Puzzle Pages, November 2021: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the November 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 Which island is known as the “toe” of Italy?
#2 3 – 4 = ?
#3 Which nursery rhyme character ate curds and whey?
#4 Starting with “S”, what’s the name of South Korea’s biggest tech company?
#5 A tom, a crash and a ride are all parts of what?
#6 How many hurdles are there in a 110-metre hurdles race
#7 Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is from which country?
#8 The Rembrandts sang the theme song to which TV show?
#9 What type of animal is a munchkin?
#10 Arthur Conan Doyle created which famous fictional character?

#1 Sicily
#2 -1 (minus one)
#3 Little Miss Muffet
#4 Samsung
#5 A drum kit
#6 Ten
#7 Sweden
#8 Friends
#9 Cat
#10 Sherlock Holmes

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: longevity

Others:
evil, gilt, glen, inly, lent, levy, lien, line, ling, lino, lint,
lion, lite, live, loge, logy, loin, lone, long, love, noel, oily,
only, tile, toil, tole, veil, vile, viol, vlog, vole, volt, glint,
glove, inlet, legit, lento, levin, lingo, linty, liven, login,
lovey, lying, novel, olein, olive, toile, vinyl, voile, volte,
eloign, entoil, gentil, gently, glinty, legion, lenity, levity,
loving, tiglon, tingle, tingly, ventil, violet, lentigo, levying,
novelty, violent

KENKEN

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

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

WORDS FOR THE MONTH

To mark November, find 10 words starting with “no” from the following definitions; we’ve given you the number of letters in each word

Everyone “knows” this facial feature – nose
Book-length fictional narrative – novel
Person who moves from place to place – nomad
Traditional confectionary of sugar paste and nuts – nougat
To provide food or other sustenance – nourish
Nine-sided figure – nonagon
Found in a dish of hokkien mee – noodles
The steep descent of a plane – nosedive
Opposite of southwest – northeast
Active at night – nocturnal

WHICH SPORT?

Match the team with the game they play

North Melbourne Kangaroos – Australian Rules Football
UAE Team Emirates – Cycling
Atlético Madrid – Football
Springboks – Rugby Union
Houston Rockets – Basketball
Parramatta Eels – Rugby League
Red Bull – Formula 1
Toronto Maple Leafs – Ice Hockey
Cleveland Indians – Baseball
Rajasthan Royals – Cricket

SONGS & PERFORMERS

Match the artist with their hit song of the 2010s

Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
One Direction –“What Makes You Beautiful”
Adele – “Rolling In The Deep”
Travis Scott –“Sicko Mode”
Sia – “Chandelier”
Gotye – “Somebody That I Used To Know
Carly Rae Jepsen – “Call Me Maybe”
Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
Idina Menzel – “Let It Go”

QUICKIE

Some word puzzles!                                    

#1 Rearrange the letters of “rescue” to reveal how a rescued person might feel.
#2 What do the words ALMOST and BIOPSY have in common?
#3 What is the only word in Engish that ends in “-mt”?
#4 ENIMGAZA is an anagram of what thing related to reading?

#1 Secure
#2 The letters come in correct alphabetical order
#3 Dreamt
#4 Magazine

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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.