Puzzle Pages, October 2020: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the October 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 In which city was Anne Frank’s hiding place?
#2 How many films in the Fast & Furious franchise have been released to date?
#3 RAM stands for what?
#4 What is the largest type of deer?
#5 An early working name for the Google search engine was FindMe, BackRub or InfoGrab?
#6 In which country was Nutella invented?
#7 Which Disney film features the song “When You Wish Upon a Star”?
#8 Who is the founder of space transportation company SpaceX?
#9 What do you call the process by which substances are washed out of soil?
#10 What currency is used in China?

#1 Amsterdam
#2 Eight (the ninth is set to come up in 2021)
#3 Random Access Memory
#4 Moose
#5 BackRub
#6 Italy
#7 Pinocchio
#8 Elon Musk
#9 Leaching
#10 Renminbi (often referred to as “yuan”)

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

Main word: objective

Other possible words:

beet, bice, bite, cete, cite, cote, cove, ebit, etic, jete, jibe,
jive, jove, veto, vibe, vice, viet, vote, boite, civet, covet,
eject, evict, evite, objet, voice, object

KENKEN

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

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FAMOUS NAMES

Match the famous sporting personality with the sport

Nadia Comaneci: Gymnastics
Pele: Football
Kelly Slater: Surfing
Jonah Lomu: Rugby Union
Steffi Graf: Tennis
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Basketball
Dawn Fraser: Swimming
Sergey Bubka: Pole vaulting
Annika Sorenstam: Golf
Sir Donald Bradman: Cricket

ANAGRAMS

Find the animals mixed up in the following words

false = fleas
carob = cobra
emanate = manatee
aunt = tuna
straying = stingray
raptor = parrot
torte = otter
paroled = leopard

QUICKIE

Solve these rebuses!

smo UP ke
CCCCCCC
revird taes
1SAF23ETY456
Person   ality

Up in smoke
Seven seas
Backseat driver
Safety in numbers
Split personality

ARTIST & SONG

• ABBA, “You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life” (“Dancing Queen”)
• Eminem, “My tea’s gone cold I’m wondering why, I got out of bed at all” (“Stan”)
• Ariana Grande, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s and bottles of bubbles, girls with tattoos who like getting in trouble” (“7 Rings”)
• Steve Miller Band, “Some people call me the space cowboy, some call me the gangster of love” (“The Joker”)
• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “Don’t push me cuz I’m close to the edge, I’m tryin’ not to lose my head” (“The Message”)
• Beyonce, “Such a funny thing for me to try to explain, How I’m feeling and my pride is the one to blame” (“Crazy in Love”)
• Marvin Gaye, “Mother, mother, there’s too many of you crying” (“What’s Going On”)
• Duke Dumont, “When I say red light, I need you to stop, when I say green light, I need you to go” (“Red Light Green Light”)
• Stevie Wonder, “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer” (“Superstition”)
• Paul Simon, “If you’ll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal” (“You Can Call Me Al”)

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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.