Puzzle Pages, September 2020: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the September 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 Who did Forbes name as the youngest self-made billionaire in 2019? (Hint: Initials “KJ”)
#2 How many eyes does a bee have: 2, 5 or 21?
#3 What is the name of Vietnam’s official currency, starting with “d”?
#4 What was Jim Henson famous for?
#5 How many days are in a leap year?
#6 Which email service is owned by Microsoft?
#7 How many balls are there in a snooker triangle?
#8 Who played the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic?
#9 On a standard keyboard, which is the only vowel not on the top line of letters?
#10 What did the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” climb up?

#1 Kylie Jenner
#2 Five
#3 Dong
#4 He created The Muppets
#5 366
#6 Hotmail / Outlook
#7 Fifteen
#8 Leonardo DiCaprio
#9 The letter “a”
#10 The waterspout

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

Main word: pollution

Other possible words:

loop, loup, pill, pint, pion, plot, poll, polo, pont,
pool, poon, pout, ptui, puli, pull, punt, topi, topo,
tupi, upon, input, lupin, pilot, pinot, pinto, piton,
pluto, poilu, point, polio, poult, punto, puton,
topoi, tulip, uplit, option, pluton, polloi, pontil,
potion, pullin, outpoll

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Page 2

FAVOURITE FOODS

Bulgogi: Korea
Döner kebab: Turkey
Feijoada: Brazil
Ackee and saltfish: Jamaica
Moussaka: Greece
Goulash: Hungary
Haggis: Scotland
Nasi lemak: Malaysia

ACRONYMS

LSD: Hallucinogen (Lysergic acid diethylamide, or “acid”)
LED: Type of light (light-emitting diode)
LOL: Internet slang (laugh out loud)
LAX: Airport (Los Angeles)
LBJ: President (Lyndon Baines Johnson)
LLB: Law degree (Legum Baccalaureus)
LKR: Sri Lanka currency (Sri Lankan rupee)
LBD: Fashion item (little black dress)

QUICKIE

Two mothers and two daughters sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs – each person had an egg. How?

One of the “mothers” is also a grandmother. So, the group consists of three people: a grandmother, a daughter and a granddaughter. Two are mothers, and two are daughters.

ARTIST & SONG

• Olivia Newton-John: “You know I’m just a fool who’s willing to sit around and wait for you.” (“Hopelessly Devoted to You”)
• One Direction: “Maybe it’s the way she walked straight into my heart and stole it” (“Best Song Ever”)
• The Monkees: “Then I saw her face…” (“I’m a Believer”)
• Taylor Swift: “Vintage tee, brand new phone, high heels on cobblestones” (“Cardigan”)
• Daft Punk: “Like the legend of the phoenix, all ends with beginnings” (“Get Lucky”)
• Jimi Hendrix: “There must be some kind of way outta here, said the joker to the thief…” (“All Along the Watchtower”)
• Amy Winehouse: “You went back to what you knew, so far removed from all that we went through” (“Back to Black”)
• George Ezra: “Time flies by in the yellow and green, stick around and you’ll see what I mean” (“Shotgun”)
• Talking Heads : “Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down” (“Once in a Lifetime”)
• Bobby McFerrin: “’Here’s a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note” (“Don’t Worry Be Happy”)

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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.