Puzzle Pages, September 2021: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the September 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 Put these four paces of a horse in order from slowest to fastest: canter, walk, gallop, trot.
#2 What is the value of pi to two decimal places?
#3 What’s the highest mountain on the Japanese island of Hokkaido? (Hint: it’s the name of a beer.)
#4 James Earl Jones voiced which character in the Star Wars movies?
#5 Which bird is able to fly backwards?
#6 What does the Statue of Liberty wear on her feet?
#7 Which Italian island near Venice is famous for glass-making?
#8 Where would you find something that is subcutaneous?
#9 Which artist said that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes?
#10 Which is further to the north, Phuket or Penang?

#1 Walk, trot, canter, gallop
#2 3.14
#3 Asahi
#4 Darth Vader
#5 Hummingbird
#6 Sandals
#7 Murano
#8 Under the skin
#9 Andy Warhol
#10 Phuket

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter words: celebrate, erectable

Others: abet, able, bale, bare, bate, bear,
beat, beer, beet, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet,
brae, brat, carb, crab, abele, abler, acerb,
baler, beret, betel, blare, blate, blear, bleat,
brace, bract, caber, cable, celeb, rebec, rebel,
taber, table, albert, beater, beetle, belter,
berate, cabler, cablet, labret, rebate, treble,
beetle, bleater, retable, bracelet

KENKEN

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

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

BRAND RECOGNITION

Match the company to the country

IKEA – Sweden
Tata Motors – India
Corona – Mexico
Samsung – South Korea
Gucci – Italy
Huawei – China
Rolls Royce – UK
Haribo – Germany
LEGO – Denmark
Jollibee – Philippines

TV CHARACTERS – PART 2

We’ll give you the characters’ names; you tell us the TV show!

Trinity, Morpheus, Neo – The Matrix
Buttercup, Westley, Inigo – The Princess Bride
Joy, Sadness, Anger – Inside Out
Maria, Liesl, Gretl – The Sound of Music
Jules, Vincent, Marsellus – Pulp Fiction
Katniss, Peeta, Gale – The Hunger Games
Vito, Sonny, Michael – The Godfather
Marty, Biff, Doc – Back to the Future
Legolas, Frodo, Gandalf – The Lord of the Rings
Kirk, Spock, Scotty – Star Trek

INITIALS QUIZ

What phrases are represented by their first letters here?

24 H in a D – 24 Hours in a Day
99 B of B on the W – 88 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
101 D – 101 Dalmatians
12 S of the Z – 12 Signs of the Zodiac
366 D in a L Y – 366 Days in a Leap Year
The 12 D of C – The 12 Days of Christmas
7 W of the A W – 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
The 10 C – The 10 Commandments
90 D in a R A – 90 Degrees in a Right Angle
26 L of the A – 26 Letters of the Alphabet

QUICKIE

A man without much money is sitting at a bar when he notices that the fellow next to him has a huge wad of $50 notes in his wallet. He says to the rich man, “I have an incredible gift; I can sing just about every song that’s ever been written.” The rich man says, “And?” The poor man continues: “I’ll bet you all the money in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a person’s name of your choice in the words.” The rich man laughs and says, “Okay, sing one with my daughter’s name, Katie Ward-Simpson.”

The rich man goes home with an empty wallet. The poor man goes home with a stack of money. What song did he sing?

 Answer: “Happy Birthday”

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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.