Puzzle Pages, March 2021: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the March 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 country has the most vending machines per capita?
#2 “Henry’s Pockets” are the name for what: a collection of bays and islands off the Vancouver coast; the folds of skin found on cats’ ears; a popular fried snack in Northern Ireland?
#3 What grows from an acorn?
#4 Which actor will play Batman in the upcoming reboot of the film franchise?
#5 The popular cheese gouda comes from which country?
#6 What language is spoken in Brazil?
#7 How many zeroes are there in one million?
#8 The Overlook Hotel is the setting for which Stephen King novel?
#9 What process converts sugar to alcohol, acid or gas?
#10 Which cable TV network produced Game of Thrones?

#1 Japan
#2 Folds of skin in cats’ ears
#3 Oak tree
#4 Robert Pattinson
#5 The Netherlands
#6 Portuguese
#7 Six
#8 The Shining
#9 Fermentation
#10 HBO

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: dentistry

Others:

dent, deny, diet, dine, dint, dire, dirt, dite, drey, dyer, dyne, edit,
ides, ired, nerd, nide, rend, ride, rind, rynd, send, side, tend, tide,
tidy, tied, yird, deist, deity, diner, dirty, ditsy, ditty, drest, nerdy,
resid, rindy, sired, sited, snide, stied, styed, teind, tined, tired,
trend, tried, tyned, tyred, direst, driest, driest, rident, rinsed, snider,
stride, syndet, tinder, tinted, trendy, trined, density, dentist, destiny,
distent, stinted, tindery, trident, trysted, strident

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Page 2

NATIONAL TREASURES

Match the artist or band with the country they hail from

Justin Bieber – Canada
The Cranberries – Ireland
AC/DC – Australia
Rihanna – Barbados
Daft Punk – France
Coldplay – England
Lorde – New Zealand
Kraftwerk – Germany
Vampire Weekend – USA
Lewis Capaldi – Scotland

ANAGRAMS

Find the musical instruments in the following anagrams

tug air              guitar
hop on axes    saxophone
large nit           triangle
a rhino cam     harmonica
groan                organ
nil react            clarinet
door dig die     didgeridoo
stair                   sitar

QUICKIE

Number puzzle

What is unique about the number 8,549,176,320?
(You’re right – it has all the digits from zero to nine; but what else?)

Answer: 8,549,176,320 is the only number to feature all the digits from zero to nine in alphabetical order: eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, three, two, zero

MOVIE QUOTES

• “Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!” (1983) Scarface
  
• “Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?” (2001) Zoolander
  
• “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” (1985) Back to the Future
  
• “I see dead people.” (1999) The Sixth Sense
  
• “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?” (1971) Dirty Harry
  
• “That is so fetch.” (2004) Mean Girls
  
• “Are you not entertained?” (2000) Gladiator
  
• “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.” (1994) Forrest Gump
  
• “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys.” (1989) Dead Poets Society
  
• “They call it a Royale with cheese.” (1994) Pulp Fiction

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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.