Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the Summer 2024 issue of Expat Living magazine. 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!
Puzzle Pages, Summer 2024 answers – Page 1
Q&A
#1 What group name did Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor perform under?
#2 What breed of dog is also known as a German shepherd?
#3 Which US state lies directly to the south of Georgia?
#4 Who was in the tub with the butcher and the candlestick maker?
#5 What highly sticky substance was invented in 1942?
#6 What is an ellipsis in punctuation?
#7 Paris is hosting the Olympic Games next month, but which city is hosting the next Games in 2028?
#8 What ingredient is fermented to make saké?
#9 Which famous painting depicts Jesus eating at a table with his disciples?
#10 Which rock band released the album OK Computer in 1997?
Answers:
#1 The Goodies
#2 Alsatian
#3 Florida
#4 The baker
#5 Super glue
#6 Three dots in a row (representing a pause or the omission of some words)
#7 Los Angeles
#8 Rice
#9 The Last Supper
#10 Radiohead
SUDOKU
5 4 8 6 3 9 1 7 2
9 7 1 5 4 2 6 8 3
6 3 2 7 8 1 9 4 5
2 6 9 3 7 8 4 5 1
8 1 7 9 5 4 2 3 6
3 5 4 1 2 6 7 9 8
7 9 3 2 1 5 8 6 4
1 8 5 4 6 7 3 2 9
4 2 6 8 9 3 5 1 7
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: spacewalk
Others:
cawk, cawl, claw, clew, pawl, plew, scaw, skaw, skew, slaw,
slew, spew, swap, wack, wake, wale, walk, wase, wasp,
weak, weal, askew, awake, kwela, swale, sweal, caselaw
KENKEN
3 5 1 2 4
1 2 5 4 3
5 4 2 3 1
2 3 4 1 5
4 1 3 5 2
Puzzle Pages, Summer 2024 answers – Page 2
RIVER CITIES
Match the city with its river
Answers:
Warsaw – Vistula
Mandalay – Irrawaddy
Wellington – Hutt
Delhi – Yamuna
Montreal – St Lawrence
Shanghai – Huangpu
Alexandria – Nile
Tokyo – Sumida
Madrid – Manzanares
Baghdad – Tigris
LET IT GROW
Do the following foods grow above or below the ground?
Answers:
turmeric – below
saffron – above
kale – above
daikon – below
jicama – below
scotch bonnet – above
peanuts – below
quinoa – above
radish – below
bok choy – above
CLASSIC ACTORS
Which classic Hollywood star appeared in which famous film?
Answers:
Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Cary Grant – North by Northwest
Marlon Brando – A Streetcar Named Desire
Marilyn Monroe – Some Like It Hot
Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
Katherine Hepburn – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Clark Gable – Gone With the Wind
Humphrey Bogart – The Maltese Falcon
Ingrid Bergman – Casablanca
Bette Davis – All About Eve
THE RIDDLER
In each of the lines below, add a three-letter sequence to fill all the blank spaces and create new words
Answers:
___ine | fala___ | li___ike | bed___low | ___ony
FEL: feline | falafel | lifelike | bedfellow | felony
a___lic | mimi___ | ___ogeny | | ___stal | en___pted
CRY: acrylic | mimicry | cryogeny | crystal | encrypted
s___ | allo___ce | un___ted | ___tonly | zugz___g
WAN: swan | allowance | unwanted | wantonly | zugzwang
