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Q&A
#1 Roy Orbison
#2 Venison
#3 Sweden (its inventor was Alfred Nobel, who also started the Nobel Prize)
#4 Little Women
#5 Turkish lira
#6 Harp
#7 Horse
#8 Obtuse
#9 Indonesia
#10 Tears
SUDOKU
9 6 5 1 2 4 7 3 8
3 4 8 9 5 7 1 6 2
2 7 1 6 8 3 4 9 5
4 8 6 3 7 1 2 5 9
5 9 7 2 4 8 3 1 6
1 3 2 5 6 9 8 7 4
6 2 4 7 1 5 9 8 3
7 5 9 8 3 2 6 4 1
8 1 3 4 9 6 5 2 7
WORDWHEEL
Main word: workforce
Other possible words:
cero, core, corf, cork, crew, crow, fore, fork, froe, frow,
kerf, kore, orfe, reck, rock, roof, rook, wore, work, coker,
cooer, corer, cower, crook, crore, force, frock, frore,
ocker, rower, wooer, wreck, cooker, corker, crower,
forcer, forker, recook, recork, reroof, rework, rocker,
roofer, woofer, worker, crooker, coworker
KENKEN
5 1 4 3 2
2 4 5 1 3
4 3 1 2 5
3 5 2 4 1
1 2 3 5 4
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LEARN THE LINGO
Match the English word with its language of origin
Bagel = Yiddish
Poltergeist = German
Taboo = Tongan
Chutney = Hindi
Karaoke = Japanese
Ketchup = Chinese
Missing Vowels
DRN = durian
LTTC = lettuce
PPY = papaya
PTT = potato
BN = banana
NN = onion
P = pea
CCNT = coconut
GV = guava
SPRGS = asparagus
QUICKIE
What does the Y stand for in VIBGYOR?
Yellow (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red)
ARTIST & SONG
- Beastie Boys, “You wake up late for school, man, you don’t wanna go”: “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)”
- Bob Dylan, “How many ears must one man have, before he can hear people cry?”: “Blowin’ in the Wind”
- The Spice Girls, “So tell me what you want, what you really, really want”: “Wannabe”
- Due Lipa “Aren’t you the guy who tried to hurt me with the word ‘goodbye’?”: “Don’t Start Now”
- Cyndi Lauper, “If you’re lost you can look and you will find me”: “Time After Time”
- Kate Bush, “Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home”: “Wuthering Heights”
- AC/DC, “I was caught in the middle of a railroad track, I looked round and I knew there was no turning back”: “Thunderstruck”
- Carly Rae Jepsen, “Hey, I just met you and this is crazy, but here’s my number…”: “Call Me Mabye”
- PSY, “Naje-neun ttasaroun inkanjeo-gin yeoja”: “Gangnam Style”
- Bee Gees, “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a woman’s man: no time to talk”: “Stayin’ Alive”
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