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Here you will find our answers puzzle pages From the May 2024 issue of Expat Living magazine. If you like quiz questions and puzzles and want to make sure you receive them every month, don’t miss it Subscribe to Expatriate Life,
Puzzle Pages, May 2024 Answers – Page 1
#1 What type of birds are used as crochet mallets by the Queen of Hearts? Alice in Wonderland,
#2 In which year did the Korean War start?
#3 Name the four blood groups.
#4 Who won the FIFA World Cup played in Qatar in 2022?
#5 What is the smallest prime number greater than 20?
#6 Alaska is easily the largest US state; Which is the second largest?
#7 Miles Davis is associated with which musical instrument?
#8 Whose famous artwork is “Guernica”?
#9 What “gift” does a male penguin often give a female penguin when courting her?
#10 Thimphu is the capital of which Asian country?
Answer:
#1 flamingo
#2 1950
#3 A, AB, B, O
#4 Argentina
#5 23
#6 Texas
#7 Trumpet
#8 Pablo Picasso
#9 A pebble or polished stone
#10 Bhutan
Sudoku
3 2 9 8 1 6 4 5 7
4 5 7 2 3 9 8 6 1
1 6 8 4 5 7 9 2 3
7 8 1 5 4 3 6 9 2
2 3 6 9 8 1 5 7 4
9 4 5 6 7 2 1 3 8
5 9 4 7 2 8 3 1 6
6 7 3 1 9 4 2 8 5
8 1 2 3 6 5 7 4 9
wordwheel
9 letter word: wormy
Other:
alma, amid, hostel, drama, lama, lima, loam,
maid, mail, mall, marl, mild, mill, milo, moile,
mold, mold, rot, alarm, amido, aroma,
Diram, Domal, Drama, Lama, Malar, Modal,
molar, moral, amidol, moral, aramid, admiral,
armload, mallard
kenken
1 5 4 2 3
3 1 5 4 2
4 2 3 1 5
2 3 1 5 4
5 4 2 3 1
Puzzle Pages, May 2024 Answers – Page 2
checking in
Match each real or imaginary hotel with its corresponding word or phrase
Answer:
Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson
Amsterdam Hilton – “The Ballad of John and Yoko”
Overlook Hotel – Shining
Hotel Yorba – The White Stripes
Park Hyatt Tokyo – lost in Translation
Hotel California – The Eagles
Fawlty Towers – Manual
Bates Motel – crazy
Real Exotic Marigold Hotel – Udaipur
Caesar’s Palace – hangover
Fancy a cuppa?
Identify whether each of the following is a type of tea or coffee
Answer:
rooibos tea
Kopi Luwak – Coffee
matcha tea
Hawaiian Kona – Coffee
Mocha – Coffee
Gunpowder – Tea
pu-erh – tea
Blue Mountain – Coffee
Oolong tea
Harar – Coffee
neighbors say
Associate each animal with the noise it makes in different languages
Answer:
Rooster – ü-Ürü-ü (Turkish)
Pig – Hunk (Albanian)
sheep – ma (Finnish)
Cat – Yeong (Korean)
Mouse – Pip-Pip (Swedish)
dog – blaf-blaf (Dutch)
cow – muh (Indonesian)
Duck – Cua-cua (Spanish)
Frog – Brekke (Hungarian)
horse – i-haaa (Polish)
Riddler
Which switch?
Which switch?
You are standing at a closed door that leads to a windowless room. You can’t see inside the room, but you’re told that there is a lamp in the middle of the room with a light bulb in it. Next to you is a panel of three switches; One of them switches the lamp on and off. You have been told that the lamp is currently off. Your task is to find which switch controls the lamp. You can turn the switch on and off either way, but you can only open the door once. And, once you open it, you can’t touch any switch again.
How do you determine which switch controls a light bulb? (Hint: This is not a trick of play on words, but a real physical problem that could have been solved if you had been in that place.)
Answer:
First flip the switch and leave it on for a few minutes. Then turn it off again, and turn on the second switch – they immediately open the door and go inside. If the light is on, you know the second switch is the one that controls the lamp. If the light is off, place your hand on the bulb and feel it. A warm bulb means that the switch may have turned the light on first. If it’s cold to the touch, the only other option is to use a third switch that controls the light.
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