Puzzle Pages – answers for Summer 2025!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the Summer 2025 issue of Expat Living magazine in Hong Kong. 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 2025 answers – Page 1

Q&A

1. What do you call the sharp claws of a bird of prey?
2. The city of Amritsar in India is famous for which landmark?
3. What punctuation always appears at the end of an interrogative sentence?
4. What British crime drama TV series starring Brenda Blethyn finished earlier this year after a 14-year run?
5. Name two of the five countries that end in the letter “L”.
6. Who was Orlando Bloom’s first wife?
7. What word do cheesemakers use to refer to the holes found in Swiss cheese?
8. How many edges does a cube have?
9. A hit song from the film Encanto was “We Don’t Talk About…” who?
10. Starting with “w” is what Japanese word pertaining to the philosophy of finding beauty in imperfection?

Answers:

1. Talons
2. Golden Temple
3. Question mark
4. Vera
5. Brazil, Israel, Nepal, Portugal, Senegal
6. Miranda Kerr
7. Eyes
8. Twelve
9. Bruno
10. Wabi-sabi

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: boyfriend

others:

boyf, defo, defy, fend, fern, fido, find, fine, fire,

foin, fond, ford, fore, froe, rife, brief, deify, edify,
ferny, fibre, fiend, fiery, fined, finer, fired, foyer,
fried, frond, infer, reify, fibred, finder, finery, foined,
fonder, forbid, friend, redfin, refind, bonfire, indyref

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, Summer 2025 answers – Page 2

PALINDROME PUZZLER

Was it a car or a cat I saw? Neither – it was a palindrome quiz! Answers to the descriptions below all read the same way forwards as backwards (e.g., (Midday = “noon”)

Answers:

Small watertight boat – kayak
More crimson – redder
Having a smooth, flat surface – level
Swedish pop band – ABBA
Of the shoulder: _____ cuff – rotator
System that uses waves to detect unseen objects – radar
Tennis player Monica – Seles
Courteous form of address for a woman – madam (or ma’am)
A half-note in music – minim
Made into a god – deified

MOVIE QUOTES

Can you name the movies that these 10 quotes come from? We’ve given you the year that each film came out as a clue.

Answers:

• “Chicken jockey!” (2025) – A Minecraft Movie
• “I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.” (1997) – Titanic
• “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes!” (1981) – Raiders of the Lost Ark
• “On Wednesdays we wear pink.” (2004) – Mean Girls
• “I’ll be back.” (1984) – Terminator
• “If I’m going to be a partner in a law firm by the time I’m 30, I’m going to need a boyfriend who’s not such a complete bonehead.” (2001) – Legally Blonde
• “I drink your milkshake!” (2007) – There Will Be Blood
• “In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you” (2022) – Everything Everywhere All At Once
• “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” (1986) – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• “Vote for Pedro.” (2004) – Napoleon Dynamite

PEOPLE POWER

Out of the two countries or territories listed in each line, which has the bigger population?

Answers:

• Malaysia | Thailand – Thailand, 70 million (Malaysia, 34 million)
• South Africa | Egypt – Egypt, 118 million (South Africa, 64 million)
• Falkland Islands | Vatican City – Falkland Islands, 3,400 (Vatican City, 800)
• Canada | Australia – Canada, 41 million (Australia, 27 million)
• Brazil | USA – USA, 347 million (Brazil, 212 million)
• Switzerland | The Netherlands – The Netherlands, 18 million (Switzerland, 8 million)
• India | China – India, 1.46 billion (China, 1.41 billion)
• United Kingdom | Italy – UK, 68 million (Italy, 58 million)
• Latvia | New Zealand – New Zealand, 5.3 million (Latvia, 1.8 million)
• Hong Kong | Singapore – Hong Kong, 7.5 million (Singapore, 5.8 million)

THE RIDDLER

What saying is represented below?

theAzer theBzer theCzer theDzer theEzer
theFzer theGzer theHzer theIzer theJzer
theKzer theLzer theMzer theNzer theOzer
thePzer theQzer theRzer theSzer theTzer
theUzer theVzer theWzer theXzer theZzer 

 Answers:

None the wiser (there is no “theYzer” in the text)

Liked our Summer issue Puzzle Pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia!

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