Puzzle Pages – answers for July 2025!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the July 2025 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, July 2025 answers – Page 1

Q&A

1. Which is hotter, a tabasco pepper or a jalapeño pepper?
2. The final episode of Season 4 of Stranger Things is airing on what date this year?
3. In mathematics, what is the name for the amount of surface contained within the boundaries of a plane figure?
4. Is the earthy scent that is produced when rain falls on dry soil known as petrichor, pemoline or permanganate?
5. Does France have four, six or eight land borders?
6. “Take Me Home, Country Roads” was a hit song in 1971 for what artist?
7. How much is a gross plus a score?
8. What car logo features the six stars of the Pleiades star cluster?
9. What are the first names of 1990s comedy duo Fry and Laurie?
10. What famous arcade video game starting with “P” turns 45 this year?

Answers:

1. Tabasco (30,000-50,000 on the Scoville scale compared with 4,000-8,000)
2. 31 December
3. Area
4. Petrichor
5. Eight (Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Andorra)
6. John Denver
7. 164
8. Subaru
9. Stephen and Hugh
10. Pac-Man

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: paperback

others:
acre, aper, area, bare, bark, bear, berk, brap,
care, carp, crab, crap, kerb, para, pare, park,
parp, pear, perk, perp, prep, race, rack, rake,
rape, reap, reck, acerb, baker, brace, brack,
brake, break, caper, carap, crape, creak, pacer,
paper, parka, recap, appear, backer, capper,
packer, repack, parbake, prepack

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, July 2025 answers – Page 2

SCRAMBLED HOUNDS

Rearrange the letters to find the ten different breeds/types of do

 Answers:

dads hunch = Dachshund
toe twirler = Rottweiler
full drench bog (two words) = French Bulldog
arab lord = Labrador
beg ale = Beagle
doorbell rice (two words) = Border Collie
doing = Dingo
jerks call us (two words) = Jack Russell
a damn tail = Dalmatian
danger eat (two words) = Great Dane

FILMS WITH PLACENAMES

Complete the movies titles below by adding a location around the world

Answers:

Muppets Take Manhattan
A Passage to India
Manchester By The Sea
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift
Raising Arizona
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Seven Years in Tibet
The Last King of Scotland
From Russia With Love

BIG WIGS OF HISTORY

Name the famous historical figures from the clues provided

Answers:

Joan of Arc
Muhammad Ali
Hannibal
Ludwig van Beethoven
Marie Curie
Charles Darwin
Sir Winston Churchill
Charlie Chaplin
Agatha Christie
Julius Caesar

THE RIDDLER

Answers:

1. Everyone onboard is married, not single.
2. Beauty. (Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder.)
3. Jill

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