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Welcome to the 'Passport Puzzle page' of the EIS
web site.
Solutions for Puzzle pages – July
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1 Moscow foot Bridges
Top row: Frunzenskaya – Bolotnaya (over the canal) – Kievskaya
Bottom: Prechistenskaya (over the river, next to Christ the
Saviour) - Luzhkov (the wedding bridge) – Tessinssky (on the Yauza)
2 Bridge walks
Neither Konigsberg nor Moscow can be walked in a single tour, as in
each case there are more than two places with 1, 3 or 5 routes. With
an odd number of routes, you must start or finish there, so there
can be no more than two places like this. In both cities, building
or removing any bridge, anywhere allows the walk to be done. Try it!
3 Age puzzles
The students are 16: 23 x2 this year, 3x5 last year;
I could be 40 (23 x2 now, after 3x13); 56 (23x7,
5x11) or 88 (23 x11, 3x29);
Which? Now that is a secret. Irreverent of you to ask.
Apologies! Thank you to the sharp eyed reader who noticed I missed a
set. I could also be:
23 (now 13 x23, earlier 2x11), 47 ( now 13x47;
earlier 2x23), 59 ( 13x59, earlier 2x29) or 83 (now 13x83,
earlier 2x41).
So I have seven possible ages. I feel old.
A bottle of French wine to anyone who finds any other answers I have
missed!
Solutions to June edition puzzles
A quartet of Creative Cubs
This was not meant to be a mystery sotry, we
made a mistake and missed the last sentence. Sorry! Did you guess
the ending?
Here it is:
Lisa asked the cubs what they thought of
their busy summer. The twins said that they had learned from their
mistakes, which prompted Sasha and Boris to declare:
“If a job is worth doing, it
is worth doing badly!”
Bird puzzles
The five bird pictures, left to right, are:
Chaffinch – Greenfinch – Blue Tit – Tree
Creeper – Great Tit.
Mini Sudoku
Sudoku – solution for June
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Magic Squares
A few more to play with.
Magic number 21:
Magic number 18:
Magic number 12:
Magic number 15:
Passport –
April 2010
Photo quiz:
Top - from left
Kazan Cathedral, Red Square - Christ the Saviour - St Basil's -
The Tretyakov Gallery - St Clement's, Zamoskvareche
Detail photos, from left:
St Clement's - Kazan Cathedral - Tretyakov doors - St Basil's
arch - Christ the Saviour frieze
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Solutions March 2010
1 &2 Picture quiz Statues (left to right)
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1 Vladimir Shukov
Engineer
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2 Yuri Gagarin
Cosmonaut
Leninsky Pr. |
3 Joseph Stalin
Garden of the fallen monuments |
4 Mayakovsky
Poet
On Tverskaya |
5 Felix Derzhinsky
Founder of Cheka / KGB |
6 Pavel Tretyakov
Art collector & benefactor,
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5 Radio tower at Shabalovskaya,
by Shukov
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3 Space monument and museum, VDNKh |
4 Hotel Ukrainia one of the Stalin skyscrapers |
6 Metro station of same name |
1 KGB/FSB HQ, Lubyanka |
2 street sculpture outside Tretyakov gallery |
3 Wordsearch, at least 21:
Across: greasy survive exploits cats adventure grin
Up and down: Sasha heave cheesy fun suburb see
Diagonal: inventive fox dog roses save vast be had do
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Passport March 2010 (med)
Passport Magazine, February 2010
Family pages: answers
Bad Art – suggested captions.
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6 Pig going round a barn
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8 Forgetful hedgehog |
9 Mexican riding
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10 Mexican frying
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11 Two Mexicans
having a siesta |
12 Vicious circle |
13 Sunrise, without
my spectacles |
14 Sunrise, seen by
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15 Sunrise, seen
by a fly |
16 Sunrise, seen by
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17 St Basil’s, seen
by a bird |
18 Red Square, seen
by Malevich |
19 Lenin’s tomb,
seen by a bird |
20 Moonrise seen
from the Kremlin |
Try these places for more
inspiration: Lascaux caves, Picasso, Roger Price (who coined the
term ‘Droodles’), George Tuckwell, Malevich, The New Tretyakov, my
Y10s’ homework diaries.
How many Triangles? 48!
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Passport Family puzzle page –
January 2010
World Cup Flags
1. The initial letters for these flags
spell “Fun And Games’:
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Algeria |
Greece |
| United States |
New Zealand |
Argentina |
| Nigeria |
Denmark |
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2. Symmetry
These flags have no symmetry (O); Line
symmetry (L) ; Rotational symmetry (R), or both
(Note – these answers depend on not looking
TOO closely at the flags small details!)
S Africa (O) Australia (O) S Korea (L,R)
Germany (L) Japan (L,R) Portugal (L)
3. Match the flag to the Country – from
left to right, the flags belong to :
Cameroon Uruguay Chile Paraguay Ivory Coast
Honduras N Korea
4. Countries and capital cities, left to
right
Brazil Ghana Netherlands Serbia Slovenia
Slovakia
Brasilia Accra Amsterdam Belgrade Ljubljana
Bratislava
5. Who will win? Who knows, but if the
‘filters’ here work the possibilities include:
France Nigeria Denmark Mexico England S
Africa Germany Portugal
Ivory Coast Brazil Netherlands
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