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Welcome to the 'Passport Puzzle page' of the EIS
web site.
EIS pupils and teachers made up and tested the games and puzzles
which fill the
Family Pages of Passport magazine, from December 2009 onwards.
Below are the solutions to the puzzles. Enjoy!
If you have ideas for more puzzles, please send them in - we are
keen to open the
pages to new talent: you will get your name in print.
Solutions March 2010
1 &2 Picture quiz Statues (left to right)
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1 Vladimir Shukov
Engineer
Chisty Prudy |
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,
Outside his gallery |
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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
4 Sudoku
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Passport March 2010 (med)
Passport Magazine, February 2010
Family pages: answers
Bad Art – suggested captions.
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1 A square |
2 Something that
looks square
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3 A round
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4 Something that
looks round |
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5 Bear climbing a tree
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6 Pig going round a barn
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7 Shark infested
custard |
8 Forgetful hedgehog |
9 Mexican riding
a bike |
10 Mexican frying
an egg |
11 Two Mexicans
having a siesta |
12 Vicious circle |
13 Sunrise, without
my spectacles |
14 Sunrise, seen by
on a bat
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15 Sunrise, seen
by a fly |
16 Sunrise, seen by
a goldfishh |
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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Smallest, side1 |
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grey
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10 white, 3 grey
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6 white, 0 grey |
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Passport Family puzzle page –
January 2010
World Cup Flags
1. The initial letters for these flags
spell “Fun And Games’:
| France |
Algeria |
Greece |
| United States |
New Zealand |
Argentina |
| Nigeria |
Denmark |
Mexico |
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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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