The jigsaw history puzzle

 

PART 3: For questions 17–24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

Example: INTRIGUING

The jigsaw history puzzle

Of all the games in the world, the jigsaw puzzle must be among the most widely known. Yet its early history presents an (0)________(INTRIGUE) puzzle of its own.

Officially, the jigsaw puzzle (17)________(ORIGIN) in England, and its (18)________(INVENT) was John Spilsbury, a London engraver and map maker. It is also an apparently (19)________(DISPUTE) fact that in 1767 Spilsbury created a puzzle, (20)________(INITIAL) known as a 'dissected map', by mounting one of his maps on a piece of hardwood and cutting around the borders of the countries. His puzzles came to be used in schools to help children learn geography.

However, as is almost (21)________(VARIABLE) the case with inventions, some doubts have been raised about whether Spilsbury's puzzle was the first. This was an age of exploration, and new (22)________(DISCOVER) demanded that maps be constantly (23)________(DATE). There is some evidence that two Dutch map makers have produced map puzzles ten years before Spilsbury. The evidence is (24)________(CONCLUDE), however, and advertising for their dissected maps only appears in 1779.