| Initial | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Surname of famous quarterback Tom | Brady | 100%
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| L | Canadian peninsula, and a breed of dog | Labrador | 89%
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| F | Unit of capacitance, named after English physicist Michael | Farad | 78%
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| G | Slow, bit-by-bit - not sudden | Gradual | 78%
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| D | From Spanish, a desperate person | Desperado | 67%
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| H | Herb of the mustard family used as a whitish sauce | Horseradish | 67%
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| U | University student, ie one who has not yet passed their final exams | Undergraduate | 67%
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| E | Send abroad to be tried in a court in the country where a criminal charge was made | Extradite | 56%
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| V | City originally named Tsaritsyn, and infamous for its 1942-43 battle | Volgograd | 56%
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| C | State the opposite of; argue against | Contradict | 44%
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| S | Have one leg either side of, as in a person on a horse | Straddle | 44%
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| R | The angle at the centre of a circle created by an arc which is the same length as the radius; there are 2π of these in a full 360° circle | Radian | 33%
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| K | Unit of absorbed radiation equal to 100,000 ergs of energy per gram of material | Kilorad | 22%
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| M | Pretend surreptitiously to be someone else | Masquerade | 22%
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| O | Change the value of, but go too far in the other direction | Overadjust | 22%
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| P | A seemingly contradictory statement which is nonetheless true | Paradox | 22%
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| T | Late-sounding invertebrate which can survive the vacuum of space, freezing, boiling, extreme pressure and lethal doses of radiation | Tardigrade | 22%
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| A | Car and street are the components which form a Spanish motorway | Autostrada | 11%
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| W | Confused bear downs tent, at a town near Sarasota, Florida; being the suburb which is nearer the Gulf coast | West Bradenton | 11%
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| I | Impossible to make extinct or wipe out entirely; permanent | Ineradicable | 11%
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| J | Located in eastern Morocco, a town near the Algerian border | Jerada | 11%
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| N | Unable to be broken down, rot, or decay | Nondegradable | 11%
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| Q | A ravine, from the Spanish verb meaning "broken" | Quebrada | 11%
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| Y | Dry yachtsman, clearly lost, found inland in Welsh town | Ystrad Mynach | 11%
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| X | A type of X-ray imaging in which a picture of the body is recorded on paper rather than on film | Xeroradiography | 0%
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| Z | Large Moscow suburb whose name seems to pay tribute to a famous Ukrainian | Zelenograd | 0%
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