| Initial | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | The pleasant smell of food | Aroma | 100%
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| R | Country where Bucharest is located | Romania | 50%
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| B | Type of chemical, a negative ion with formula BrO₃ | Bromate | 30%
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| L | A self-service laundrette | Laundromat | 30%
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| N | Wizard who uses magic powers to summon the dead | Necromancer | 30%
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| C | Word similar to a metal element, but meaning relating to colours, or the music scale that has every note | Chromatic | 20%
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| D | Bring back down to Earth; remove the hyperbole or poetic aspect from; make prosaic, mundane | Deromanticize | 20%
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| E | One of the four fundamental forces of nature, involving positive and negative charges | Electromagnetism | 20%
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| U | Disinterested in showing affection, passion, etc | Unromantic | 20%
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| F | A first benign tumour consisting of a certain type of material | Fibroma | 10%
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| G | Divination in which someone walking around a circle falls from dizziness and prognosticates from the place of the fall | Gyromancy | 10%
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| H | A supposedly enjoyable experience aimed at soothing the muscles, in which the skin is blasted with jets of water | Hydromassage | 10%
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| I | Of a colour which is so constant | Isochromatic | 10%
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| K | Compromising information that is used to blackmail or discredit a person or group usually for political purposes, a term deriving from Russian | Kompromat | 10%
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| M | Interfere with in too detailed a way | Micromanage | 10%
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| O | Of the mouth and lower jaw | Oromandibular | 10%
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| P | Of a group comprising animals immediately ancestral to the order which includes humans and cats | Promammalian | 10%
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| Q | Village in Peru that a crashed car can be seen at one end of | Queromarca | 10%
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| S | Mound of cyanobacteria; these released the Earth's first significant amounts of atmospheric oxygen, paving the way for all complex life | Stromatolite | 10%
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| W | The region closely linked to what became the Byzantine Empire, but less far east | Western Roman Empire | 10%
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| X | A process for taking images of breasts using X-rays, related to a word for photocopying | Xeromammography | 10%
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| Y | Russian town where hairy Himalayan bovid is seen, with horns starting to show | Yakhroma | 10%
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| J | A cult site devoted to the leader of Rani, originally Slavic tribesmen, which formed a settlement on the German island of Rügen | Jaromarsburg | 0%
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| T | Anti-psychotic tranquilizer with formula C₁₈H₁₉F₃N₂S·HCl, where the F₃ is a key part of the name; phosphorus still needs to be added, and the second half of a periodical publication | Triflupromazine | 0%
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| V | Village in Provence where there is no capital for a house; the lettuce is in good condition, though | Vaison-la-Romaine | 0%
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| Z | An antibiotic with no Western application, but an extra factor in the end | Zithromax | 0%
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