| Clue | Place | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Country in western Asia | Armenia | 94%
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| T | Country in Asia | Turkmenistan | 76%
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| S | The state capital of California | Sacramento | 64%
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| B | Large river port in northern Germany | Bremen | 61%
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| C | Common Hispanic place name; also an opera, and description of garage mechanics | Carmen | 61%
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| X | Chinese megacity on the Taiwan strait | Xiamen | 55%
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| N | The capital of Chad | N'Djamena | 36%
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| O | Dutch town with a population of a thousand | Ommen | 33%
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| M | Sleepy-sounding World Cup host city in the Andes of Argentina | Mendoza | 30%
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| D | S.E. Norwegian city where sheep can be found | Drammen | 24%
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| E | Dutch locale where Van Gogh once resided, in the eastern province of Drenthe | Emmen | 24%
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| P | Opera-singing mechanics return, this time on the beach in a Mexican resort | Playa del Carmen | 18%
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| J | Cuban cocktail of Christ Almighty and a parent-killing brother | Jesus Menendez | 9%
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| W | Fort Worth suburb, so-called because it was founded by people of European origin amid Native American villages; also famous for its cat, Browser, who the municipality tried to evict from the library, but who was eventually allowed to go on living there | White Settlement | 9%
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| I | German town where we hear the sick fellows cry of pain | Ilmenau | 6%
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| U | Ford written off on outskirts of Bavarian town | Ummendorf | 6%
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| Y | Mysterious Chinese place in Gansu, initially listed by one database as a city of 350,000 population, yet a Google search for it has no results for such a place and the Maps entry for its name and Gansu province indicates a spot where no roads lead to | Yingmen | 6%
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| V | Yet more operatic automobile techs appear at the house in Nicaragua | Villa El Carmen | 3%
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| F | Town in Veracruz, Mexico; if P. Cunk changed gender and married midfielder Juan, this might be her new name | Filomeno Mata | 0%
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| G | Starting at Geneva, north goes east and velocity vanishes, to end up in D.R. Congo (perhaps due to Large Hadron Collider?) | Gemena | 0%
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| H | Wisconsin town for old men | Holmen | 0%
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| K | The port again, and a friend, seen mostly in Ukraine | Kremenchuk | 0%
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| L | Delivery of our woman to Brazil | Livramento de Nossa Senhora | 0%
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| Q | Maltese grandmaster in compressed state with standing stone | Qasam Tal-Menħir | 0%
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| R | Moscow suburb where I agree there's nothing in the air | Ramenskoye | 0%
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| Z | Say no prayers for this closed town in Russia, off-limits due to its missile testing site | Znamensk | 0%
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