| Initial letter | Clue | Name ending in K | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Director of The Birds and other films of the 1920s-70s | Alfred Hitchcock | 95%
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| B | First name of a modern US president | Barack | 95%
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| D | Fictional whale, Moby | Dick | 95%
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| C | Surname of Captain James, the first European to reach eastern Australia and Hawaii | Cook | 90%
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| E | 10th century Viking "The Red" who established the first European settlement in Greenland | Erik | 90%
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| G | Language which has influenced many words in English | Greek | 90%
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| J | Forename of golfer Nicklaus and writer Kerouac | Jack | 90%
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| K | Rapper Lamar and actress Anna | Kendrick | 81%
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| P | US president James | Polk | 76%
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| T | Actor who starred in Magnum, P.I. | Tom Selleck | 76%
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| Z | Rage Against The Machine vocalist de la Rocha | Zak | 67%
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| Y | Character whose skull appears in Hamlet | Yorick | 62%
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| S | American director of 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 57%
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| I | Russian city and territory in the game Risk | Irkutsk | 52%
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| M | Surname of comedian Lee | Mack | 52%
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| Q | Glasgow football club who were a force in the 1800s | Queens Park | 52%
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| R | British prime minister of the 2020s | Rishi Sunak | 52%
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| F | 12th century Holy Roman Emperor known as Barbarossa | Frederick | 48%
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| V | Football ground in Birmingham | Villa Park | 48%
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| H | Football team from Split in Croatia | Hadjuk | 38%
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| L | City taken by Russia in the war with Ukraine | Luhansk | 29%
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| O | Croatian city | Osijek | 29%
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| X | Old model of Jaguar car | XJK | 29%
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| U | Public garden in Edinburgh with a pro-British name | Union Park | 24%
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| W | Early British prime minister with a double-barrelled surname | William Cavendish-Bentinck | 14%
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| N | Modern Polish women's 400m runner | Natalia Kaczmarek | 5%
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