| Initial letter | Clue | Word ending in U | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| F | Common virus | Flu | 100%
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| M | List of food available in a restaurant | Menu | 100%
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| E | Also from Australia, a large flightless bird | Emu | 97%
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| B | Another word from French, for a desk or a department | Bureau | 92%
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| Y | Pronoun which is one of the top 20 commonest words in English | You | 92%
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| R | Italian meat sauce | Ragu | 89%
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| T | Archaic word for "you" | Thou | 89%
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| G | A Hindu spiritual teacher | Guru | 86%
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| P | Flat hilltop | Plateau | 86%
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| S | Japanese number puzzle | Sudoku | 86%
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| H | Japanese poem | Haiku | 81%
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| C | Reindeer | Caribou | 78%
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| L | From the French for "place", meaning in place of, instead | Lieu | 68%
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| N | A Greek letter and useful Scrabble word | Nu | 65%
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| K | Chinese martial art, usually spelled with a space | Kungfu | 49%
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| X | Vietnamese coin worth one hundredth of a dong | Xu | 49%
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| I | Improvised | Impromptu | 46%
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| Z | Asian relative of the cow | Zebu | 41%
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| U | Southern African philosophy of interconnectedness which has given its name to a version of Linux | Ubuntu | 35%
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| V | Haitian religion, the word being related to the superstition of sticking pins into dolls to hurt real people | Vodou | 27%
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| J | A Nigerian belief system and style of music | Juju | 22%
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| A | Comment that makes an illuminating or entertaining point (from French, "noticed") | Aperçu | 19%
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| D | Alternative spelling of a traditional Aboriginal musical instrument | Didjeridu | 14%
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| Q | Ancient Andean device which used strings to record data | Quipu | 8%
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| O | A decorative process for ornaments which originally applied a gold–mercury amalgam to bronze | Ormolu | 5%
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| W | Chinese word for martial arts | Wushu | 5%
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