| Initial letter | Clue | Answer ending in U | % Correct |
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| B | The capital of Azerbaijan | Baku | 93%
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| P | Large Andean country | Peru | 93%
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| H | The main island of Japan | Honshu | 90%
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| K | The capital of Nepal | Kathmandu | 90%
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| V | Country in the Pacific known for cannibalism until the 1960s or so | Vanuatu | 90%
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| J | The Alaskan state capital | Juneau | 88%
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| M | The Somali capital | Mogadishu | 88%
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| N | Tiny Pacific island country | Nauru | 86%
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| T | Pacific nation whose atolls barely make it above sea level | Tuvalu | 86%
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| U | The aboriginal name for Ayers Rock | Uluru | 83%
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| C | Western Greek island, close to the Albanian coast | Corfu | 69%
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| G | City at the centre of the world's largest metropolis | Guangzhou | 64%
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| X | The summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty; also used as a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place | Xanadu | 64%
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| I | Waterfall on the Brazilian/Argentine border | Iguazu | 62%
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| O | Burkina Faso's capital city | Ouagadougou | 60%
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| D | One of South Korea's biggest cities | Daegu | 45%
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| R | Kenyan town by the border with Ethiopia, with a sheepish name | Ramu | 36%
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| F | French town with a chateau, south of Paris; also a Miami suburb - the name begins with the word for "fountain" | Fontainebleau | 26%
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| W | Chinese city whose name seems to start with a question about time | Wenzhou | 26%
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| E | Nigerian city; the word for a pistol, reversed, is found in its name | Enugu | 24%
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| A | The flat, raised ground next to, and named after, the long range of hills covering the eastern USA | Appalachian Plateau | 21%
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| L | City on the Yangtze in Sichuan, China | Luzhou | 21%
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| Y | Saudi city; the interior of its name is an anagram of a word meaning "prohibit" | Yanbu | 10%
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| Z | Eastern German car manufacturing centre, originally the home of Audi | Zwickau | 10%
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| S | Town near Montreal, bearing the name of a saint, on a river which has the name of a cardinal who was the principal minister to Louis XIII | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | 7%
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| Q | Large port near Xiamen in China, on the Taiwan Strait | Quanzhou | 2%
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