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Hint
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Answer
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A – mountain range close to San Marino
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Apennine Mountains
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B – follows death, precedes rock
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Bed
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C – Hernán who named the conquered territory “New Spain”
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Cortés
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D – 40–40 in tennis
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Deuce
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E – a certain key on the keyboard, or what Metallica’s Sandman does
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Enter
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F – would love to keep making these quizzes forever, but I have bigger fish to ___
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Fry
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G – Hugh starring in Notting Hill, or what can be applied for
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Grant
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H – a type of attack that killed, for example, Christopher Reeve, or a card suit
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Heart
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I – South Korean singer from Red Velvet, or William Steig’s picture book Brave _____
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Irene
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J – first name of Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine
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Jonas
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K – tlhIngan Hol (constructed language spoken by a fictional alien race in Star Trek)
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Klingon
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L – country where 260 million bombs were dropped in less than a decade
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Laos
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M – American TV detective Adrian (played by Tony Shalhoub), who would appreciate that I have exactly 100 quizzes in this series
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Monk
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N – Ryan Gosling film The ________, based on the 1996 novel by Nicholas Sparks, or a class of laptop computer
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Notebook
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O – between Xi and Pi
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Omicron
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P – if you were a dog in the 1890s, this was the most likely person to measure how much you salivate
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Ivan Pavlov
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Q – one of four kiddies, or ____ bike, a four-wheeled vehicle
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Quad
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R – Daphne du Maurier’s most famous novel; the title is a woman’s name used in many countries – in Filipino, its variation is Becbec
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Rebecca
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S – Mars-day, a Mexican beer, or the currency of Peru
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Sol
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T – from 2014 to 2020, considered to be the only democratic state in the Arab world
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Tunisia
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U – Massive Attack’s hit “__________ Sympathy”
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Unfinished
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V – first name of Belgian football (soccer) manager Kompany, or St. _______ and Grenadines
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Vincent
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W – die Hauptstadt von Österreich
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Wien
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X – indigenous peoples of Brazil living near the _____ River; rhymes with an animated little penguin
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Xingu
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Y – code for Toronto Pearson International Airport (which sounds like something a drunken geometrician might write)
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YYZ
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Z – the number of AK’s General Knowledge A-Z quizzes published after this one
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Zero
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