| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| J – Thai fragrant rice, or Disney princess from “Aladdin” | Jasmine | 92%
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| G – entryways to hell such as Mount Etna, or the richest Bill in the world | Gates | 91%
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| V – American football team Minnesota _____, referring to Scandinavian seafaring warriors | Vikings | 88%
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| X – a musical instrument that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets; the name means “sound of wood” | Xylophone | 86%
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| A – the only continent without active volcanoes | Australia | 84%
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| N – Keanu Reeves character in “The Matrix”, or a prefix meaning new | Neo | 84%
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| H – someone coming from the second-largest city in Germany, or a hot sandwich that you cannot escape nowadays even in North Korea | Hamburger | 82%
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| M – to intend, or the average of a set of values | Mean | 82%
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| Z – to compress files, or a clothing innovation from the late 19th century | Zip | 81%
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| D – matter that accounts for about 85% of the matter in the universe, or where Bruce Springsteen is dancing | Dark | 80%
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| E – H. C. Andersen’s tale “The ______'s New Clothes” | Emperor | 79%
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| U – short name for any German (military) submarine | U-boat | 77%
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| C – Swedish athlete Klüft, or two U.S. states | Carolina | 73%
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| W – Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 fantasy film “The Shape of ____” | Water | 70%
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| B – fibre-rich part of cereal grains, or the Stark boy pushed out the window (by Jaime Lannister saying, “The things I do for love”) | Bran | 69%
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| O – 2017 game Super Mario _____, refers also to one very, very long journey from Troy to Ithaca | Odyssey | 69%
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| F – discovered penicillin and predicted the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria | Alexander Fleming | 68%
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| L – elf in “The Lord of the Rings” who has a Danish plastic block in his name | Legolas | 66%
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| P – the northern major island of the country of São Tomé and ______ | Príncipe | 63%
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| R – something you can do with a troublemaker or in a boat, or a line of regularly spaced objects | Row | 62%
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| Y – vertical axis on a graph | Y-axis | 60%
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| I – the innermost and third largest of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter | Io | 55%
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| K – if you were a teenage girl in the 90s, you probably know what K in NKOTB is | Kids | 53%
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| S – to hurt with a sharp point, or Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner | Sting | 41%
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| Q – Sue Grafton’s mystery novel "Q Is for ____” about a body found near an open-pit mine | Quarry | 36%
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| T – capital city previously known as Reval and whose current name possibly means “Danish town” or “winter-castle” | Tallinn | 31%
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