| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| B – can mean either success or failure, or what Japan did to Pearl Harbor | Bomb | 97%
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| E – Amelia whose plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 and whose name begins with the organ of hearing | Earhart | 92%
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| G – Zingiber officinale, an Asian herb used as a spice, or Geri Halliwell’s Spice Girls name | Ginger | 92%
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| H – Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Kicked the ______' Nest”, referring to large wasps | Hornets | 88%
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| S – an answer to a problem, or a mixture formed by dissolving one or more substances | Solution | 88%
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| Z – “The Legend of ____”: high fantasy video game that centres on the various incarnations of Link | Zelda | 87%
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| V – a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease | Vaccine | 86%
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| Y – little greenish man saying, “Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you” | Yoda | 86%
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| F – compact car Ford ____, or, in optics, a point at which reflected rays of light converge | Focus | 85%
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| R – first name of “Mr Bean” actor Atkinson | Rowan | 84%
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| U – Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars hit “____ Funk”, or a neighbourhood or region in a city | Uptown | 84%
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| M – to look after, or something a mentalist may try to read | Mind | 83%
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| J – orphan boy who enters a magical giant peach in Roald Dahl’s novel | James | 80%
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| N – first name of an average-height person born in Corsica in 1769, who came to spend some time on various other islands as well | Napoleon | 80%
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| X – Jinping who is President of China since 2013 | Xi | 80%
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| P – if you wanted to travel from London to Oxford, you might use this train station; a bear from Peru has been named after it | Paddington | 78%
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| W – first name of ice hockey legend Gretzky, or "teenage Dirty Harry with a heart of gold" | Wayne | 78%
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| O – “Prince of Darkness” who was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 | Ozzy Osbourne | 77%
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| K – the only country in Europe starting with K (has a statue of Bill Clinton in its capital) | Kosovo | 76%
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| T – _____-Leste, country whose name means East-East | Timor | 72%
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| I – the space where interactions between humans and machines occur (user _______) | Interface | 71%
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| A – the most successful football (soccer) club from the Netherlands, or Greek mythological hero Αἴας | Ajax | 67%
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| D – L.A., Christmas eve, skyscraper, Hans Gruber vs. barefoot John McClane | Die Hard | 64%
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| C – the largest city in Sri Lanka | Colombo | 52%
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| Q – Robert Redford’s film about a scandal where a game show contestant was given the answers to the questions before the show | Quiz Show | 28%
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| L – played Dr. Dick Solomon in “3rd Rock from the Sun” and Winston Churchill in “The Crown” | John Lithgow | 23%
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