| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| E – 2011 hit by Katy Perry ft. Kanye West, or the cute alien who phoned home and was later picked up by his folk | E.T. | 92%
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| K – Mortal _____, a fantasy-themed fighting game | Kombat | 90%
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| I – the only country in the world that has no mosquitos | Iceland | 89%
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| L – Hunger Games star Jennifer, or the river that flows through Montreal (Saint _____) | Lawrence | 89%
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| W – two of these don't make a right | Wrongs | 87%
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| G – a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust and dark matter | Galaxy | 86%
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| J – global manufacturer and distributor of branded baths and hot tubs; the name is used as a genericized trademark to describe hot tubs | Jacuzzi | 84%
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| R – Morgan Freeman’s role in “The Shawshank Redemption”; does not describe the colour of his hair | Red | 84%
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| Q – a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious disease; the word comes from “forty days” in Venetian | Quarantine | 83%
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| H – a person suffering from acrophobia is afraid of … | Heights | 81%
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| A – A in NATO | Atlantic | 78%
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| N – to cut in a minor way, or first name of English writer Hornby (“About a Boy”, “High Fidelity”) | Nick | 77%
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| U – Scotland's national "animal" | Unicorn | 77%
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| C – an accusation, or to juice up one’s phone | Charge | 72%
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| T – a character in Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”; about 20 years later her namesake became British Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher | 70%
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| D – this British TV series about the Crawley family and their domestic servants is shown in over 220 countries and territories | Downton Abbey | 68%
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| Y – I (first person) in Spanish | Yo | 68%
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| B – freshwater lake that contains more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined | Baikal | 60%
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| M – Ecatepec and León are among the largest cities in this country | Mexico | 56%
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| P – country where Port Moresby is the capital | Papua New Guinea | 53%
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| V – a closely woven fabric; is black for Alannah Myles | Velvet | 53%
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| S – Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili, who started to use a name that means “Man of Steel” and was Time magazine’s "Man of the Year" in 1942 | Joseph Stalin | 50%
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| F – globally, the third most popular sport by size of fan base; team includes ten field players and a goalkeeper | Field hockey | 43%
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| O – six-time German Olympic swimming champion Kristin, or three-time Holy Roman Emperor | Otto | 25%
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| X – food additive and sugar substitute that may promote better dental health | Xylitol | 15%
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| Z – Carlos Ruiz _____, author of “The Shadow of the Wind” | Zafón | 5%
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