| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| O – Academy Award, or poet and playwright Wilde | Oscar | 94%
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| I – a lettuce, or something that can sink a ship (rather famously in 1912) | Iceberg | 93%
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| N – U.S. state where you can find Eiffel Tower, Caesars Palace and Luxor Pyramid | Nevada | 92%
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| F – to drop, or a season | Fall | 91%
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| U – Sergio Leone’s Western film “The Good, the Bad and the ___” | Ugly | 90%
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| V – volcano that erupted and destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii | Mount Vesuvius | 88%
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| A – Mozart’s middle name as he called himself | Amadé | 86%
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| Z – country formerly known as Rhodesia | Zimbabwe | 84%
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| L – Carrie Fisher’s role in Star Wars | Leia | 83%
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| R – in Game of Thrones, birds that are used to send messages, or a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe | Raven | 83%
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| Y – Big Apple is a new version of this cathedral city in England | York | 80%
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| C – country known as Hrvatska in their own language | Croatia | 79%
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| D – cartoon character whose nephews are Kwik, Kwek & Kwak in Dutch | Donald Duck | 79%
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| P – Ross, Chandler, Joey, Rachel, Monica, _____ | Phoebe | 78%
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| T – sport played at Flushing Meadows in September and Melbourne Park in January | Tennis | 78%
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| H – a success in the entertainment industry, or what Alan B. Shepard did to two golf balls on the Moon | Hit | 77%
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| G – a sequence of DNA | Gene | 74%
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| E – country that elected its first female president in 2016 | Estonia | 68%
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| S – a product that has largely replaced Walkmans, watches, navigators and landlines | Smartphone | 67%
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| M – Mao has one, Lenin has one, but the first one was built for King Mausolus | Mausoleum | 65%
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| K – large desert in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa | Kalahari | 62%
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| W – John Lennon’s original middle name, given to him after a U.K. Prime Minister | Winston | 61%
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| X – 42 in Roman numerals | XLII | 54%
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| B – in Fortnite, this transports you to the Island at the beginning of every game | Battle Bus | 49%
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| J – David Bowie’s real surname | Jones | 38%
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| Q – Joël Dicker novel, “The Truth About the Harry ____ Affair” | Quebert | 5%
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