| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A – U.S. state that shares a border with Florida and Mississippi | Alabama | 96%
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| E – deadly virus that caused the 2013–2016 epidemic in Western Africa with over 11,000 deaths | Ebola | 94%
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| J – New Jersey band Bon ____, hits include “It’s My Life” and “You Give Love a Bad Name” | Jovi | 93%
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| D – first name of the woman in the back seat of the Mercedes speeding towards Paris’ Pont de l’Alma tunnel on August 31, 1997, at 12:23 a.m. | Diana | 92%
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| Z – sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion | Zeus | 91%
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| B – Disney film with Scottish princess Merida, or Aldous Huxley’s novel “_____ New World” | Brave | 89%
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| H – a Middle Eastern dip, spread, or savoury dish made from chickpeas blended with tahini, lemon juice and garlic | Hummus | 89%
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| Y – a light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water | Yacht | 86%
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| G – country that is locally known as Hellas or Ellada | Greece | 85%
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| R – boy who founded Rome with his twin brother and whose tomb was allegedly found in 2020 | Romulus | 83%
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| W – Natasha Romanoff is known as superhero Black _____ | Widow | 83%
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| N – a songbird, or Florence who got the wild idea that nursing might require education | Nightingale | 82%
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| L – time away from one's work, or what you can never do in Hotel California | Leave | 81%
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| Q – incorporated into New York City in 1898 | Queens | 81%
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| T – to monitor the movement of a person or object, or a song on a CD | Track | 80%
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| F – not dark, not unjust | Fair | 76%
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| P – home video game console first released in December 1994 in Japan | PlayStation | 72%
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| C – Justin Timberlake’s hit “____ ____ the Feeling!” | Can't Stop | 65%
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| U – the only national capital in the world that starts with U | Ulaanbaatar | 63%
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| K – among the 1000 most common words in English, the only one that starts “ke” | Keep | 62%
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| I – word appearing in the (English) name of a country, or building material of a metaphorical tower | Ivory | 50%
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| V – DBC Pierre’s debut novel “_____ God Little”, or Harry Potter’s uncle | Vernon | 44%
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| X – first name of politician Becerra and Belgian retired professional tennis player Malisse | Xavier | 43%
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| O – a Mars rover, or what is needed in addition to means and motive to indicate one's guilt in a criminal trial | Opportunity | 38%
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| M – Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and ______ | Miranda | 33%
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| S – human-readable instructions in a programming language, or a 2011 movie where a soldier is repeatedly sent into a computed reality to find a bomber on a train | Source Code | 11%
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