| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| M – Nelson who was 27 years in prison and 5 years a president | Mandela | 95%
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| A – pulled a sword out of a stone and became King | Arthur | 94%
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| O – world's largest annual beer festival, which starts in September | Oktoberfest | 93%
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| B – not timid, not italics | Bold | 92%
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| W – ____ Side Story, 1961 movie that won 10 Oscars | West | 92%
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| C – an insect in the order Orthoptera, or a game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven | Cricket | 89%
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| F – fantasy novel series A Song of Ice And ___; the first book is A Game of Thrones | Fire | 87%
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| N – something often followed by “pad”, or a symbol denoting a musical sound | Note | 87%
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| R – to store sound or video in a permanent medium, or what many athletes dream about and sometimes set | Record | 87%
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| K – first name of the boy who ruined the burglars’ day in Home Alone | Kevin | 86%
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| Y – Babe Ruth’s New York team | Yankees | 84%
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| J – word that appears in the real names of Snoop Dogg, Sammy Davis and the Iron Man actor | Jr. | 83%
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| I – fully protective resistance against infection | Immunity | 81%
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| U – line on the Berlin U-Bahn, or an Irish band | U2 | 78%
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| H – city served by George Bush Intercontinental Airport | Houston | 77%
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| L – a social networking service; its logo has white letters “in” on a blue background | 76%
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| S – if you journeyed from Niamey to Algiers, you’d cross this area | Sahara | 72%
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| T – a fee paid for some privilege, or what the bell does in the title of a Hemingway novel | Toll | 72%
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| V – a traveller, or name of two space probes that were launched in 1977 and are still active | Voyager | 65%
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| E – is “Irrtum” in German, or “bug” in the computer world | Error | 59%
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| Q – playing card that is “dame de piques” in French | Queen of spades | 54%
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| G – country where wine was first produced | Georgia | 48%
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| D – capital city whose name includes an extinct flightless bird | Dodoma | 36%
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| X – brand name of smartphones and tablets from Sony; the name is derived from the word “experience” | Xperia | 31%
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| P – currency of Botswana, or a city in Croatia | Pula | 17%
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| Z – a motor scooter by Yamaha, or the aquatic rescue pup in PAW Patrol | Zuma | 10%
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