| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| B – colour of billiard (pool) ball number 2 | Blue | 98%
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| M – not April, but a U.K. Prime Minister | May | 91%
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| J – first name of American singer Legend (“All of Me”) | John | 89%
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| A – fear of spiders | Arachnophobia | 88%
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| E – secret agent Johnny, or language that has about one million words, but the average speaker only knows about 25,000 | English | 87%
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| H – tropical cyclone in the Northern Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins, equivalent to typhoon | Hurricane | 86%
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| S – messaging app launched in 2011 where pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time | Snapchat | 86%
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| Q – a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silicon-oxygen tetrahedra | Quartz | 85%
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| Y – American television soap opera The _____ and the Restless | Young | 81%
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| R – belief in and worship of a supernatural controlling power, or what R.E.M. is losing | Religion | 78%
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| W – a chain is only as strong as its _______ ____ | Weakest link | 75%
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| K – one nautical mile per hour, or what Alexander allegedly opened with a sword | Knot | 73%
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| O – comedy film A Night at the _____ with the Marx Brothers | Opera | 71%
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| V – country that was formed in 1976 when two former countries merged | Vietnam | 66%
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| N – a grappling hold in wrestling, or someone who should have mixed feelings about Trafalgar | Nelson | 61%
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| T – railway-themed board game “______ to Ride” | Ticket | 61%
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| U – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s best-known novel _____ ___’s Cabin | Uncle Tom | 60%
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| L – is “gelijk” in Dutch, or a thumbs-up sign in, well, almost everywhere | Like | 56%
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| D – the largest city outside Japan and China | Delhi | 50%
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| G – Disko Island (Qeqertarsuaq) is the second largest island of _________ | Greenland | 48%
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| P – spent 24 years on the road (visiting China, etc.), got back home, joined a war, was imprisoned, and dictated his stories to a cellmate (who produced a bestseller) | Marco Polo | 48%
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| F – a bird, or 12-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis | Fowl | 45%
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| X – Windows operating system released in 2001 | XP | 39%
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| C – a vehicle drawn by horses, or what Mr. Miyagi did to Karate Kid | Coach | 35%
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| I – the family in Little House on the Prairie | Ingalls | 29%
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| Z – a Soviet spy satellite, or a football (soccer) club from Saint Petersburg | Zenit | 29%
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