| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| B – Jamaican former sprinter, first name Usain | Bolt | 98%
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| L – fashion house ____ Vuitton, or someone numbered XVI who had a crappy time around 1790 | Louis | 95%
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| V – tennis player Williams, or the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite | Venus | 94%
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| F – without these we wouldn’t have a clue that something like dinosaurs ever existed | Fossils | 93%
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| D – country where Castello cheese and ECCO shoes come from | Denmark | 92%
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| G – painting by Johannes Vermeer, “___ With a Pearl Earring” | Girl | 91%
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| H – a Pharrell Williams hit, or something that is “lieto” or “feliz” in Italian | Happy | 90%
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| N – a three-part waterfall, “Honeymoon Capital of the World” | Niagara Falls | 90%
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| O – you cannot make this without breaking eggs | Omelette | 90%
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| Y – a pronoun, or someone for whom Bryan Adams does everything he does | You | 88%
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| E – middle name of the voice of Darth Vader, or a rank of nobility in Britain | Earl | 84%
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| T – a Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer who worked for Edison and powered the Niagara Falls | Nikola Tesla | 83%
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| U – Tashkent is the capital of this country | Uzbekistan | 83%
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| X – chemical element Xe: a noble gas that has been used in flash lamps and as a general anaesthetic | Xenon | 82%
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| S – Twilight main character Bella, or a bird familiar to Tchaikovsky fans | Swan | 80%
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| M – M in BMW | Motoren | 79%
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| Z – fictional swordsman whose true identity is Don Diego de la Vega | Zorro | 79%
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| A – Macedonian king who conquered the Persian Empire and was accidentally buried alive | Alexander the Great | 77%
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| I – had 15 million users in 1995 and 5 billion users in 2020 | Internet | 76%
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| Q – cheese in Spanish | Queso | 76%
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| K – more familiar name for Godwin-Austen, Lambha Pahar or Chogori (the 2nd highest mountain on Earth) | K2 | 73%
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| P – a Japanese media franchise featuring Ash Ketchum | Pokémon | 68%
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| W – physical motion in atmosphere, or something that is East, South, West or North in Mahjong | Wind | 65%
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| R – European capital that means “smoky bay” in the country’s own language | Reykjavik | 58%
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| J – was Pope only for 33 days (in 1978) | John Paul I | 56%
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| C – to put an end to, or bunny-boiling Glenn | Close | 50%
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