| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| O – the only U.S. president who was born in Honolulu | Barack Obama | 96%
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| F – deflated tire, or an apartment in the U.K. | Flat | 96%
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| G – ______ Shepherd, which is a relatively modern breed of dog despite its wolf-like appearance | German | 94%
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| A – ocean where Savage Islands and Tristan da Cunha are located | The Atlantic | 94%
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| D – a senior official in charge of a university faculty, or James who died in a car crash in 1955 | Dean | 93%
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| U – Thomas More book, or the opposite of dystopia | Utopia | 93%
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| V – where you can find the world’s smallest standing army, the Swiss Guard | Vatican City | 87%
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| I – setting something apart from others (like an infected person); derived from a word meaning “island” | Isolation | 86%
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| J – a Van Halen hit, or what white men can’t do | Jump | 84%
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| L – a discharge of electricity, or _________ McQueen in Disney-Pixar film Cars | Lightning | 81%
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| H – Moriarty’s enemy with outstanding reasoning skills, who occasionally uses addictive drugs in the absence of stimulating cases | Sherlock Holmes | 78%
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| K – first name of NBA star Durant, or the bird in Up who was actually female | Kevin | 75%
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| S – to exchange, or a video game console by Nintendo released in 2017 | Switch | 72%
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| C – the first ethnically Greek pharaoh who bothered to learn the Egyptian language, along with about dozen other languages | Cleopatra | 70%
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| E – country whose capital is Asmara | Eritrea | 70%
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| Q – QR code means _____ Response code | Quick | 69%
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| W – the world’s largest company by revenue since 2014 | Walmart | 68%
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| T – is “vertel” in Afrikaans, or William in Swiss folklore | Tell | 65%
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| Z – singer and guitarist Frank who received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1997 | Zappa | 62%
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| M – the sacrament of the Eucharist, or one of the fundamental properties of matter | Mass | 61%
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| B – popular reality TV format, or the leader of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four | Big Brother | 60%
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| N – German philosopher Friedrich who declared God dead in 1882 | Nietzsche | 60%
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| Y – supermini/subcompact car sold by Toyota since 1999 | Yaris | 59%
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| R – city with name meaning "river of January" (although the river turned out to be a bay) | Rio de Janeiro | 57%
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| P – country that has 852 living languages, more than any other country | Papua New Guinea | 54%
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| X – a class of starfighter used by the Rebel Alliance in their conflict with the Galactic Empire in Star Wars | X-wing fighter | 44%
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