| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| B – Californian music group ___ Eyed Peas, or the last name of Harry Potter’s godfather Sirius | Black | 98%
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| O – Law & _____, American TV series that ran for 20 seasons | Order | 96%
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| G – email service with about 2 billion users | Gmail | 95%
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| Q – a fraudulent healer, or to make a noise like a duck | Quack | 94%
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| P – Lady Gaga hit “___ Face”, or something that has a popular variant Texas Hold’em | Poker | 92%
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| J – what you should do to them if you can’t beat them | Join | 87%
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| R – sport that was developed around 1845 and named after a school and a small town in Warwickshire, England | Rugby | 86%
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| L – the first UN Secretary-General Trygve, or what Shakira’s hips don’t do | Lie | 83%
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| D – the greatest novelist of the Victorian era (e.g. Great Expectations) | Charles Dickens | 82%
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| N – in a compass, or, when preceded by Space, in Seattle | Needle | 82%
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| Z – the most populous island in Denmark, or, if preceded by New, a country with a high sheep-to-human ratio | Zealand | 82%
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| C – James Bond actor who was born between the 5th and 6th Bond movie | Daniel Craig | 79%
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| U – country represented by Akbar Djuraev, a weightlifting gold medallist from Tokyo Olympics in 2021 | Uzbekistan | 75%
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| A – the president of France is also the co-prince of this country | Andorra | 70%
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| X – Louis ___ who was called the God-Given and the Sun King | XIV | 70%
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| V – American actor Jon (Midnight Cowboy), Angelina Jolie’s father | Voight | 65%
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| S – about 300,000,000 m/s | Speed of light | 59%
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| H – pearls in Finnish, or a hard hat in English | Helmet | 57%
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| I – Chichén ____, a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula | Itzá | 56%
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| K – movie starring Colin Firth with Spanish title El discurso del rey | The King's Speech | 54%
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| F – title character in Mozart’s opera where two servants get married despite their employer’s attempts to seduce one of them | Figaro | 48%
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| E – first name of Fermi whose work in nuclear physics was crucial to the development of the world’s first nuclear reactor; the name is derived from Heinrich | Enrico | 44%
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| W – an adjective related to a good alibi and hopefully any boat you’re boarding | Watertight | 42%
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| T – African lake that is the world’s second-largest lake by volume and the second deepest | Lake Tanganyika | 33%
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| M – mountain that is 10,205 m (33,480 feet) high when measured from its base to its peak | Mauna Kea | 24%
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| Y – Captain John in Catch-22 | Yossarian | 14%
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