| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| A – poor woodcutter Baba who discovers a cave full of thieves’ treasures, or Muhammad who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee | Ali | 97%
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| Q – to repeat someone’s exact words, to cite | Quote | 91%
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| N – to breast feed, or a person trained to provide care for the sick | Nurse | 90%
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| C – actor Gooding Jr., or the largest island in the Caribbean Sea | Cuba | 89%
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| R – American seismologist who created the earthquake magnitude scale | Charles Richter | 87%
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| T – to set fire, or a dating app | Tinder | 87%
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| K – base unit of temperature, including the coldest possible zero degrees | Kelvin | 83%
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| L – Jack who wrote White Fang, or the city where there are always at least six ravens in the Tower of ______ | London | 80%
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| O – TV series starring Ricky Gervais or Steve Carell | The Office | 80%
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| W – the building complex you think of when you see the numbers 9/11 | World Trade Center | 79%
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| D – title of the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism | Dalai Lama | 76%
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| Z – type of airship patented in Germany in 1895 (Hindenburg was an unlucky one) | Zeppelin | 76%
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| G – big or tall in French | Grand | 75%
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| I – dial +962 for Jordan, +963 for Syria, +964 for ________ | Iraq | 71%
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| M – Welsh captain Sir Henry who fought against the Spanish and gave name and face to a popular rum brand (Captain ______) | Morgan | 69%
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| U – villainous sea witch in Disney’s The Little Mermaid | Ursula | 69%
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| P – is “ein Gebet” in German, or what Tommy and Gina are livin’ on | a Prayer | 65%
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| E – not centre, but the lead guitarist of U2 | Edge | 58%
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| H – name of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s artificial intelligence computer, which is literally one step ahead of IBM | HAL | 56%
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| J – a motion-based dance video game published by Ubisoft | Just Dance | 53%
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| F – the world’s smallest known vertebrate animal is an 8-millimetre long ____ | Frog | 45%
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| Y – nickname of baseball legend Lawrence Peter Berra | Yogi | 44%
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| V – the smallest national capital (by area and population) in the EU | Valletta | 38%
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| S – the only writer in the world to be awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Academy Award for screenplay (Pygmalion) | George Bernard Shaw | 27%
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| X – song by Beyoncé from her self-titled fifth studio album, or very old brandy | XO | 19%
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| B – largest city in the world located below sea level and the lowest-lying national capital | Baku | 16%
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