| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| I – place to buy Swedish furniture; the name is an acronym for the founder’s initials, his family's farm and the village where he grew up in | IKEA | 96%
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| D – not duchess, but jazz orchestra leader Ellington | Duke | 94%
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| E – currency of Lithuania and Luxembourg | Euro | 93%
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| K – Muppet character ______ the Frog | Kermit | 93%
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| T – 1982 album by Michael Jackson, the best-selling album of all time | Thriller | 93%
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| F – is “poisson” in French, or Pisces in astrology | Fish | 91%
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| R – to move gently back and forth, or something an aspiring geologist might collect | Rock | 91%
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| C – to recite numbers in sequence, or The ____ of Monte Cristo | Count | 89%
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| V – a palace near Paris, used by Napoleon as a summer residence | Versailles | 88%
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| U – command included in most software programs to reverse an action | Undo | 86%
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| S – in various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring, or what was being done to Private Ryan | Save | 84%
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| G – a lizard, or the anti-hero in Wall Street | Gekko | 80%
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| M – she stepped on her executioner’s foot on her way to the guillotine and apologised | Marie Antoinette | 80%
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| Y – the quantity of something produced, or to surrender | Yield | 77%
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| J – a task, or biblical figure beset with horrendous disasters | Job | 75%
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| H – don’t put the cart before this | Horse | 73%
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| X – warrior princess in TV and video games; played by Lucy Lawless in 1995–2001 | Xena | 72%
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| B – Harald who united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom, or technology that unites devices | Bluetooth | 63%
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| Z – the westernmost province of the Netherlands; consists of islands and peninsulas | Zeeland | 56%
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| O – the tallest mountain in the Solar System | Olympus Mons (Mars) | 54%
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| W – a disputed territory of which about 20% is controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Western Sahara | 34%
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| A – largest capital city in the world by surface area | Ankara | 33%
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| P – fairly, quite, or what hurts Beyoncé | Pretty | 33%
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| N – host of the 1998 Winter Olympics | Nagano | 28%
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| Q – _________ Roo, a Mexican state on the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula | Quintana | 17%
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| L – Stanisław who wrote Solaris | Lem | 9%
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