| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| E – the number of days it took Phileas Fogg to go around the world | Eighty | 95%
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| B – one of the world's most popular card games, or Golden Gate | Bridge | 94%
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| G – is “gull” in Norwegian, or Au in chemistry | Gold | 94%
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| W – a route; a large one is Milky | Way | 93%
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| D – city where you can visit Jumeirah Mosque and Burj Khalifa | Dubai | 92%
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| H – prefaced by # | Hashtag | 88%
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| J – home country of sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah | Jamaica | 88%
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| R – “In the black corner, … the Italian Stallion, _____ Balboa!” | Rocky | 87%
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| Y – TV sitcom Curb ____ Enthusiasm | Your | 86%
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| S – not winter, but a person who adds numbers together | Summer | 85%
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| C – a learning programme, or where golf is played | Course | 82%
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| K – company known for photographic film products; its full name is Eastman _____ Company | Kodak | 80%
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| O – Robyn’s hit "Dancing on My ___" | Own | 80%
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| A – emperor whose last public words were, “I found Rome of clay; I leave it to you of marble” | Augustus | 79%
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| V – first name of Fleming, director of Gone with the Wind; the name means winner or conqueror | Victor | 78%
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| F – a group of vessels, or what the moment does (when in hurry) | Fleet | 73%
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| X – mutant Professor Charles Francis ______, or missionary Francis | Xavier | 69%
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| N – author of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) | Isaac Newton | 60%
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| M – former Prime Minister of Finland whose name is very close to a country enclaved by Italy | Sanna Marin | 55%
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| P – world’s 43rd most spoken language, or what can be done to silver | Polish | 53%
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| U – city in the Netherlands known in Roman times as Traiectum or Ultra Traiectum | Utrecht | 53%
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| I – Australian rock band with hits “Need You Tonight” and “Suicide Blonde” | INXS | 47%
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| L – African capital whose name includes the opposite of short | Lilongwe | 30%
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| Q – perfectly typical or representative; the word refers to the fifth essence | Quintessential | 30%
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| Z – ____ am See, Austrian ski resort named after a monk's cell in a monastery | Zell | 15%
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| T – Spain’s highest peak, which is the mountain that casts the world’s largest shadow projected on the sea | Teide | 12%
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