| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| G – big in Spanish, or Ariana on the Billboard charts | Grande | 95%
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| B – Pirates of the Caribbean actor Orlando, or one or more flowers on a flowering plant | Bloom | 94%
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| K – Mario ____, a series of racing games by Nintendo where players compete in go-____ races | Kart | 91%
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| J – Japanese martial art and Putin’s sport of choice | Judo | 90%
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| A – one-word U.S. state name that includes another U.S. state name | Arkansas | 88%
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| F – Rosalind whose X-ray diffraction images led to the discovery of the DNA double helix, or Benjamin on $100 bills | Franklin | 88%
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| E – the last Tudor monarch, whose mother was executed by her father when she was 2 | Elizabeth I | 84%
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| N – tennis player Rafael who was the first to win 21 Grand Slam titles in men's singles | Nadal | 84%
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| C – you can't have this and eat it too | Cake | 80%
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| R – first name used by director Reiner (The Princess Bride), or to steal with force | Rob | 76%
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| O – Saudi Arabian ___, also known as Saudi Aramco, one of the largest companies in the world | Oil | 75%
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| T – is “domesticado” in Portuguese, or what was being done to the Shrew in Shakespeare’s play | Tame | 74%
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| W – Christmas song which – sung by Bing Crosby – is the world's best-selling single | White Christmas | 74%
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| H – Poirot’s sidekick Arthur, or the battle of 14 October 1066 | Hastings | 71%
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| I – one of the world's most recognizable computer brands due to its long-running _____ Inside campaign | Intel | 63%
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| Z – the fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal | Zeal | 63%
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| S – the shortest way from the “Pearl of the Danube” to the “Eternal City” goes through this country | Slovenia | 59%
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| X – Ramesses __, who was the tenth and final pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt | XI | 55%
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| L – light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation | Laser | 51%
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| U – _____ Heep, rock band formed in London in 1969 (named after a character in David Copperfield) | Uriah | 48%
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| P – subregion of Oceania that includes New Zealand, Pitcairn, Hawaii, etc. | Polynesia | 47%
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| Y – capital of Armenia | Yerevan | 47%
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| V – political satire comedy TV series where Selina Meyer is the U.S. Vice President | Veep | 43%
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| Q – a distant star-sized energy source in space, also known as a QSO, Quasi-Stellar Object | Quasar | 40%
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| M – city with the world’s largest underground complex covering more than 41 city blocks | Montreal | 21%
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| D – fictional city, located in the U.S. state of Calisota, which was created by Carl Barks in 1944 | Duckburg | 4%
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