| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| H – the body part by which Thetis was holding Achilles when dipping him in the River Styx | Heel | 93%
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| C – is “urbo” in Esperanto, or Gotham in Batman | City | 91%
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| B – not to meow, but an outer layer of a woody plant | Bark | 86%
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| Z – medieval principality located in the modern Montenegro and Albania, or actor Catherine ____-Jones | Zeta | 84%
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| L – first name of Pasteur who invented pasteurization | Louis | 83%
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| J – the Rolling Stones lead vocalist, whose career has spanned over six decades | Mick Jagger | 81%
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| W – city served by Chopin Airport | Warsaw | 80%
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| A – country where Colleen McCullough’s novel The Thorn Birds is set | Australia | 78%
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| R – boxer “Sugar” ___ Leonard | Ray | 77%
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| O – a battery-operated game with two sets of cards, "Doctor" and "Specialist" | Operation | 68%
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| S – precedes jacket, or follows Bering | Strait | 68%
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| E – country whose highest point is the farthest from the Earth’s centre | Ecuador | 66%
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| U – in the American Civil War, term referring to "the northern states loyal to the U.S. government" | Union | 65%
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| F – what you can do to someone on Twitter, or what Kacey Musgraves does to the arrow | Follow | 64%
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| M – M in CMYK colour model | Magenta | 62%
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| I – unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model | Id | 59%
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| T – characters played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon that embark on a fatal road trip | Thelma and Louise | 58%
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| Y – __-__ Ma, American cellist born in France to Chinese parents | Yo-Yo | 57%
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| D – “Here be ______”, or Daenerys Targaryen, Mother or ______ | Dragons | 55%
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| X – brand name of short-acting tranquilizer Alprazolam | Xanax | 53%
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| P – hello in Russian (приве́т), or the Drive where Dudley Dursley lives | Privet | 49%
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| V – Microsoft Word menu that is “Ansicht” in German and “Ver” in Spanish | View | 44%
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| G – Boston Bruins venue TD ______, or ______ of Luxembourg in Paris | Garden | 38%
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| K – the ______ belt, a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System | Kuiper | 34%
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| N – ____ Sad, the second largest city in Serbia | Novi | 30%
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| Q – the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize winner National Dialogue _______ | Quartet | 4%
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