| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A – Swedish pop group whose music was adapted into the musical “Mamma Mia!” | ABBA | 98%
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| M – first name of swimmer Phelps, or an archangel | Michael | 96%
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| E – German-Swiss-American physicist who transferred his Nobel Prize fund to his ex-wife and whose name became synonymous with "genius" | Albert Einstein | 93%
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| R – Justin Timberlake hit “Cry Me a ___”, or Amur (but not the leopard) | River | 93%
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| D – method of scoring in basketball by putting the ball directly in the basket | Dunk | 90%
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| I – if you travelled from Dhaka to Karachi, you’d pass through this country | India | 90%
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| P – occupation of Nintendo’s brothers Mario and Luigi | Plumber | 90%
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| G – Dutchman who painted “The Night Café” and “The Starry Night” | Vincent van Gogh | 89%
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| H – animal whose head might turn up in your bed if you’d refused the Godfather’s previous offers | Horse | 88%
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| B – a superhero, or a city and a river in Turkey | Batman | 85%
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| O – a state of connectivity; a word that nowadays often precedes banking, dating or shopping | Online | 84%
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| K – father of Michael Douglas, or a Scottish word meaning "church" (or just think Star Trek) | Kirk | 81%
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| C – country known as Zhōngguó (meaning Middle or Central State) to its own people | China | 79%
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| F – John Green’s novel “The ___ in Our Stars” about a 16-year-old with cancer, or a fracture that involves displacement | Fault | 78%
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| J – to make a sudden uncontrolled movement, or a person with obnoxious qualities and behaviour | Jerk | 78%
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| N – no ___ is good ___, or American rock band Huey Lewis and the ___ | News | 74%
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| L – large area in Finland where the number of people and reindeer is about the same and where Santa really lives | Lapland | 73%
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| Q – a don who rode Rosinante, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza | Quixote | 73%
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| Y – drama television series “The ___ Pope” with Jude Law | Young | 71%
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| X – American corporation selling print and digital document products in more than 150 countries | Xerox | 67%
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| U – nasty Hogwarts teacher Dolores, whose name includes the world's most popular card game among seniors | Umbridge | 65%
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| S – vast, cold, dry grass-plain, pronounced in the same way as something that many modern people try to hit 10,000 a day | Steppe | 64%
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| W – a U.K. football club from Sheffield, or something named after the Norse god Odin or the Roman god Mercury | Wednesday | 54%
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| T – number of Earths that would fit between Earth and Moon | Thirty | 51%
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| Z – a nesosilicate mineral and gemstone; one of the heaviest gems | Zircon | 48%
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| V – small city founded by the Gauls, site of the longest-lasting battle of WWI | Verdun | 37%
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