| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| D – the best-selling Canadian singer ("My Heart Will Go On") | Celine Dion | 91%
|
| S – 3-time Oscar winner Meryl | Streep | 88%
|
| W – to serve customers in a restaurant, or what is being done for Godot in a Samuel Beckett play | Wait | 85%
|
| Q – a section or area (e.g. of a town), or 25% | Quarter | 84%
|
| R – device that converts certain electromagnetic waves to sound, or Queen hit “_____ Ga Ga” | Radio | 82%
|
| A – a jump in figure skating, or Beverly Hills Cop Foley | Axel | 75%
|
| U – the address of a webpage or other Internet resource | URL | 73%
|
| J – J country closest to Europe | Jordan | 68%
|
| B – country with the world’s 8th largest population but smaller in area than any other in top 25 | Bangladesh | 66%
|
| N – surrounded by Triton, Proteus, and at least 12 others | Neptune | 65%
|
| C – to cut, or a short segment of electronic media | Clip | 63%
|
| E – comes every day, as “Abend” in Germany | Evening | 60%
|
| I – in poker, to just call a small bet before the flop is to limp __ | In | 59%
|
| F – English self-taught scientist Michael who invented the _______ cage, an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields | Faraday | 54%
|
| H – the 17th- to 19th-century name for the continent of Australia was New ______ | Holland | 54%
|
| T – American sitcom whose last episode, aired in 2015, had Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christian Slater as guest stars (but no Charlie Sheen) | Two and a Half Men | 46%
|
| Z – Émile who wrote Nana and J'Accuse…! | Zola | 42%
|
| K – Brazilian former soccer player, was voted the 2007 IFFHS World's Best Playmaker when at AC Milan | Kaká | 37%
|
| Y – “first” name of Tu, the 2015 winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine (the name has a personal pronoun repeated) | Youyou | 37%
|
| P – what you shouldn’t cast before swine | Pearls | 34%
|
| M – a computer-animated media franchise owned by DreamWorks Animation, or a country | Madagascar | 33%
|
| V – ____ del Mar, Chile’s fourth largest city; the name means “Vineyard of the Sea” | Viña | 24%
|
| L – film director Sidney (12 Angry Men, Serpico); the name is plural of snow in Finnish | Lumet | 21%
|
| G – first name of Simenon, author of the detective Maigret books | Georges | 18%
|
| O – a major Czech city located at the confluences of rivers Oder, Opava, Ostravice and Lučina | Ostrava | 15%
|
| X – __________ of Colophon, one of the most important Pre-Socratic philosophers (Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος) | Xenophanes | 5%
|