| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| K – _____ Lumpur | Kuala | 88%
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| T – the name of this country is a combination of the two states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, that joined together | Tanzania | 88%
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| I – one word to describe a social media user who can reach a relevant audience and create awareness; usually a celebrity | Influencer | 86%
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| X – Extremely Extra Extra Large | XXXL | 86%
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| J – jelly, or a difficult situation, like with Michael Jordan and space creatures | Jam | 84%
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| M – a device that converts sound waves into an electric current, or first name of pugilist Tyson | Mike | 82%
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| D – video on-demand streaming service with dedicated content hubs for brands such as Pixar and Lucasfilm | Disney+ | 80%
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| W – TV game show that is called Qui veut gagner des millions? in France | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 80%
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| V – the third largest city in Spain, or a type of orange | Valencia | 79%
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| Q – punctuation mark missing from this sentence: I'll be back, he said. | Quotation marks | 78%
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| U – do ____ others as you would have them do ____ you | Unto | 77%
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| S – Mary who wrote Frankenstein in 1816 when the world was locked in a long, cold volcanic winter caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora | Shelley | 75%
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| Z – a line that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions | Zigzag | 74%
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| P – chemical element number 94, stolen by Doc Brown from Libyan terrorists | Plutonium | 71%
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| G – ___ Rummy, where the players do not lay down their sets and runs until at the end | Gin | 70%
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| E – popular singer born in 2001 (“Bad Guy”, “No Time to Die”) | Billie Eilish | 65%
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| A – country that had the world’s first female president (not following an election, though) | Argentina | 63%
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| R – the largest city of the Arabian Peninsula | Riyadh | 63%
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| H – Duran Duran’s 1982 hit “______ Like the Wolf” | Hungry | 61%
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| O – hip hop duo with hits “Player's Ball”, “Ms Jackson” and “Hey Ya!” | Outkast | 59%
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| B – not long-lasting, but letter in German | Brief | 58%
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| N – is “nooit” in Dutch, or “jamás” in Spanish | Never | 41%
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| C – present-day country that was uninhabited until the 15th century, when the Portuguese colonized the islands, thus establishing the first European settlement in the tropics | Cabo Verde | 38%
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| L – the genre of John Grisham and Scott Turow is _____ thriller | Legal | 34%
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| F – Things ____ _____, Chinua Achebe’s novel of great power that turns the world upside down | Fall Apart | 24%
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| Y – genus of perennial shrubs and trees with tough, sword-shaped leaves and typically white flowers (or “_____ palm”) | Yucca | 23%
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