| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| B – The ___ ____ Theory, American sitcom about physicists at Caltech and their pals | Big Bang | 95%
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| A – mother in Turkish, or Boleyn executed by her husband King Henry VIII | Anne | 93%
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| P – 15th-century Inca ruins Machu ____ | Picchu | 93%
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| D – a transaction, or to distribute cards to the players in a game | Deal | 91%
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| E – the main reason the number of letters sent by post has halved between 2001 and 2021 | 90%
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| J – “Piano Man” Billy ____, who didn't start the fire | Joel | 90%
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| W – a verb of the past, but can precede "wolf" (on a full moon) | Were | 82%
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| H – Bosnia and ___________ | Herzegovina | 81%
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| U – Django _________, movie where a freed slave tries to rescue his wife | Unchained | 81%
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| X – denoting a film meant for adults only | X-rated | 81%
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| I – more familiar name for the International Crime Police Organization | Interpol | 75%
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| M – naturally occurring dark pigment, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, and fur | Melanin | 71%
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| F – when Antonio couldn’t repay his loan, Shylock demanded a pound of _____ | Flesh | 69%
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| S – to flavour food with spices, or something that is verão, outono, inverno or primavera in Portuguese | Season | 68%
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| T – not square, not tambourine | Triangle | 65%
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| L – Dav Pilkey’s graphic novel Dog Man: ____ of the Fleas (2018) | Lord | 64%
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| K – country where Kisumu is the third largest city | Kenya | 62%
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| R – Olivia whose 2021 hits include “Drivers License”, “"Deja Vu” and “Good 4 U” | Rodrigo | 61%
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| C – Pixar film from 2017 where 12-year-old Miguel is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead | Coco | 58%
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| O – Subaru’s station wagon model, or a huge place down under | Outback | 55%
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| G – Steven who was central midfielder and captain for Liverpool F.C. and the England national team | Gerrard | 52%
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| V – the largest city in Laos | Vientiane | 41%
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| Z – Alicia Keys’ song that would be “Cebras y aeroplanos” in Spanish | Zebras and Airplanes | 39%
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| N – the only national capital in the world that starts with Ne | New Delhi | 23%
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| Y – a subordinate or assistant; an official serving in a royal or high noble household | Yeoman | 23%
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| Q – Didier who won a Nobel Prize (with 2 others) for discovering the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star | Queloz | 3%
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