| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| B – what employees are supposed to be doing in team-building activities, or James with a licence to kill | Bond | 96%
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| K – having a friendly, warm-hearted nature, or child in German | Kind | 92%
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| A – fictional island that sank | Atlantis | 91%
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| J – has a mass of 318 Earths | Jupiter | 90%
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| H – not coldness, but Miami’s basketball team | Heat | 88%
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| M – ______ 5, band with hits “Moves like Jagger” and “Animals” | Maroon | 88%
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| E – songwriting competition in Europe held annually (apart from 2020) since 1956 | Eurovision | 86%
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| T – swimming, cycling, and running all in the same race | Triathlon | 85%
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| L – the first Soviet republic to declare that it was an independent nation in 1990 | Lithuania | 82%
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| W – Murder, She _____, TV series starring Angela Lansbury as a mystery novelist | Wrote | 81%
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| U – animated feature by Disney/Pixar where a widower flies with his house; the French title is Là-haut | Up | 78%
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| O – nerve that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain | Optic nerve | 74%
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| R – strategy board game of world conquest with 42 territories | Risk | 73%
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| S – an amphetamine, or 1994 movie with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock | Speed | 69%
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| C – modern form of customer service that is often handled by bots (change the last letter and you got an African country) | Chat | 66%
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| P – American corporation that owned submarines, a cruiser and a destroyer, only because Soviet Union paid for soft drinks with military equipment | PepsiCo | 64%
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| G – “I’d catch a _______ for ya; Throw my hand on a blade for ya; I'd jump in front of a train for ya; You know I'd do anything for ya” | Grenade | 62%
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| I – Edith Wharton’s The Age of _________, winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Innocence | 49%
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| D – Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the ___ in the Night-Time, or Suede album ___ Man Star | Dog | 42%
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| F – eating “utensils” used to eat pasta before tomato sauce was introduced in the 1790s | Fingers | 42%
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| N – national capital that is 800 km (500 mi) north of Kingston | Nassau | 42%
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| X – Louis ___ who, in 1830, was the King of France for about 20 minutes, until he stood up to his wife and abdicated | XIX | 40%
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| V – capital of Seychelles | Victoria | 37%
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| Q – mycoprotein-based meat substitute, or a fox hunt, both named after an English village | Quorn | 32%
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| Y – the largest city of Myanmar | Yangon | 29%
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| Z – porous mineral used in water softeners | Zeolite | 4%
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