| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| P – not absent, not the past | Present | 94%
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| O – first name of talk show host Winfrey | Oprah | 93%
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| T – a square in Manhattan, or what, according to Bob Dylan, are a-changin’ | Times | 92%
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| N – country named after the third-longest river in Africa | Niger | 90%
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| I – significance, or to bring something in from a foreign country | Import | 89%
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| D – to determine a disease; its anagram is San Diego | Diagnose | 88%
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| S – singing voice with the highest vocal range, or a TV mobster | Soprano | 86%
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| L – the Eiffel Tower’s French nickname "La dame de fer" means "Iron ____" | Lady | 83%
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| M – is “dinero” in Spanish, or the thing Jerry Maguire was supposed to show | Money | 83%
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| J – tennis legend Billie ____ King | Jean | 82%
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| E – first name of Thompson whose roles include Elinor Dashwood, Nanny McPhee, and Professor Sybil Trelawney, or a Jane Austen book | Emma | 78%
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| U – country where Salto is the 2nd largest city | Uruguay | 76%
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| W – first name of Buffett, American investor and world's eighth-wealthiest person | Warren | 76%
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| Y – peninsula in south-eastern Mexico, including portions of Belize and Guatemala | Yucatán | 74%
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| F – what you can’t see for the trees | Forest | 69%
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| G – unit prefix denoting a factor of 1,000,000,000 | Giga | 68%
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| Z – the last human city on Earth in The Matrix, or synonym for Jerusalem (Mount ____) | Zion | 66%
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| H – a moon of Saturn, named after the mythical girl whom Paris seduced and carried off to Troy with dire consequences | Helene | 65%
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| B – one of Weezer’s first hits (named after an American singer who fatally chose an airplane over a tour bus in 1959) | Buddy Holly | 54%
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| A – capital of Turkmenistan, largely rebuilt since the 1948 earthquake | Ashgabat | 41%
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| C – island where British Overseas Territory Akrotiri and Dhekelia is located (never mind which continent) | Cyprus | 37%
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| K – another name for jack who is 11 and black or red | Knave | 37%
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| V – author of Latin epic poem The Aeneid | Virgil | 35%
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| Q – acronym for a framework for building real-time embedded applications or for a McDonald’s hamburger | QP | 23%
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| R – Donald Duck writer and illustrator Don | Rosa | 5%
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| X – a liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent; many markers are nowadays 100% ______ free | Xylene | 5%
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