| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| C – country with the highest number of lakes | Canada | 92%
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| I – general rise in the price level over a period of time | Inflation | 89%
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| L – something you can actually climb or metaphorically climb in a corporation | Ladder | 89%
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| Z – chemical element with symbol Zn | Zinc | 88%
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| W – ABBA’s hit, or a place that saw some action on 18 June 1815 | Waterloo | 84%
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| P – chess piece called “tốt” (soldier) in Vietnamese | Pawn | 83%
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| N – the largest country in the Central American isthmus | Nicaragua | 78%
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| B – an unexpected event with a damaging effect, or what you can do to your nose | Blow | 76%
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| O – The ___ ___ and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | Old Man | 74%
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| H – sitcom The Steve ______ Show, or first name of actor Keitel (The Piano) | Harvey | 73%
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| M – Ridge Forrester actor Ron, or what a rolling stone doesn’t gather | Moss | 72%
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| A – country led by Enver Hoxha from 1941 to 1985 | Albania | 70%
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| K – director of A Clockwork Orange, who died in 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 68%
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| U – acronym for the administrative body for soccer in Europe; “Union des associations européennes de football” in French | UEFA | 65%
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| E – NHL team Oilers are based in this city | Edmonton | 63%
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| F – official name of Somalia is the _______ Republic of Somalia | Federal | 62%
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| S – country where the second-largest city is Busan | South Korea | 61%
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| T – precedes light, follows pony | Tail | 61%
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| X – The first ever _____ picture was taken of Anna Bertha Röntgen’s hand | X-ray | 61%
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| D – His ____ Materials, a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman | Dark | 59%
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| Y – word expressing joy (or sceptically: ____, right) | Yeah | 59%
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| V – R&B singer Luther (“Never Too Much”, “Endless Love”) | Vandross | 55%
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| R – adventure novelist Harold, or actor Tim (The Shawshank Redemption) | Robbins | 54%
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| J – the girl who's got a gun in Aerosmith’s 1989 hit | Janie | 38%
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| Q – disk _____, a limit that restricts disk file system usage in computing | Quota | 32%
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| G – Gladstone who gets lucky breaks all the time | Gander | 4%
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