| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| N – One Thousand and One ______, a collection of stories compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, also known as the Arabian ______ | Nights | 90%
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| C – NFL team Dallas ____, or something that is called “gauchos” in Argentina | Cowboys | 89%
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| F – Jorge Mario Bergoglio aka Pope _______ | Francis | 89%
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| V – Miami ____, crime TV series where the main characters were Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs | Vice | 89%
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| U – what Gene Kelly is spinning in his hand when he’s dancing and Singin' in the Rain | Umbrella | 88%
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| S – is “argentum” in Latin, or Long John in Treasure Island | Silver | 87%
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| A – not enemy, but lawyer McBeal | Ally | 86%
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| G – the wizard leading the Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf | 86%
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| O – makes you see the glass half full | Optimism | 84%
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| D – ___ Leppard, English rock band formed in 1977 | Def | 80%
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| K – acronym for “Committee for State Security”, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union | KGB | 80%
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| B – city where the term “downtown” was first used | Boston | 76%
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| T – three strikes in a row in bowling, or country that is either Europe’s 38th or 2nd largest by area | Turkey | 75%
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| H – Gangkhar Puensum, possibly the highest unclimbed mountain in the world, is the highest peak of the Bhutanese _________ | Himalayas | 72%
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| M – a keepsake, or Christopher Nolan’s film where man with short-term memory loss attempts to hunt down his wife's murderer – again | Memento | 70%
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| Q – somewhat, rather | Quite | 70%
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| R – a hose is wound around this, or ____ 2 Real who like to move it | Reel | 67%
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| L – country whose border is 909 km (565 mi) long and forms a complete loop | Lesotho | 52%
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| X – one of the two sex-determining allosomes; is found in both male and female genome | X chromosome | 46%
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| Z – discontinued line of digital media products and services by Microsoft; rhymes with the 2021 sci-fi film starring Timothée Chalamet | Zune | 46%
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| E – Swiss mathematician Leonhard, the greatest mathematician of the 18th century | Euler | 31%
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| W – theme (era) of video game Hearts of Iron | World War II | 27%
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| J – singer-songwriter with hit “You Were Meant for Me” (her name is “Edelstein” in German) | Jewel | 21%
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| I – third-largest moon of Saturn, or (in Greek mythology) the father of Atlas and Prometheus | Iapetus | 7%
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| P – Doña ___, the ship whose sinking was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history, or the Nobel Prize winning author Octavio | Paz | 6%
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| Y – _____ Peninsula, located north-west and west of Adelaide in South Australia | Yorke | 6%
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