| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| I – Mission: __________, a Tom Cruise film series | Impossible | 98%
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| F – created the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford | Henry Ford | 97%
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| P – a tree, or a part of the hand | Palm | 94%
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| H – UNESCO's World ________ Sites, e.g. Stonehenge | Heritage | 92%
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| G – South Korean TV series Squid ____ where 456 players aim for a prize | Game | 91%
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| T – jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong’s main instrument | Trumpet | 89%
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| A – to broadcast, or something that contains 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen | Air | 88%
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| J – “… Oh, what fun it is to ride; In a one horse open sleigh; Hey, ______ _____, …” | Jingle bells | 88%
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| C – not Dale, but a token used in gambling | Chip | 87%
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| N – fabric made from a synthetic polymer of the same name, which was selected because the original name, “No-Run”, promised too much | Nylon | 87%
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| B – score minus seven equals _____’s dozen | Baker | 86%
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| M – one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick, or Perry who solved dozens of crimes in a courtroom | Mason | 85%
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| O – capital and 4th-largest city of the country whose 3rd-largest city is Calgary | Ottawa | 84%
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| D – the westernmost city on the African mainland, or an off-road endurance event formerly known as the Paris–_____ Rally | Dakar | 69%
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| U – province that constitutes Northern Ireland and the northernmost parts of the Republic of Ireland | Ulster | 65%
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| Q – a set of instructions passed to a database, or to inquire | Query | 63%
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| K – is “gangurru” in Guugu Yimidhirr (an Aboriginal language) | Kangaroo | 61%
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| E – fundamental, or TV series with Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu that is called Sherlock New Yorgis in Estonia | Elementary | 59%
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| Z – Hungarian-American actress ___ ___ Gabor | Zsa Zsa | 59%
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| V – nothing ________, nothing gained | Ventured | 56%
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| W – “____ of Life”, 1985 hit by Dire Straits | Walk | 54%
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| L – a province and its capital city in Spain, or a big cat in Spanish | León | 43%
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| R – first name of Heinlein who wrote The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, one of Elon Musk’s favourite books | Robert | 32%
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| S – Brazilian sports club where Pelé played, or the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel | Santos | 31%
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| Y – city and county in Arizona, known for several military bases | Yuma | 30%
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| X – Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 BCE and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia | Xenophon | 10%
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