| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| M – Real ______, football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium | Madrid | 90%
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| V – person who abstains from the use of animal products, particularly in diet | Vegan | 90%
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| L – what Forrest compared to a box of chocolates | Life | 87%
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| C – rover that landed on Mars in 2012, or what killed the cat | Curiosity | 85%
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| S – a sense, or what teen spirit does, according to Nirvana | Smell | 83%
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| R – Louis Comte was the first conjurer on record to pull this out of a top hat | Rabbit | 82%
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| N – her in Bulgarian, no in German | Nein | 81%
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| D – Daniel who has won three Oscars for Best Actor (e.g. There Will Be Blood) | Day-Lewis | 77%
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| P – “The _____ of Love”, hit of the same name written by many artists and covered by Celine Dion | Power | 72%
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| B – city where, on 9 November 1989, a slightly misinformed announcement was made and people started climbing | Berlin | 70%
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| G – 1 followed by 100 zeros | Googol | 69%
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| H – island that Columbus named La Isla Española in 1492 | Hispaniola | 69%
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| Z – Ben Stiller’s 2001 comedy film about dimwitted supermodel Derek _________ | Zoolander | 66%
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| U – country with about 1.1 million citizens and 9 million expatriates | United Arab Emirates | 55%
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| A – book format whose sales increase fast and have (in the U.S.) eclipsed ebook sales | Audiobook | 53%
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| K – novelist whose protagonists often face bizarre predicaments (The Metamorphosis) and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers (The Trial) | Franz Kafka | 51%
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| J – capital and largest city of South Sudan | Juba | 50%
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| O – Asterix's best friend, or an Atari video game about them | Obelix | 46%
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| T – the name of this weapon is loosely based on the title of the novel Tom Swift And His Electric Rifle | Taser | 31%
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| W – The Worst _____, fantasy drama children's TV series based on novel series by Jill Murphy | Witch | 31%
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| Q – Pennsylvania’s nickname (in addition to Keystone State) | Quaker State | 29%
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| I – to apply measuring devices, or a tuba | Instrument | 25%
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| E – first name of Fear of Flying author Jong | Erica | 23%
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| F – not flabby, but a business enterprise | Firm | 20%
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| X – is “sherry” in English, “jerez” in Spanish, “_____” in French | Xérès | 13%
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| Y – the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean | Yenisey | 12%
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