| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| J – a saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade, or a ______ puzzle | Jigsaw | 89%
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| O – O in LOL | Out | 88%
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| S – salt in Italian, or reduced prices in shops | Sale | 86%
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| B – first name used by actor and Academy Awards host Hope, or who’s your uncle | Bob | 85%
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| C – singer (“Layla”) and influential guitarist Eric | Clapton | 85%
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| D – Nintendo's charming ape ______ Kong who actually started out as Mario’s enemy back in the arcades | Donkey | 83%
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| A – the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way | Andromeda Galaxy | 80%
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| Y – West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews | Yiddish | 80%
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| P – not kilogramme, not dollar | Pound | 75%
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| M – U.S. state where the official state cat is _____ Coon, “the gentle giant” | Maine | 71%
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| L – Charles who flew a plane for 33 hours and 30 minutes in 1927 | Lindbergh | 62%
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| N – where plants or children grow | Nursery | 61%
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| V – Eric Carle’s children’s picture book The ____ ______ Caterpillar | Very Hungry | 61%
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| I – animal belonging to the taxonomical phylum Arthropoda; they account for over half of all known living organisms | Insect | 60%
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| W – Monsoon _______, 2001 film about preparations for an arranged marriage in India | Wedding | 55%
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| H – first name of James who wrote The Portrait of a Lady | Henry | 53%
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| T – “Come on let's _____ again like we did last summer; Yeah, let's _____ again like we did last year” | Twist | 51%
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| E – country that merged with Syria in 1958 to form the United Arab Republic | Egypt | 50%
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| K – stand-up combat sports practiced for self-defence, general fitness, or as a contact sport; “piedbato-bokso” in Esperanto | Kickboxing | 44%
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| Z – Spanish apparel retailer based in Arteixo and specializing in fast fashion | Zara | 43%
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| F – the first word in the official name of the country whose capital is Palikir | Federated | 42%
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| R – the third-most populous city in Argentina; the name means prayer beads | Rosario | 42%
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| U – an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, like King Robert I Baratheon (according to some) | Usurper | 42%
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| G – as _______ as a three-dollar bill | Genuine | 18%
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| Q – nickname of X-Men’s Quire (aka Kid Omega), or biathlete _______ Fillon Maillet | Quentin | 12%
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| X – a branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial cultures, which is a hypothetical form of archaeology | Xenoarchaeology | 4%
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