| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| B – religious leader whose spot of enlightenment under a bodhi tree has been preserved for about 2500 years | Buddha | 96%
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| D – a Marvel character (acronym nickname), or a person who plays and mixes recorded music for an audience | DJ | 93%
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| F – acronym for International Federation of Association Football | FIFA | 93%
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| J – not August, but named after Caesar | July | 93%
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| U – an alien spacecraft | UFO | 93%
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| O – Michelle who wrote 2018 autobiography Becoming | Obama | 91%
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| W – awarded actor Denzel (Training Day, Unstoppable) | Washington | 88%
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| H – reality TV show The Real __________ of New Jersey | Housewives | 85%
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| P – the most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere | Portuguese | 85%
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| E – someone who died – or did he? (his anagram is “Lives”) | Elvis | 84%
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| R – historic market town in Berkshire, England, or the thing you do with books | Reading | 83%
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| Y – me or I in Spanish, or a slang interjection (“__, Adrian, I did it!”) | Yo | 83%
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| X – team size in rugby union, “quinze” in French, __ in Roman numerals | XV | 74%
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| A – a law, or what thespians do | Act | 70%
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| N – Hitchcock’s 1959 spy thriller North by _________ | Northwest | 70%
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| C – skydiving devices, or tubes through which one can slide down; the board game Snakes and ladders is also known as ______ and Ladders | Chutes | 65%
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| G – plant grown as ground cover, or German writer Günter (The Tin Drum) | Grass | 63%
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| I – another name for the Volcano Islands of Japan, of which ___ Jima is one | Iwo | 61%
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| L – a great deal, or a distinct portion or plot of land | Lot | 58%
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| T – degree to which a poisonous substance may harm a cell or organism, or System of a Down’s 2001 hit | Toxicity | 49%
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| S – like, comment, _____ (in German: “gefällt mir, kommentieren, teilen”) | Share | 45%
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| M – main island of the island nation whose capital is Port Louis | Mauritius | 42%
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| V – ice hockey team _____ Golden Knights who compete in the Pacific Division of NHL | Vegas | 30%
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| K – first name of inspector Wallander created by Henning Mankell | Kurt | 24%
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| Q – multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, which creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology | Qualcomm | 13%
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| Z – Novaya ______, an archipelago in the northern part of Russia; houses the easternmost point of Europe | Zemlya | 11%
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