| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| T – sport also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff | Table tennis | 92%
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| H – to let someone off the ____ | Hook | 89%
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| G – Leader of the Soviet Union 1985–1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 85%
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| F – follows there, precedes sight | Fore | 75%
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| Z – zero, no, nothing | Zilch | 73%
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| R – a chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water | Reef | 69%
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| S – playground equipment, or what can be done both ways | Swing | 69%
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| P – first name of Dune protagonist, or apostle who started out persecuting the early disciples of Jesus but saw the light when his sight was restored by Ananias of Damascus | Paul | 68%
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| I – 2004 animated film about the family of Bob and Helen Parr, a couple of superheroes | The Incredibles | 68%
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| E – the landlocked country with the largest population | Ethiopia | 67%
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| M – the oldest capital city in the Americas (originally built around 1325) | Mexico City | 66%
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| O – the 2nd largest software company in the world, or a prophet like the priestess at Delphi | Oracle | 65%
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| W – Muddy ______, stage name of McKinley Morganfield, the father of the Chicago blues | Waters | 65%
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| A – capital of the U.S. state that borders Pennsylvania and Vermont | Albany | 61%
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| V – ______ of the Dolls, novel by Jacqueline Susann; the Swedish translation is Dockornas dal | Valley | 61%
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| L – Vivien who played Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind | Leigh | 58%
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| U – French video game company; the name includes the opposite of hard | Ubisoft | 52%
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| C – to wrap protectively, or a bed for a baby | Cradle | 50%
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| D – Don in Mad Men | Draper | 45%
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| Y – Shanghai-born Ming who was named to the All-NBA Team five times | Yao | 43%
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| N – former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal | Nehru | 42%
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| J – Portuguese form of the name John, or Brazilian city ____ Pessoa | João | 39%
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| B – person who is functionally incapacitated from extreme nervousness, emotional distress, etc., or 1994 song by Green Day | Basket Case | 29%
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| K – astronomer and author of Somnium, one of the first sci-fi novels | Johannes Kepler | 25%
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| Q – a town in France; “Kemper” in Breton language | Quimper | 18%
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| X – an Android-based operating system, or A_L R__E | XOS | 16%
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