| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| H – Cecilia Payne was the first the realize that stars are mostly made of this element (and helium) | Hydrogen | 88%
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| M – first name of NHL star Lemieux, or brother of Nintendo’s Luigi | Mario | 86%
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| J – capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa | Johannesburg | 82%
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| T – the three literature genres created by Aristotle were the epic, comedy and _______ | Tragedy | 82%
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| D – the angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, or a quick swim | Dip | 80%
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| F – not Homer Simpson, but a region in Belgium | Flanders | 78%
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| R – to oxidize iron, or first name used by Cohle in True Detective | Rust | 78%
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| U – most of the western half of this U.S. state lies in the Great Basin | Utah | 78%
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| B – follows bell or belly | Button | 71%
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| Q – punctuation mark that is “küsimärk” in Estonian | Question mark | 71%
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| S – winter sport in which a person rides a sled face down and head-first, or a bodily system of originally about 300 parts and later 206 parts | Skeleton | 69%
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| Y – round tent used as a dwelling by nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia | Yurt | 65%
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| G – City of ___, 2002 movie that depicts the growth of organized crime in the suburbs of Rio (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) | God | 63%
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| L – a solitaire, a marble game, a board game, or a maze | Labyrinth | 60%
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| I – first name of German philosopher Kant who is best known for his work in ethics and metaphysics | Immanuel | 55%
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| P – acronym meaning a bobby, a computer, or sensitive to all ethnicities, etc. | PC | 51%
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| E – “Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien; I'm an _________ in New York” | Englishman | 50%
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| C – actor Tim (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Annie) | Curry | 46%
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| K – grounding of the ball on the opponent’s court in volleyball, or what Michael E. Brown did to Pluto | Kill | 42%
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| V – British multinational telecommunications company whose name comes from words that reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones | Vodafone | 42%
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| O – Richard who created quiz show Pointless and wrote The Thursday Murder Club | Osman | 35%
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| Z – title of Disney film Zootopia in Europe (referring to animals’ metropolis) | Zootropolis | 29%
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| N – capital of Tonga, which was inundated by a tsunami in 2022 | Nukuʻalofa | 28%
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| W – the Stone Roses’ hit “I _____ __ Adored” | Wanna Be | 28%
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| A – H. Rider Haggard‘s 1887 best-seller She: A History of _________ about a journey to Africa | Adventure | 7%
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| X – concert residency by Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas which ended prematurely due to Covid-19 | The Xperience | 2%
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