| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| G – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great ______ about the Jazz Age of the 1920s | Gatsby | 93%
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| B – David, the first English soccer player to win league titles in four countries | Beckham | 92%
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| O – shape of an office that features a fireplace and three south-facing windows behind the president’s desk | Oval | 92%
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| E – Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table of the ________ | Elements | 90%
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| H – a city in the Caribbean, or a hit by Camila Cabello | Havana | 85%
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| I – what you used to listen to music in 2008 if Apple’s your thing | iPod | 85%
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| F – father and daughter actors Henry and Jane | Fonda | 79%
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| V – a carrion-eating bird, or a person who profits from the suffering of others | Vulture | 77%
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| C – a storage closet, or a council of high-ranking members of government | Cabinet | 74%
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| U – may contain either coffee or a dead person | Urn | 74%
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| L – a ride, or what a rising tide does to all boats | Lift | 71%
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| N – TV show inspired by Luc Besson's thriller La Femme ______, or first name of USSR leader Khrushchev | Nikita | 70%
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| R – Harvey Comics character or TV series ______ Rich | Richie | 66%
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| A – a general term for a minor planet of the inner Solar System | Asteroid | 59%
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| S – word that was first used in 2002 and now covers a significant portion of all photographs in social media | Selfie | 55%
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| P – country that has the world’s largest contiguous irrigation system | Pakistan | 54%
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| M – if you drive north from Bamako, you end up in this country | Mauritania | 53%
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| W – Barbra Streisand’s biggest hit “_____ in Love” | Woman | 53%
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| K – the only republic remaining in the Soviet Union in December 1991 before it ceased to exist | Kazakhstan | 52%
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| D – meaning of “Dolci” on a menu of an Italian restaurant | Dessert | 48%
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| J – ____ Kids, a memoir by Patti Smith | Just | 41%
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| Y – Alfonso Cuarón’s film _ __ mamá también (And Your Mom Too) | Y tu | 38%
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| T – the most famous person with first names John Ronald Reuel | J. R. R. Tolkien | 34%
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| Q – arcade game where the objective is to change every cube in a pyramid to a target colour by making _*____ hop on top of the cube | Q*bert | 20%
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| X – city in Greece famous for its annual spring carnival | Xanthi | 9%
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| Z – unit prefix meaning a factor of 10 to the power of negative twenty-one; “септо” in Bulgarian | Zepto | 9%
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