| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| D – 2006 American comedy film The ____ Wears Prada | Devil | 96%
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| N – first name of Kidman (Moulin Rouge!, Australia, Paddington) | Nicole | 91%
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| M – goes around the Sun in about 88 Earth days | Mercury | 87%
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| P – 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, etc. | Prime numbers | 84%
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| G – B.B. King’s instrument | Guitar | 82%
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| T – the Earth’s lithosphere comprises a number of large ________ plates which slowly move (the theory is called plate ________s) | Tectonic | 79%
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| V – part of a helmet that protects the eyes | Visor | 76%
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| J – first name of Australian golfer Day, or the leader of the Argonauts | Jason | 73%
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| S – golden ball used in Quidditch, or what you can do on a criminal you know | Snitch | 72%
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| I – Love ______, dating reality show that originated in the U.K. in 2005 as Celebrity Love ______ | Island | 69%
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| W – online seminar, which can be pre-recorded or live streamed | Webinar | 69%
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| H – speed, or what makes waste | Haste | 68%
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| E – momentously heroic, or American video game and software developer ____ Games | Epic | 63%
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| R – a fugitive, or a song by Bon Jovi, Kanye West or Aurora | Runaway | 60%
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| B – country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies | The Bahamas | 59%
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| C – precedes sick, follows box | Car | 51%
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| A – ancient in Dutch, or audibly in English | Aloud | 48%
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| K – Africa’s largest city south of the Equator | Kinshasa | 48%
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| L – a common English title of Marcel Proust’s A la recherche de temps perdu is In Search of ____ ____ | Lost Time | 45%
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| F – William who wrote The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! | Faulkner | 43%
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| U – art museum in the Historic Centre of Florence; the name means offices | Uffizi | 32%
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| O – river in western Siberia; together with Irtysh it forms the world’s 7th-longest river system | Ob | 31%
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| Y – de facto capital of Nauru | Yaren | 30%
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| Q – “City of Presidents” in Massachusetts | Quincy | 25%
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| Z – common name for flowering plant Zamioculcas is __ plant | ZZ | 5%
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| X – photocopy in German (based on a well-known trademark) | Xerokopie | 1%
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