| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| C – slang for gonorrhea, or what you do with your hands after a performance | Clap | 95%
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| A – old in German, or ctrl+___+del | Alt | 94%
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| E – CEO is Chief ____ Officer | Executive | 88%
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| P – ____ Panther, an animated character or a diamond | Pink | 88%
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| W – in 1907, Finland became the first country to have _____ elected to Parliament | Women | 83%
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| B – sport named after the estate of the Duke of Beaufort (who introduced the racket game at a lawn-party) | Badminton | 80%
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| Y – country that came into existence after WWI in 1918 and dissolved in the early 90s | Yugoslavia | 77%
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| H – Etta James’s hit “Something's Got a ____ on Me” | Hold | 75%
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| K – precedes start, follows side | Kick | 70%
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| U – Tupac Shakur’s album _____ the End of Time | Until | 70%
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| S – not club, but a shovel | Spade | 66%
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| Z – first name of Malik who left One Direction in 2015 | Zayn | 66%
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| O – Wilbur Wright’s little brother, who died when Neil Armstrong was 17 years old | Orville | 61%
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| J – tried to return his 30 pieces of silver, ended up throwing them away and committing suicide | Judas | 60%
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| M – ____ Man (video game with treacherous Dr. Wily), or a prefix meaning “large” used in taxonomy | Mega | 59%
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| I – American TV magic show Masters of ________ | Illusion | 56%
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| G – mother of Liza Minnelli; played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz | Judy Garland | 55%
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| Q – QPR is ______ ____ Rangers | Queens Park | 44%
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| T – 2020 spy film by Christopher Nolan where things can move forwards or backwards in time; the title is (fittingly) a palindrome | Tenet | 41%
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| F – capital city of Kentucky | Frankfort | 38%
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| R – vehicle propelled by a reaction gas engine, or a leaf vegetable (“rucola” in Italian) | Rocket | 33%
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| D – book whose original version starts: “Zondag, 14 juni 1942. Vridag 12 juni was ik al om 6 uur ...” | The Diary of Anne Frank | 30%
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| L – Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty _______ the People, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 | Leading | 17%
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| X – American cable provider (before 2010 known as Comcast) | Xfinity | 17%
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| V – fictional country Val _____; the missing word is also in the name of a real country in Africa | Verde | 16%
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| N – island with the highest elevation | New Guinea | 8%
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