| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| A – Plato’s student who disagreed with Plato’s ideas on equality of men and women and was (unfortunately) the more influential philosopher of the two | Aristotle | 90%
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| C – a type of spaniel, or Joe who sang “Up Where We Belong” with Jennifer Warnes | Cocker | 89%
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| N – in units, between micro and pico | Nano | 88%
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| Y – the time it takes Tellus to complete one revolution of the Sun | Year | 85%
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| K – inability to resist the urge to steal items | Kleptomania | 82%
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| U – general of the Union Army and U.S. president _____ S. Grant, or a variant of the name Odysseus | Ulysses | 82%
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| W – witch or warlock, like Merlin | Wizard | 82%
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| D – baseball team from Michigan: _____ Tigers | Detroit | 80%
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| T – to practice an ability, or Paula Hawkins novel “The Girl on the ___” | Train | 80%
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| J – 2007 movie of a pregnant teenager, or Roman goddess married to Jupiter | Juno | 78%
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| G – serious and sombre, or the last place where most of us will go | Grave | 77%
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| O – “____Trail”, a series of educational computer games, referring to a U.S. state | Oregon | 76%
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| F – (in the book) a second-year university student from Geneva who creates a live humanoid from dead tissues | Victor Frankenstein | 76%
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| I – Billy who'd do anything for his sweet sixteen | Idol | 74%
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| L – U.S. city in a desert; name means “The Meadows” | Las Vegas | 74%
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| B – a country on an island in the Persian Gulf | Bahrain | 73%
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| R – the young kangaroo in Winnie-the-Pooh | Roo | 73%
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| E – the current lingua franca of international business, science, aviation, etc. | English | 71%
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| Q – Marvel character who moves at superhuman speed, or a common name for mercury | Quicksilver | 69%
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| H – Mad About You actor Helen, or something that the fox really, really does not look forward to | Hunt | 68%
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| S – a weekly current affairs magazine published in Germany, or the rear part of a ship | Stern | 65%
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| P – P in OPEC | Petroleum | 49%
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| V – 2012 album by Grimes, based on the Latin word for "act of seeing” | Visions | 44%
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| M – a word familiar to sports fans and pyromaniacs, or something mothers are constantly trying to find for their daughters if we believe Jane Austen | Match | 40%
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| X – one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe | Xhosa | 38%
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| Z – Robert who directed “Back to the Future” and “Forrest Gump” | Zemeckis | 35%
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