| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| B – _____ list is (originally) a list of activities to do before dying, referring to the idiom “kick the _____” | Bucket | 92%
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| U – a small four-stringed guitar | Ukulele | 89%
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| J – precedes walking, follows blue | Jay | 82%
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| A – U.S. state mentioned in John Green‘s novel Looking for ______ | Alaska | 80%
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| P – language where you’d count “jeden, dwa, trzy, cztery, ...” | Polish | 78%
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| S – Norwegian phrase “Snakker du engelsk?” means “Do you _____ _______?” | Speak English | 78%
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| W – Disney film where a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey | WALL-E | 74%
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| E – Australian former professional racing cyclist Cadel, or actor Chris (Captain America) | Evans | 71%
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| H – not Starsky, but a cage in which rabbits are kept | Hutch | 70%
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| Q – four successive cards of the same suit, or two pints | Quart | 65%
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| N – ethnic group who, on 27 Sep, 1066, set sail from the mouth of the River Somme towards England | Normans | 64%
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| Z – nickname of the Botswana national football team, named after African equines | The Zebras | 62%
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| I – East ______, a broad term used nowadays to refer to the Malay Archipelago | Indies | 60%
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| Y – Chinese base unit of currency | Yuan | 51%
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| G – architect who died after being hit by a tram and whose masterpiece La Sagrada Família is to be completed 100 years later – or not | Antoni Gaudí | 50%
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| C – in 1991, Simferopol became the capital of the Autonomous Republic of ______, or ______n Peninsula | Crimea | 50%
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| K – the oldest operating airline in the world | KLM | 47%
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| M – besides Guatemala, the only country in the world that has a firearm on their flag | Mozambique | 46%
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| D – a VoIP and instant messaging social platform with a game controller-shaped logo | Discord | 44%
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| R – the capital of Dominica | Roseau | 36%
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| X – creature in Alien, or a mineral also known as allotriomorph | Xenomorph | 30%
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| L – “father of liberalism” John who was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness | Locke | 29%
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| F – Radiohead’s 1995 hit “Street Spirit (____ Out)” | Fade | 23%
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| O – “But I won't cry for yesterday, there's an ________ world, somehow I have to find” | Ordinary | 19%
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| V – region in Italy whose capital is Venice | Veneto | 15%
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| T – Doreen Cronin’s children’s book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That ____ | Type | 8%
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