| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| W – The Wolf of ____ ______, 2013 movie with Leonardo diCaprio | Wall Street | 88%
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| D – (pieces of) information, especially in a scientific or computational context | Data | 87%
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| K – palindrome that you can move with a double-bladed paddle | Kayak | 84%
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| V – short for a type of doctor, or what FBI does to all nominees to the Federal bench | Vet | 71%
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| A – precedes strong, follows strong | Arm | 68%
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| E – character in Stranger Things with psychokinetic abilities, or “onze” | Eleven | 68%
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| G – your _____ is as good as mine | Guess | 68%
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| Y – Russian president who defied communist hardliners from atop a tank to thwart their coup | Boris Yeltsin | 64%
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| C – globally, the second-largest island of France | Corsica | 64%
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| I – beach location in Rio mentioned in the bossa nova jazz song, “The Girl from _______” | Ipanema | 60%
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| M – country where the largest cities include Seberang Perai and Johor Bahru | Malaysia | 60%
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| B – Green ____, 2018 movie where a working-class bouncer becomes the driver of a classical pianist on a tour through the 1960s American South | Book | 55%
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| N – where football (soccer) legend George Best was from | Northern Ireland | 52%
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| T – 70s sitcom The Mary _____ Moore Show | Tyler | 52%
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| Q – a fast foxtrot noted for its complex and intricate footwork | Quickstep | 44%
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| J – the Rolling Stones’ hit “Rip This _____”, or J in .JPG | Joint | 38%
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| R – capital city of the U.S. state that was named after Elizabeth I (or perhaps the land, and not the queen, was untouched) | Richmond | 36%
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| U – first name of The Name of the Rose author Eco, or a king | Umberto | 35%
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| O – Leia’s surname in Star Wars | Organa | 25%
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| L – Carl who formalised the modern system of naming organisms | Linnaeus | 23%
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| F – the largest city on the island of Kyushu | Fukuoka | 21%
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| P – the closest star to Sun that has an exoplanet | Proxima Centauri | 20%
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| Z – car-free ski resort town in Switzerland where you can see Matterhorn | Zermatt | 20%
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| H – the first non-president in series 1W-2J-5L-10H-20J-50G-100F | Alexander Hamilton | 18%
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| X – cross between a xylophone and a marimba | Xylorimba | 10%
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| S – in Euchre, if you _____ the dealer, the dealer is forced to call trump | Stick | 2%
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