| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| C – the basic unit of a living organism, or short for mobile phone | Cell | 95%
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| Y – a form of singing, originally used by herders calling their flocks or to communicate between Alpine villages | Yodel | 89%
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| O – the 2nd largest province by total area in Canada | Ontario | 85%
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| K – South Korean car manufacturer, or New Zealand greeting “___ ora” | Kia | 82%
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| L – what every metaphorical cloud has of silver colour | Lining | 80%
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| G – Lac Léman at the French-Swiss border is also known as Lake ______ | Geneva | 79%
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| M – not communicative, not dad | Mum | 78%
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| T – precedes break, follows bow | Tie | 76%
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| U – not expected, or American documentary TV program ________ Suspects | Unusual | 70%
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| D – a place to sleep; its anagram is “dirty room” | Dormitory | 66%
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| I – G.I. (e.g. G.I. Joe) originally stood for Galvanized ____ | Iron | 66%
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| W – Erysimum (a genus of flowering plants), or The Perks of Being a __________ | Wallflower | 66%
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| N – NSFW is ___ ____ For Work | Not Safe | 64%
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| Q – the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history | Qing | 63%
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| V – the capital of Lithuania | Vilnius | 63%
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| E – country where the last battle or “skirmish” occurred on 18 December 1745 (if you don’t count a bit of tussling in 1838 and 1940) | England | 57%
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| Z – virus that caused an epidemic in 2015–2016 in the Americas (____ fever) | Zika | 53%
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| B – “There's a lady who's sure; All that glitters is gold; And she's ______ a stairway to heaven …” | Buying | 50%
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| P – agricultural goods, or what Aphex Twin does to albums | Produce | 49%
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| S – a children's card game where players claim pairs of matching cards, or what someone suffering a mental breakdown does | Snap | 48%
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| R – authors Anne ____ and Edgar ____ Burroughs | Rice | 46%
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| J – first name of Thorpe, the first Native American to win a gold medal for the U.S. in the Olympics | Jim | 43%
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| A – Tajikistan was part of Uzbekistan as an __________ republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929 | Autonomous | 26%
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| F – Johann Sebastian Bach’s 18th century hit “Toccata and _____” | Fugue | 23%
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| H – an alien in Avengers Assemble, a sponge-like moon of Saturn, or Titan who fathered Helios | Hyperion | 6%
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| X – a people in Ethiopia speaking the Xamtanga language | Xamir | 2%
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