| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| C – not Mongolia, but porcelain | China | 91%
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| Q – a pen made from a feather | Quill | 83%
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| S – capital city whose anagram is “louse” | Seoul | 80%
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| T – Тетрис (a puzzle video game created in 1984) | Tetris | 80%
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| D – minimum age to get it varies from 14 to 23; the first ever was granted to Karl Benz | Driver’s licence | 78%
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| I – to administer a shot to someone, especially of medicine or drugs | Inject | 76%
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| B – Scottish poet and lyricist Robert, or Homer Simpson's evil boss | Burns | 75%
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| R – a formation of pieces of material orbiting a planet, or what a Brit with a phone in hand intends to do | Ring | 70%
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| U – the shortest way from Zamość in Poland to Suceava in Romania is through this country | Ukraine | 69%
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| E – the only country in North America that doesn't border the Atlantic | El Salvador | 66%
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| V – first name of Da Gama who allegedly killed hundreds of people | Vasco | 66%
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| A – is “artificiōsus” in Latin, or Dodger in Oliver Twist | Artful | 64%
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| F – dance _____, or what can be done to the gas pedal | Floor | 63%
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| K – first name of Bates who played Annie in Misery and Evelyn in Fried Green Tomatoes | Kathy | 63%
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| W – Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny | Weasley | 62%
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| M – oratorio composed in 1741 by Händel, or the awaited leader of the people of Israel | Messiah | 60%
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| O – 1929–1953 Bouvier, 1953–1968 Kennedy, 1968–1994_______ | Onassis | 59%
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| G – first name of Mendel whose pea plant experiments established many of the rules of heredity | Gregor | 56%
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| P – pope in Dutch, or P in NATO phonetic alphabet | Papa | 55%
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| H – espionage thriller TV series starring Claire Danes, or what Ithaca was to Odysseus | Homeland | 49%
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| Y – Keith Urban’s 2002 hit “_____ Think of Me” | You’ll | 44%
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| L – follows pad, precedes down | Lock | 37%
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| X – Pope John _____, head of Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963 | XXIII | 35%
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| J – Jackie ______-Kersee | Joyner | 34%
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| N – the only N capital in an N country | Niamey | 20%
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| Z – replicant who worked as an exotic dancer in Blade Runner; rhymes with the short plural form of “forum” | Zhora | 4%
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