| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| Face value of a blank tile in Scrabble® | Hasbro | 0 | 88%
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| √100 ÷ √25 | √100 ÷ √25 = 10 ÷ √25 = 10 ÷ 5 = 2 | 2 | 84%
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| 400 20/23 + 200 2/23 + 100 1/23 = x | 400 20/23 + 200 2/23 + 100 1/23 = (400 + 200 + 100) + (20/23 + 2/23 + 1/23) = 700 + (20/23 + 2/23 + 1/23) = 700 + 23/23 = 700 + 1 = 701 | 701 | 80%
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| The year punk broke, according to the title of the 1992 film that featured music by Sonic Youth, Nirvana and the Ramones, among others | Wikipedia | 1991 | 76%
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| four score and seven minus one dozen | - a score is a collection of 20 units - a dozen is a collection of 12 units Four score = 20 * 4 = 80 Four score and seven = 80 + 7 = 87 87 - 12 = 75 | 75 | 72%
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| Age of the children contestants tried to demonstrate they were smarter than in the title of a British game show that aired on Sky 1 from 2007-2010 | Wikipedia | 10 | 60%
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| Number of JetPunk sovereign states that share a land border with Belarus | Wikipedia | 5 | 56%
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| Value (in $US) of the highest denomination federal reserve note ever printed for public circulation in the U.S. | Investopedia | 10,000 | 52%
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| The only non-zero number whose value is twice the sum of its digits | Algebra.com | 18 | 52%
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| D ÷ II | The Roman numerals D and II are equivalent to the Arabic numbers 500 and 2, respectively. 500 ÷ 2 = 250 | 250 | 52%
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| Number of sides an icosienneagon has | Wikidata | 29 | 36%
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| Number of roses in the name of a bourbon whiskey produced in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky | Wikipedia | 4 | 36%
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| Atomic number of the element iron | Wikipedia | 26 | 32%
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| In slang, the number of pounds sterling sometimes referred to as a “monkey” | Wikipedia | 500 | 28%
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| Number of letters in the Ligurian alphabet | Wikipedia | 25 | 20%
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| Number of playing pieces used by each player in a game of Othello | World Othello Federation | 32 | 20%
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| December date on which the Church of England commemorates John, Apostle and Evangelist | The Church of England | 27 | 16%
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| Number of generations of Jesus’s genealogy presented in the Gospel of Matthew | Wikipedia | 42 | 12%
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| Number of minutes past 4 o’clock that the train left Paddington Station in the title of Agatha Christie’s 1957 novel published in the U.S. as What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! | Wikipedia | 50 | 12%
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| Number of provinces (wilāyat) that comprise the first level administrative divisions of Afghanistan | Wikipedia | 34 | 8%
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