| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| 14 * 40 | 14 * 40 = (1 * 1 * 1 * 1) * 40 = 1 * 40 = 40 | 40 | 91%
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| 33 + 100/10 | 33 + 100/10 = 33 + (100 ÷ 10) = 33 + 10 = 43 | 43 | 91%
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| Number of U.S. state capitals that begin with “Z” | Wikipedia: List of capitals in the United States | 0 | 86%
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| D * II | The Roman numerals D and II are equivalent to the Arabic numbers 500 and 2, respectively. So, … 500 * 2 = 1000 | 1000 | 86%
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| Phoenix needs two cups of pumpkin to make a pumpkin spice cake. The can of pumpkin in her pantry contains 8 cups. Assuming she has enough of all the other ingredients, how many pumpkin spice cakes can Phoenix make? | pumpkin/cakes : 2 cups/1 cake = 8 cups/x cakes Cross multiplication yields … 8 = 2x Divide both sides of the equation by 2 to find 4 = x | 4 | 86%
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| If one U.S. dollar is worth 105 Japanese yen (it isn’t, but just pretend …!), how many dollars is 945 yen worth? | dollar/yen : 1/105 = x/945 Cross multiplication yields … 945 = 105x Divide both sides of the equation by 105 to find … 9 = x | 9 | 86%
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| According to the idiom, the number that constitutes a crowd | The Free Dictionary: two's company, three's a crowd | 3 | 82%
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| The sum of the first five positive integers | Wikipedia: Integer | 15 | 77%
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| Number of JetPunk sovereign nations that share a land border with Chad (borders that run through rivers and lakes are considered land borders) | Wikipedia: Chad | 6 | 77%
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| Number of days in the month of Iyar in the Hebrew calendar | Wikipedia: Hebrew calendar | 29 | 73%
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| Number of sides a pentacontagon has | Wikidata: pentacontagon | 50 | 68%
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| Year Canute (Cnut), Prince of Denmark, became the King of England | Wikipedia: Cnut | 1016 | 64%
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| Number of administrative districts that, along with the cities of Gaborone and Francistown; and the towns of Lobatse, Selebi-Phikwe, Orapa, Jwaneng and Sowa, comprise the first-level administrative divisions of Botswana | Wikipedia: Districts of Botswana | 10 | 55%
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| Regnal number of Pope Francis’s predecessor | Wikipedia: Pope Benedict XVI | 16 | 55%
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| Year the soldiers of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from the Fatimid Caliphate | Wikipedia: First Crusade | 1099 | 50%
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| Number found in the name of a San Francisco-based bag manufacturer perhaps best known for their backpacks, messenger bags and travel bags. Extra clue: The company’s name is a homophone with the name of an ancient city in Mali | Wikipedia: Timbuk2 | 2 | 50%
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| In inches, the maximum length of a regulation baseball bat | Wikipedia: Baseball bat | 42 | 41%
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| Red number in the title of the 2024 Christmas action/comedy film that starred Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu and J.K. Simmons | Wikipedia: Red One (film) | 1 | 32%
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| The number of times Dorothy Gale clicked her heels together to return home from Oz * the number of inches in a hand (a unit for measuring the height of a horse) | Wikipedia: The Wizard of Oz 3 * 4 = 12 | 12 | 32%
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| Atomic number of the element silver | Wikipedia: Silver | 47 | 27%
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