| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| Year of the Norman Conquest | 1066 | 92%
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| 1,000 * 0.5 | 500 | 92%
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| Route number of the U.S. highway that stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica from 1926 until 1985 | 66 | 92%
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| DCCLXXXIX | 789 | 92%
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| √10,000 | 100 | 87%
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| Minimum age for a presidential candidate in the US | 35 | 87%
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| Number of U.S. states whose name begins with “D” | Delaware. | 1 | 79%
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| Number of U.S. state capitals whose name begins with “E” | 0 | 74%
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| Hauser Street address of the Bunker family on All in the Family | 704 | 55%
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| Number of Sicilies in the name of a kingdom in southern Italy (1816-1861) | 2 | 50%
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| Waist measurement (in inches) of what was once considered the “perfect” hourglass figure | 24 | 50%
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| Number of little birds in the title of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ 1980 single | 3 | 50%
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| Number of fists in the title of Disturbed’s 2005 album | 10,000 | 37%
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| Number on the purple-striped pool ball in a traditional set | 12 | 37%
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| In the French Republican calendar (used 1793-1805), the number of days in a week | 10 | 34%
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| Number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet | 22 | 34%
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| Number of the nervous breakdown in the title of the Rolling Stones’ 1966 single | 19 | 32%
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| Number of sides a hendecagon has | 11 | 29%
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| Number of countries (including the two Congos) whose English language JetPunk name begins with “C” | Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, the two Congos, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic. | 17 | 29%
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| Number of countries whose de jure executive capital’s name begins with “C” (excluding Comayagüela) | Cairo, Canberra, Caracas, Castries, Chișinău, Colombo, Conakry, Copenhagen. Cape Town is a legislative capital, not an executive one. Cotonou is the de facto capital of Benin, but not the legal one. | 8 | 24%
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