| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| Number of days in August | 31 | 97%
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| Number of U.S. states whose name begins with “L” | Louisiana | 1 | 91%
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| Number of months whose English language name begins with “M” | March, May | 2 | 91%
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| 22 + 22 | 22 = (2 * 2) = 4 4 + 4 = 8 | 8 | 91%
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| Number of sides a pentadecagon has | 15 | 86%
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| Number of quarters equivalent to US$ 100.00 | One dollar = 100 cents One quarter = 25 cents One dollar = 4 quarters (1 dollar * 100) = (4 quarters * 100) 100 dollars = 400 quarters | 400 | 86%
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| L * II | 50 * 2 = 100 | 100 | 83%
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| Number of sovereign states with at least one capital (of any type) whose name starts with “X” | 0 | 77%
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| One dozen plus one score = x | 12 + 20 = x 32 = x | 32 | 74%
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| Age of the virgin in the title of the 2005 film starring Steve Carell and Catherine Keener | Apatow, Judd. (Director). (2005). The 40-Year-Old Virgin [Film]. Apatow Productions. Starring Steve Carell and Catherine Keener. | 40 | 69%
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| x = 92630⁄15 + 2 | x = (926 + 30⁄15) + 2 x = (926 + 2) + 2 x = 928 + 2 x = 930 | 930 | 69%
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| Not including the square in which it starts, the maximum number of squares a rook can move in a single chess turn. | 7 | 57%
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| Number of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution that granted electors to the District of Columbia | 23 | 49%
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| In the Anglican, Lutheran, Moravian, Presbyterian, and Methodist calendars, the earliest November date on which Advent can begin | 27 | 49%
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| Thomas Jefferson Parkway address of Monticello, Jefferson’s home now located in Charlottesville, VA | 931 | 46%
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| Number of sovereign states whose English language JetPunk name begins with “I” | Iceland, India, Indonesia Iran, Iraq, Ireland Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast | 9 | 43%
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| Number of U.S. state capitals that begin with “L” | Lansing, MI; Lincoln, NE; Little Rock, AR | 3 | 40%
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| Fleet Street address of Sweeney Todd | 186 | 29%
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| The number the protagonist is in Pittacus Lore’s 2010 novel about a teenage alien being hunted down in Ohio; and in the 2011 film based on the novel. | Lore, P. (2010). I Am Number Four. Lorien Legacies series, Volume 1. HarperCollins. Caruso, D. J. (Director). (2011). I Am Number Four [Film]. DreamWorks Pictures; Reliance Big Entertainment; Bay Films. Starring Alex Pettyfer and Timothy Olyphant. | 4 | 26%
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| “Thou shalt not kill” commandment number in the KJV | 6 | 20%
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