| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h... | Alphabet | 100%
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| You'd find the cities Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth here. | Australia | 91%
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| Country in the Balkans. | Albania | 82%
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| _____ in wonderland. | Alice | 82%
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| One of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe. | Alps | 82%
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| A small insect with six legs. | Ant | 82%
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| South American country. The name derives from the Latin word for silver and the name is associated with the legendary silver mountains of the La Plata Basin. | Argentina | 79%
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| Used to connect words of the same part of speech, clauses, or sentences, that are to be taken jointly. | And | 76%
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| To respond to a question. | Answer | 76%
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| One of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the other three being subtraction, multiplication, and division. | Addition | 73%
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| Tiny country between France & Spain, population some 80,800 people. | Andorra | 70%
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| Hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. | Anime | 70%
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| Country known for its love of wrestling. Next to Azerbaijan. | Armenia | 70%
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| Loss of memory. | Amnesia | 67%
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| a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. | Auschwitz | 64%
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| A city in the NorthEast of Scotland - called the marble city. There are a lot of offshore oil rigs in the sea just to the east of this city. | Aberdeen | 61%
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| The youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. | Anastasia | 61%
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| The highest mountain range outside of Asia. | Andes | 61%
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| Fought a war of Independence with France in the 1960s. | Algeria | 58%
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| A legal requirement for one spouse to provide financial assistance to the other during or after a divorce or separation. | Alimony | 58%
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| In 27 BC Octavian became the first imperator, or emperor, of Rome, under the name ______ which means “deeply respected”. | Augustus | 55%
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| Mustafa Kemal ______ (lived 1881–1938) was founder and first president of the republic of Turkey. | Ataturk | 52%
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| Palestinian political leader. | Arafat | 48%
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| A fruit, often orange in colour. | Apricot | 45%
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| A sovereign archipelagic country comprising its two namesake islands and several smaller ones. Positioned where the Atlantic and Caribbean meet, it's known for reef-lined beaches, rainforests and resorts. | Antigua and Barbuda | 42%
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| A French comic album series about a Gaulish village which, thanks to a magic potion that enhances strength, resists the forces of Julius Caesar's Roman Republic Army in a nonhistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars _______ & Obelix | Asterix | 42%
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| Rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. | Asteroid | 42%
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| Art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. | Abstract | 39%
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| A depressant drug sometimes known by its chemical name ethanol. | Alcohol | 39%
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| Medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammals native to Africa. They have a long proboscis, similar to a pig's snout, which is used to sniff out food. | Aardvark | 36%
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| A Scottish region, a breed of cattle, a given name, and a community in Canada. | Angus | 36%
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| Having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich. | Affluent | 33%
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| A name for several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking Indigenous peoples of North America, primarily residing in the Southwest, Southern Plains, and Northern Mexico, with linguistic ties to the Navajo. | Apache | 33%
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| Now considered part of the broader diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is characterized by difficulties in social interaction, communication, and repetitive behaviors, often with average or above-average intelligence | Aspergers | 33%
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| The highest peak in South America at 6,961 m (22,838 ft). | Aconcagua | 30%
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| A type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods. | Amoeba | 27%
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| The first name of Italian Marxist, ______ Gramsci. | Antonio | 27%
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| A British supermarket and petrol station chain. | Asda | 27%
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| Athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination. | Acrobat | 24%
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| The lymph nodes that are located there. | Armpit | 24%
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| Truculent or uncooperative behaviour."I asked the waiter for a clean fork and all I got was _____" | Attitude | 21%
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| Undergo great mental struggle through worrying about something. | Agonise | 12%
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| The distance of an object or point from a reference datum, usually in a vertical or upward direction. | Altitude | 12%
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| A living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli. | Animal | 12%
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| A British retailer operating in the United Kingdom online and through catalogues. | Argos | 12%
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| Extremely silly or foolish. | Asinine | 12%
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| ____ the Great (ruled 1556–1605) was the third Mughal Emperor of India. | Akbar | 9%
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| A colourless, reactive gas that is lighter than air (approximately half as heavy) which dissolves readily in water. | Ammonia | 9%
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| Ion ________, a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. He was responsible for facilitating the Holocaust in Romania, he was tried for war crimes and executed in 1946. | Antonescu | 9%
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| Involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring. | Arduous | 9%
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| Inspiring great affection or delight. | Adorable | 6%
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| A 37-mile (60km) turf fortification built by the Romans in the 2nd century AD, stretched across central Scotland from the Firth of Clyde to the Firth of Forth, serving as a frontier and a symbol of Roman power. | Antonine | 6%
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| After Julius Caesar’s death, two prominent Romans began to struggle for power. One was a fellow consul of Caesar’s, Mark Antony, who became the lover of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. The other was Caesar’s great-nephew, Octavian. Octavian declared war on Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC and defeated them at the Battle of _____. | Actium | 3%
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