| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Scottish loch dear to crytozoologists' hearts | Ness | 86%
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| Hindu deity Shiva can have four of these | Arms | 76%
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| Japanese comics, cartooning and animation | Manga | 74%
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| Not amateurs (or antis) | Pros | 68%
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| Main currency of Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Gabon, among others | Franc | 66%
|
| Manganese | 62%
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| Spanish for "gold" | Oro | 62%
|
| An inhabitant of Estonia, Lithuania, or Latvia | Balt | 60%
|
| First name of cotton gin inventor Whitney | Eli | 58%
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| Francium | 55%
| |
| Cobalt | 53%
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| British-made car not ergonomically suited for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (see caveat) | Mini | 48%
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| Towering, bark-skinned creature from Lord of the Rings | Ent | 45%
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| Vietnamese Lunar New Year | Tet / Tết | 42%
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| Aluminium | 39%
| |
| Falcon-headed Egyptian god | Horus | 39%
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| Boron | 37%
| |
| Helium / Berkelium / Nobelium | 35%
| |
| A class of drugs used to lower cholesterol | Statin | 29%
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| Short name for a speedy drug used by both Allied and Axis forces during WWII | Meth | 28%
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| Large-capacity receptacle from which one might sip a rauchbier, perhaps | Stein | 27%
|
| Sinister, eyeball-stealing alien collective featured in Star Trek | Borg | 25%
|
| Oganesson / Tennessine | 25%
| |
| Phosphorus | 25%
| |
| Einsteinium | 24%
| |
| British submachine gun used in WWII | Sten | 22%
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| Darmstadtium | 21%
| |
| Twice-repeated nonsense word in the title of a Tommy James and the Shondells hit song from 1968, made popular again by Billy Idol in 1981 | Mony | 19%
|
| Seven-letter element containing the name of a six-letter element | Terbium | 18%
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| Tungsten | 18%
| |
| Ytterbium | 17%
| |
| Dysprosium | 16%
| |
| Antimony | 15%
| |
| Astatine | 13%
| |
| Seaborgium | 12%
| |
| Promethium | 9%
| |
| Lutetium | 7%
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| Roentgenium | 5%
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