| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Greek goddess of Love and Beauty | Aphrodite | 91%
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| What teeth do best (when not smiling) | Bite | 89%
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| Alfred Nobel's prize invention | Dynamite | 86%
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| What dramatists, lyricists and journalists do for a living | Write | 83%
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| Popular flying toy, also the name of a bird of prey | Kite | 80%
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| If you mind your manners, people will consider you this | Polite | 80%
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| An elf, fairy, or popular U.S. soft drink | Sprite | 80%
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| Common advertising abbreviation meaning "fewer calories." Often used for beer. | Lite | 77%
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| A "shooting star" that makes it all the way to the ground | Meteorite | 77%
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| To repeat from memory | Recite | 77%
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| A ceremony, often religious | Rite | 77%
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| A physical location, or where web pages live in cyberspace | Site | 74%
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| Last name of Betty, Barry, Vanna or Snow | White | 74%
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| To ask people to join you | Invite | 71%
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| Ill will, hatefulness or animus | Spite | 71%
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| It puts the lead in your pencil | Graphite | 69%
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| A plant or animal having both male and female reproductive organs | Hermaphrodite | 66%
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| Tiny arthropod, often a pest to farmers, or, a very small amount | Mite | 63%
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| To list your sources, when publishing | Cite | 57%
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| A rest, a break or a breather | Respite | 54%
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| Boring, common and not very imaginitive | Trite | 54%
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| Fool's gold | Iron Pyrite | 51%
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| Educated, learned or knowledgeable | Erudite | 49%
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| Consisting of three parts | Tripartite | 46%
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| Aluminum ore | Bauxite | 37%
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| In the Bible, a descendant of the patriarch Jacob | Israelite | 37%
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| A loyal follower of King James II of England (no relation to any biblical patriarchs) | Jacobite | 37%
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| To speed up or hurry, as with a process | Expedite | 31%
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| A prominent person around town, often wealthy | Socialite | 31%
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| Famed sexologist Shere | Hite | 29%
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| Very much so | Quite | 26%
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| A common chemical salt, often used in preserved foods, like sausages | Nitrite | 23%
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| To do something anyways, possibly with contempt | Despite | 20%
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| If you don't mind your manners, you may wind up feeling like this | Contrite | 9%
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| When everyone in a group casts a vote | Plebiscite | 3%
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