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Hint	Answer	% Correct
From the French word "genievre", meaning "juniper," which is the name of the berry which gives this drink its distinctive bitter flavor.	Gin	72%
Comes from the Latin "sour wine" and is the best accompanyment of a plate of chips	"Vinum"+"Acer" Vinegar	72%
From the Aztec word āhuacatl meaning "testicle". Aside from the similar shape, this fruit is also an aphrodisiacs	Avocado	60%
A tough cloth originally manufactured in Nimes, France. "From Nimes"	Denim	52%
Italian for "about forty", derived from the practice of forcing the crew and cargo of arriving ships to wait for about 40 days at port to prevent the spread of disease	"Quarantina" Quarantine	52%
Italian term for "small ball or pebble." Italian citizens once voted by casting a small pebble into one of several boxes.	Ballot	48%
French for Sweden - where leather was first buffed to a fine softness before being sold.	Suede	44%
"Hash Addict" The name refers to members of a Muslim sect during the Crusades who used to smoke hashish and then murder leaders of their political oposition	"hashishiyyin" Assassin	40%
From the Czech word for "forced labour". In 1923, Karl Capek, a Czech science-fiction writer, wrote a futuristic thriller about a nightmarish scenario in which machines have taken over and implanted circuitry in humans to make them into mindless zombies willing to serve them as workers.	Robot	40%
In the early days of Rome its soldiers were given a handful of salt each day. The salt ration was subsequently replaced by a sum of money referred to as their "salt money"	"Salarium" Salary	40%
From Italian "To Arms!" is still used today as a warning.	"all'arme" or Alarm	36%
"Bad Air" - from old Italian, as used to describe the fever one supposedly contracted from spending time around the bad air of swamps or bogs.	"Mal"+"Aire" Malaria	36%
From the Latin for "crossroads" or literally "three streets". Deriving from ancient Roman intersections that would have a kiosk where ancillary tidbits of information were listed.	"Tri"+"Via" Trivia	36%
This word for "Mind Control" was named after an 18th / 19th century German physician and researcher of animal magnetism.	Mesmerize or Mesmerism	32%
This word translates literally from the Greek word meaning "A ball of string". Current usage derives from the Greek myth of Theseus un-ravelling a ball of string in order to find his way out of a maze.	"Clew" Clue	20%

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