Statistics for AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #16

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
M – Disney’s Ariel was “The Little _____”	Mermaid	95%
O – “______’s Eleven”, movie about friends who plan to steal $160 million from a casino	Ocean	93%
E – bird that catches the worm	Early	90%
K – first name of NBA star Bryant who died in 2020, or a city in the country mentioned on the previous row	Kobe	90%
C – pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry	Marie Curie	90%
J – country that has more pets than children	Japan	89%
R – alternative band My Chemical _____, or a language such as French or Italian	Romance	87%
H – is “hören” in German, or what Marvin Gaye did through the grapevine	Hear	84%
X – superhero team who appeared in comic books created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; later a superhero film series	X-Men	84%
V – the nearest place where a day is longer than a year	Venus	81%
S – a grammatically complete series of words, or a punishment	Sentence	80%
Y – playing Twister, the referee may call out “Left hand, _____”	Yellow	78%
N – to hit a target, or a thin, horny plate at the ends of your bodily extremities	Nail	77%
L – not first, but what a shoemaker might use	Last	75%
U – “Bourne ______”, Matt Damon’s third Jason Bourne movie; the name means “the last one” or “a final statement” in Latin	Ultimatum	75%
W – messaging and voice-over-IP service bought by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion	WhatsApp	75%
Z – the point in the sky directly overhead (the opposite of nadir)	Zenith	73%
Q – to lose heart or courage, or a small game bird	Quail	72%
B – gate at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße in Berlin, dating from 1791	Brandenburg Gate	70%
P – fictional Belgian who used his little grey cells famously in England	Hercule Poirot	51%
G – the capital of Sierra Leone is Freetown, but this other African country has a capital with a name that means “free town”	Gabon (Libreville)	50%
I – the second largest peninsula of the world	Indian Peninsula	46%
T – when the world was divided in 1883, most European countries got one, Canada got six, Russia got eleven and China only wanted one of this	Time zone	45%
F – Henry who wrote “Tom Jones”, or Helen who wrote about another Jones and her diary	Fielding	36%
D – first name of Purcell who played Lincoln Burrows in Prison Break (no countries have been named after him, though)	Dominic	30%
A – Swedish golfer Sörenstam, or a friend of Pippi Longstocking	Annika	28%