Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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B – the capital of Iraq | Baghdad | 92%
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Q – a trembling or shaking; when occurring in the ground, preceded by “earth” | Quake | 91%
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W – open-collaborative online encyclopaedia that a modern quizmaker can hardly do without | Wikipedia | 88%
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A – native Mesoamericans who appreciated arts and were the first to make guacamole | Aztecs | 86%
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P – Oscar-winning Korean movie, or an organism living inside another organism, causing it harm | Parasite | 86%
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Z – city called Turicum by the Romans; now the largest city in Switzerland | Zürich | 85%
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D – doctor who is able to speak with animals | Dr. Dolittle | 80%
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J – first name of actor Andrews starring in “Mary Poppins” and “The Sound of Music” | Julie | 80%
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Y – fictional bear debuting in 1958 who thinks he’s smarter than the average bear | Yogi | 79%
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R – the thing that Earth does around the Sun, or what Che Guevara became a symbol of | Revolution | 78%
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K – metallic device that most of us still have in a pocket or handbag, often more than one | Key | 77%
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L – monk who married a nun and who wrote one fifth of all material printed in Germany between 1500 and 1530, causing the biggest revolution that Christianity has ever seen | Martin Luther | 73%
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S – One Republic hit “Counting _____”, or an NHL team from Dallas | Stars | 72%
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E – song by Survivor that starts, “Rising up, back on the street; did my time, took my chances” | Eye of the Tiger | 71%
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M – country whose name includes the opposite of young | Moldova | 69%
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O – Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic “___ _______ Years of Solitude” | One Hundred | 64%
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F – archipelago located about halfway between Norway and Iceland | Faroe Islands | 58%
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H – optical phenomenon produced by light interacting with atmospheric ice crystals, or a first-person shooter electronic game | Halo | 58%
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I – “_________ Morse”, a TV crime series based on the books by Colin Dexter | Inspector | 51%
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C – an agreement between two or more parties, or what Franklin Roosevelt did to polio in 1921 | Contract | 50%
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T – T in SWAT | Tactics | 45%
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V – leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as “Rigoletto” and “La traviata” | Giuseppe Verdi | 42%
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N – Jack who was nicknamed The Golden Bear and who was one of the greatest golfers of all time | Nicklaus | 42%
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U – ______ K. Le Guin, known for the Earthsea fantasy series | Ursula | 26%
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X – an engraving in wood; is “ksylografía” in Greek | Xylograph | 22%
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G – a book in the New Testament (one was written by the namesake of a Star Wars character and one by the namesake of his actor) | Gospel | 18%
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