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Answer
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A – capital of Turkmenistan, largely rebuilt since the 1948 earthquake
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Ashgabat
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B – one of Weezer’s first hits (named after an American singer who fatally chose an airplane over a tour bus in 1959)
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Buddy Holly
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C – island where British Overseas Territory Akrotiri and Dhekelia is located (never mind which continent)
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Cyprus
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D – to determine a disease; its anagram is San Diego
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Diagnose
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E – first name of Thompson whose roles include Elinor Dashwood, Nanny McPhee, and Professor Sybil Trelawney, or a Jane Austen book
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Emma
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F – what you can’t see for the trees
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Forest
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G – unit prefix denoting a factor of 1,000,000,000
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Giga
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H – a moon of Saturn, named after the mythical girl whom Paris seduced and carried off to Troy with dire consequences
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Helene
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I – significance, or to bring something in from a foreign country
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Import
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J – tennis legend Billie ____ King
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Jean
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K – another name for jack who is 11 and black or red
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Knave
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L – the Eiffel Tower’s French nickname "La dame de fer" means "Iron ____"
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Lady
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M – is “dinero” in Spanish, or the thing Jerry Maguire was supposed to show
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Money
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Hint
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Answer
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N – country named after the third-longest river in Africa
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Niger
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O – first name of talk show host Winfrey
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Oprah
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P – not absent, not the past
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Present
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Q – acronym for a framework for building real-time embedded applications or for a McDonald’s hamburger
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QP
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R – Donald Duck writer and illustrator Don
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Rosa
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S – singing voice with the highest vocal range, or a TV mobster
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Soprano
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T – a square in Manhattan, or what, according to Bob Dylan, are a-changin’
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Times
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U – country where Salto is the 2nd largest city
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Uruguay
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V – author of Latin epic poem The Aeneid
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Virgil
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W – first name of Buffett, American investor and world's eighth-wealthiest person
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Warren
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X – a liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent; many markers are nowadays 100% ______ free
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Xylene
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Y – peninsula in south-eastern Mexico, including portions of Belize and Guatemala
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Yucatán
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Z – the last human city on Earth in The Matrix, or synonym for Jerusalem (Mount ____)
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Zion
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