| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| F – not Monday, but named after Freya | Friday | 95%
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| Q – this thing you’re doing now | Quiz | 91%
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| M – Richard, Karl or Groucho | Marx | 87%
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| G – country on the north-western side of El Salvador | Guatemala | 85%
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| B – edges of a river, or name of the family in Mary Poppins | Banks | 77%
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| V – a patient with severe brain damage, or a cucumber | Vegetable | 77%
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| U – H. C. Andersen’s tale where a young duck is bullied by the other farm animals | The Ugly Duckling | 74%
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| A – country where Alexander Van der Bellen is president since 2017 | Austria | 73%
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| T – African capital closest to Rome | Tunis | 72%
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| O – Sam Smith’s Spectre theme song “Writing’s __ ___ ____” | On the Wall | 67%
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| N – drama series set in Colombia; seasons 1 and 2 are based on the story of drug lord Pablo Escobar | Narcos | 64%
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| S – the player who calls the shots in curling, or what Ferris Bueller did to school | Skip | 64%
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| H – is “cap” in Romanian, or “tête” in French | Head | 62%
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| K – 2 to the 10th power, or 1024, bytes | Kilobyte | 62%
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| I – sci-fi martial arts TV series ____ The Badlands | Into | 55%
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| D – first name of author Tartt, or woman in Italian | Donna | 54%
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| J – English physician who created the smallpox vaccine and thus saved millions of people | Edward Jenner | 44%
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| Y – Australian (Scottish-born) brothers Malcolm and Angus who formed AC/DC in 1973 | Young | 42%
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| R – rough, riotous or just boisterous, or nickname of wrestler Ronda Rousey | Rowdy | 39%
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| W – southern part of Belgium | Wallonia | 39%
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| E – a complex mechanical device that converts energy into useful motion or physical effects | Engine | 38%
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| Z – supervillain and Superman’s enemy, General ___ | Zod | 35%
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| C – Wii video game Link’s ________ Training, known in Japan as Link’s Bowgun Training | Crossbow | 32%
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| L – the second largest river in Africa that drains to the Indian Ocean | Limpopo | 24%
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| X – is ...-- ..--- in Morse code, “trettiotvå” in Swedish, _____ in Roman numerals | XXXII | 24%
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| P – wrote an erotic novel and Commentaries, the only published autobiography by a reigning pope | Pius II | 19%
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