Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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B – between a Knight and a Queen, behind a Pawn | Bishop | 91%
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R – is “rojo” in Spanish, rum in The Shining, or Sox in Boston | Red | 90%
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G – precedes night, follows feel | Good | 86%
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N – a mesh stretched to divide a court, or to receive as profit | Net | 85%
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J – not Wozniak, but the other Steve whose Macintosh was the first mass-produced computer with a graphical user interface | Jobs | 84%
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W – American actress Betty (1922–2021), or what some lies are | White | 83%
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A – a rod that passes through the centre of a wheel or group of wheels | Axle | 80%
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E – Avengers: _______; was the highest-grossing film of all time from July 2019 until March 2021 | Endgame | 78%
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O – tree in the genus Quercus, whose fruit is a nut called an acorn or ___ nut | Oak | 78%
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Y – national park in California with granite cliffs, waterfalls, glaciers, etc. | Yosemite | 77%
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K – Mexican painter Frida who was disabled by polio as a child and chronically injured in a bus accident at 18 | Kahlo | 70%
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P – island nation where the largest islands are Luzon and Mindanao | The Philippines | 70%
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H – brother of Dewey and Louie | Huey | 67%
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I – good things that are used to pave the road to hell | Intentions | 67%
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V – team sport developed by William Morgan with hundreds of millions of active players | Volleyball | 66%
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M – sassy friend of Joan in Girlfriends, or a Mesoamerican civilization | Maya | 65%
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S – a huge thing that has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia crystals and a ring system with ice particles and rocky debris | Saturn | 65%
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C – country hosting the geographical midpoint of Africa | Central African Republic | 63%
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T – capital city whose name means “three cities” | Tripoli | 58%
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D – French composer Claude ("Clair de lune") | Debussy | 55%
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U – a region of central Italy; the only landlocked region on the Apennine Peninsula | Umbria | 48%
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Q – Latin for “oak tree” (and you know this) | Quercus | 38%
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L – Richard Bach’s illustrated novella Jonathan __________ Seagull | Livingston | 36%
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F – Gustave who wrote Madame Bovary, a novel that became a bestseller because of a trial where the author was accused of insulting public morals | Flaubert | 33%
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X – American rapper and TV presenter whose stage name is pronounced "exhibit" | Xzibit | 26%
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Z – shingles, also known as herpes ______ | Zoster | 20%
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