Statistics for AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #12

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
B – can mean either success or failure, or what Japan did to Pearl Harbor	Bomb	96%
E – Amelia whose plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 and whose name begins with the organ of hearing	Earhart	92%
G – Zingiber officinale, an Asian herb used as a spice, or Geri Halliwell’s Spice Girls name	Ginger	92%
H – Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Kicked the ______' Nest”, referring to large wasps	Hornets	87%
S – an answer to a problem, or a mixture formed by dissolving one or more substances	Solution	87%
Z – “The Legend of ____”: high fantasy video game that centres on the various incarnations of Link	Zelda	86%
F – compact car Ford ____, or, in optics, a point at which reflected rays of light converge	Focus	85%
R – first name of “Mr Bean” actor Atkinson	Rowan	85%
V – a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease	Vaccine	85%
Y – little greenish man saying, “Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you”	Yoda	85%
M – to look after, or something a mentalist may try to read	Mind	83%
U – Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars hit “____ Funk”, or a neighbourhood or region in a city	Uptown	82%
X – Jinping who is President of China since 2013	Xi	81%
J – orphan boy who enters a magical giant peach in Roald Dahl’s novel	James	80%
N – first name of an average-height person born in Corsica in 1769, who came to spend some time on various other islands as well	Napoleon	78%
W – first name of ice hockey legend Gretzky, or "teenage Dirty Harry with a heart of gold"	Wayne	78%
O – “Prince of Darkness” who was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979	Ozzy Osbourne	77%
P – if you wanted to travel from London to Oxford, you might use this train station; a bear from Peru has been named after it	Paddington	77%
K – the only country in Europe starting with K (has a statue of Bill Clinton in its capital)	Kosovo	76%
T – _____-Leste, country whose name means East-East	Timor	73%
I – the space where interactions between humans and machines occur (user _______)	Interface	70%
A – the most successful football (soccer) club from the Netherlands, or Greek mythological hero Αἴας	Ajax	68%
D – L.A., Christmas eve, skyscraper, Hans Gruber vs. barefoot John McClane	Die Hard	64%
C – the largest city in Sri Lanka	Colombo	55%
Q – Robert Redford’s film about a scandal where a game show contestant was given the answers to the questions before the show	Quiz Show	29%
L – played Dr. Dick Solomon in “3rd Rock from the Sun” and Winston Churchill in “The Crown”	John Lithgow	26%