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