Hint
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Answer
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A – Swedish golfer Sörenstam, or a friend of Pippi Longstocking
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Annika
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B – gate at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße in Berlin, dating from 1791
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Brandenburg Gate
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C – pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry
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Marie Curie
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D – first name of Purcell who played Lincoln Burrows in Prison Break (no countries have been named after him, though)
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Dominic
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E – bird that catches the worm
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Early
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F – Henry who wrote “Tom Jones”, or Helen who wrote about another Jones and her diary
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Fielding
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G – the capital of Sierra Leone is Freetown, but this other African country has a capital with a name that means “free town”
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Gabon (Libreville)
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H – is “hören” in German, or what Marvin Gaye did through the grapevine
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Hear
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I – the second largest peninsula of the world
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Indian Peninsula
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J – country that has more pets than children
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Japan
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K – first name of NBA star Bryant who died in 2020, or a city in the
country mentioned on the previous row
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Kobe
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L – not first, but what a shoemaker might use
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Last
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M – Disney’s Ariel was “The Little _____”
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Mermaid
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N – to hit a target, or a thin, horny plate at the ends of your bodily extremities
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Nail
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O – “______’s Eleven”, movie about friends who plan to steal $160 million from a casino
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Ocean
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P – fictional Belgian who used his little grey cells famously in England
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Hercule Poirot
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Q – to lose heart or courage, or a small game bird
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Quail
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R – alternative band My Chemical _____, or a language such as French or Italian
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Romance
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S – a grammatically complete series of words, or a punishment
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Sentence
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T – when the world was divided in 1883, most European countries got one, Canada got six, Russia got eleven and China only wanted one of this
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Time zone
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U – “Bourne ______”, Matt Damon’s third Jason Bourne movie; the name means “the last one” or “a final statement” in Latin
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Ultimatum
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V – the nearest place where a day is longer than a year
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Venus
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W – messaging and voice-over-IP service bought by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion
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WhatsApp
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X – superhero team who appeared in comic books created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; later a superhero film series
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X-Men
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Y – playing Twister, the referee may call out “Left hand, _____”
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Yellow
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Z – the point in the sky directly overhead (the opposite of nadir)
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Zenith
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