Hint
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Answer
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A – poor woodcutter Baba who discovers a cave full of thieves’ treasures, or Muhammad who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee
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Ali
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B – largest city in the world located below sea level and the lowest-lying national capital
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Baku
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C – actor Gooding Jr., or the largest island in the Caribbean Sea
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Cuba
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D – title of the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
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Dalai Lama
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E – not centre, but the lead guitarist of U2
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Edge
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F – the world’s smallest known vertebrate animal is an 8-millimetre long ____
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Frog
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G – big or tall in French
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Grand
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H – name of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s artificial intelligence computer, which is literally one step ahead of IBM
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HAL
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I – dial +962 for Jordan, +963 for Syria, +964 for ________
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Iraq
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J – a motion-based dance video game published by Ubisoft
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Just Dance
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K – base unit of temperature, including the coldest possible zero degrees
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Kelvin
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L – Jack who wrote White Fang, or the city where there are always at least six ravens in the Tower of ______
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London
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M – Welsh captain Sir Henry who fought against the Spanish and gave name and face to a popular rum brand (Captain ______)
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Morgan
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N – to breast feed, or a person trained to provide care for the sick
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Nurse
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O – TV series starring Ricky Gervais or Steve Carell
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The Office
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P – is “ein Gebet” in German, or what Tommy and Gina are livin’ on
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a Prayer
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Q – to repeat someone’s exact words, to cite
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Quote
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R – American seismologist who created the earthquake magnitude scale
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Charles Richter
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S – the only writer in the world to be awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Academy Award for screenplay (Pygmalion)
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George Bernard Shaw
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T – to set fire, or a dating app
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Tinder
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U – villainous sea witch in Disney’s The Little Mermaid
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Ursula
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V – the smallest national capital (by area and population) in the EU
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Valletta
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W – the building complex you think of when you see the numbers 9/11
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World Trade Center
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X – song by Beyoncé from her self-titled fifth studio album, or very old brandy
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XO
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Y – nickname of baseball legend Lawrence Peter Berra
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Yogi
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Z – type of airship patented in Germany in 1895 (Hindenburg was an unlucky one)
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Zeppelin
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