Hint
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Answer
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A – Christina who sang "Genie in a Bottle" and “Hurt”
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Aguilera
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B – Australian Open 2022 champion Ashleigh, or first name of Ministry of Magic official Crouch
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Barty
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C – country you’re in when your intercontinental trip north is cut short by Darién Gap
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Colombia
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D – to abandon, or a barren area of land
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Desert
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E – cipher device used by Nazi Germany during World War II, until Alan Turing cracked the code
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Enigma
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F – country whose sixth-largest city is Nantes
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France
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G – a large mythical human like Kalevipoeg, or James Dean’s last film
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Giant
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H – common to Monopoly, Transylvania and Ritz
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Hotel
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I – spitz-type dog breed _________ Sheepdog; its native name is Íslenskur fjárhundur
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Icelandic
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J – noun that appears in the titles of two Star Wars movies
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Jedi
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K – to maintain possession of, or the main tower of a castle or fortress
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Keep
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L – “That’s me in the corner; That’s me in the spot-light, ______ __ ________”
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Losing My Religion
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M – the world’s most densely populated city
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Manila
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N – first name of USSR gymnastics Olympic winner Andrianov or Russian author Gogol
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Nikolai
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O – U.S. state that changed its capital in 1910 (because the previous capital Guthrie was so small)
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Oklahoma
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P – to go on stubbornly, or what memory does in Dali’s clock painting
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Persist
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Q – Angela Merkel has a doctorate in _______ chemistry
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Quantum
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R – island in the Indian Ocean previously known as Île Bourbon; its capital is Saint-Denis
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Réunion
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S – is “Halt!” in German, or red in traffic lights
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Stop
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T – V, ER, 24 and The 100
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TV series
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U – to remove someone from your social media connections
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Unfriend
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V – two space probes that landed on Mars in 1976, or a big, hairy dude like Ragnar Lothbrok
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Viking
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W – Sara Gruen's novel with Spanish title Agua para elefantes
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Water for Elephants
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X – Subaru model known as Crosstrek in North America
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XV
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Y – winter festival celebrated by the Germanic peoples
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Yule
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Z – to adjust a camera to make a person or thing being photographed appear larger or smaller
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Zoom
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