Hint
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Answer
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A – a jump in figure skating, or Beverly Hills Cop Foley
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Axel
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B – country with the world’s 8th largest population but smaller in area than any other in top 25
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Bangladesh
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C – to cut, or a short segment of electronic media
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Clip
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D – the best-selling Canadian singer ("My Heart Will Go On")
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Celine Dion
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E – comes every day, as “Abend” in Germany
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Evening
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F – English self-taught scientist Michael who invented the _______ cage, an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields
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Faraday
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G – first name of Simenon, author of the detective Maigret books
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Georges
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H – the 17th- to 19th-century name for the continent of Australia was New ______
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Holland
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I – in poker, to just call a small bet before the flop is to limp __
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In
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J – J country closest to Europe
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Jordan
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K – Brazilian former soccer player, was voted the 2007 IFFHS World's Best Playmaker when at AC Milan
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Kaká
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L – film director Sidney (12 Angry Men, Serpico); the name is plural of snow in Finnish
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Lumet
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M – a computer-animated media franchise owned by DreamWorks Animation, or a country
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Madagascar
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N – surrounded by Triton, Proteus, and at least 12 others
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Neptune
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O – a major Czech city located at the confluences of rivers Oder, Opava, Ostravice and Lučina
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Ostrava
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P – what you shouldn’t cast before swine
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Pearls
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Q – a section or area (e.g. of a town), or 25%
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Quarter
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R – device that converts certain electromagnetic waves to sound, or Queen hit “_____ Ga Ga”
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Radio
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S – 3-time Oscar winner Meryl
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Streep
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T – American sitcom whose last episode, aired in 2015, had Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christian Slater as guest stars (but no Charlie Sheen)
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Two and a Half Men
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U – the address of a webpage or other Internet resource
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URL
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V – ____ del Mar, Chile’s fourth largest city; the name means “Vineyard of the Sea”
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Viña
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W – to serve customers in a restaurant, or what is being done for Godot in a Samuel Beckett play
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Wait
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X – __________ of Colophon, one of the most important Pre-Socratic philosophers (Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος)
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Xenophanes
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Y – “first” name of Tu, the 2015 winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine (the name has a personal pronoun repeated)
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Youyou
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Z – Émile who wrote Nana and J'Accuse…!
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Zola
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