Hint
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Answer
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A – country that had the world’s first female president (not following an election, though)
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Argentina
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B – not long-lasting, but letter in German
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Brief
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C – present-day country that was uninhabited until the 15th century, when the Portuguese colonized the islands, thus establishing the first European settlement in the tropics
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Cabo Verde
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D – video on-demand streaming service with dedicated content hubs for brands such as Pixar and Lucasfilm
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Disney+
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E – popular singer born in 2001 (“Bad Guy”, “No Time to Die”)
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Billie Eilish
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F – Things ____ _____, Chinua Achebe’s novel of great power that turns the world upside down
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Fall Apart
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G – ___ Rummy, where the players do not lay down their sets and runs until at the end
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Gin
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H – Duran Duran’s 1982 hit “______ Like the Wolf”
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Hungry
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I – one word to describe a social media user who can reach a relevant audience and create awareness; usually a celebrity
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Influencer
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J – jelly, or a difficult situation, like with Michael Jordan and space creatures
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Jam
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K – _____ Lumpur
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Kuala
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L – the genre of John Grisham and Scott Turow is _____ thriller
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Legal
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M – a device that converts sound waves into an electric current, or first name of pugilist Tyson
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Mike
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N – is “nooit” in Dutch, or “jamás” in Spanish
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Never
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O – hip hop duo with hits “Player's Ball”, “Ms Jackson” and “Hey Ya!”
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Outkast
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P – chemical element number 94, stolen by Doc Brown from Libyan terrorists
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Plutonium
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Q – punctuation mark missing from this sentence: I'll be back, he said.
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Quotation marks
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R – the largest city of the Arabian Peninsula
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Riyadh
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S – Mary who wrote Frankenstein in 1816 when the world was locked in a long, cold volcanic winter caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora
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Shelley
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T – the name of this country is a combination of the two states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, that joined together
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Tanzania
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U – do ____ others as you would have them do ____ you
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Unto
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V – the third largest city in Spain, or a type of orange
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Valencia
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W – TV game show that is called Qui veut gagner des millions? in France
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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X – Extremely Extra Extra Large
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XXXL
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Y – genus of perennial shrubs and trees with tough, sword-shaped leaves and typically white flowers (or “_____ palm”)
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Yucca
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Z – a line that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions
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Zigzag
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