Hint
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Answer
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A – a rod that passes through the centre of a wheel or group of wheels
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Axle
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B – between a Knight and a Queen, behind a Pawn
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Bishop
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C – country hosting the geographical midpoint of Africa
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Central African Republic
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D – French composer Claude ("Clair de lune")
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Debussy
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E – Avengers: _______; was the highest-grossing film of all time from July 2019 until March 2021
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Endgame
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F – Gustave who wrote Madame Bovary, a novel that became a bestseller because of a trial where the author was accused of insulting public morals
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Flaubert
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G – precedes night, follows feel
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Good
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H – brother of Dewey and Louie
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Huey
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I – good things that are used to pave the road to hell
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Intentions
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J – not Wozniak, but the other Steve whose Macintosh was the first mass-produced computer with a graphical user interface
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Jobs
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K – Mexican painter Frida who was disabled by polio as a child and chronically injured in a bus accident at 18
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Kahlo
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L – Richard Bach’s illustrated novella Jonathan __________ Seagull
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Livingston
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M – sassy friend of Joan in Girlfriends, or a Mesoamerican civilization
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Maya
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N – a mesh stretched to divide a court, or to receive as profit
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Net
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O – tree in the genus Quercus, whose fruit is a nut called an acorn or ___ nut
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Oak
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P – island nation where the largest islands are Luzon and Mindanao
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The Philippines
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Q – Latin for “oak tree” (and you know this)
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Quercus
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R – is “rojo” in Spanish, rum in The Shining, or Sox in Boston
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Red
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S – a huge thing that has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia crystals and a ring system with ice particles and rocky debris
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Saturn
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T – capital city whose name means “three cities”
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Tripoli
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U – a region of central Italy; the only landlocked region on the Apennine Peninsula
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Umbria
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V – team sport developed by William Morgan with hundreds of millions of active players
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Volleyball
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W – American actress Betty (1922–2021), or what some lies are
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White
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X – American rapper and TV presenter whose stage name is pronounced "exhibit"
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Xzibit
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Y – national park in California with granite cliffs, waterfalls, glaciers, etc.
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Yosemite
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Z – shingles, also known as herpes ______
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Zoster
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