Hint
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Answer
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A – H. Rider Haggard‘s 1887 best-seller She: A History of _________ about a journey to Africa
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Adventure
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B – follows bell or belly
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Button
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C – actor Tim (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Annie)
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Curry
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D – the angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, or a quick swim
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Dip
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E – “Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien; I'm an _________ in New York”
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Englishman
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F – not Homer Simpson, but a region in Belgium
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Flanders
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G – City of ___, 2002 movie that depicts the growth of organized crime in the suburbs of Rio (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus)
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God
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H – Cecilia Payne was the first the realize that stars are mostly made of this element (and helium)
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Hydrogen
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I – first name of German philosopher Kant who is best known for his work in ethics and metaphysics
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Immanuel
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J – capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa
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Johannesburg
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K – grounding of the ball on the opponent’s court in volleyball, or what Michael E. Brown did to Pluto
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Kill
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L – a solitaire, a marble game, a board game, or a maze
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Labyrinth
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M – first name of NHL star Lemieux, or brother of Nintendo’s Luigi
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Mario
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N – capital of Tonga, which was inundated by a tsunami in 2022
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Nukuʻalofa
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O – Richard who created quiz show Pointless and wrote The Thursday Murder Club
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Osman
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P – acronym meaning a bobby, a computer, or sensitive to all ethnicities, etc.
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PC
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Q – punctuation mark that is “küsimärk” in Estonian
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Question mark
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R – to oxidize iron, or first name used by Cohle in True Detective
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Rust
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S – winter sport in which a person rides a sled face down and head-first, or a bodily system of originally about 300 parts and later 206 parts
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Skeleton
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T – the three literature genres created by Aristotle were the epic, comedy and _______
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Tragedy
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U – most of the western half of this U.S. state lies in the Great Basin
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Utah
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V – British multinational telecommunications company whose name comes from words that reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones
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Vodafone
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W – the Stone Roses’ hit “I _____ __ Adored”
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Wanna Be
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X – concert residency by Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas which ended prematurely due to Covid-19
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The Xperience
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Y – round tent used as a dwelling by nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia
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Yurt
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Z – title of Disney film Zootopia in Europe (referring to animals’ metropolis)
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Zootropolis
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