Hint
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Answer
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A – a general term for a minor planet of the inner Solar System
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Asteroid
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B – David, the first English soccer player to win league titles in four countries
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Beckham
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C – a storage closet, or a council of high-ranking members of government
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Cabinet
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D – meaning of “Dolci” on a menu of an Italian restaurant
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Dessert
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E – Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table of the ________
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Elements
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F – father and daughter actors Henry and Jane
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Fonda
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G – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great ______ about the Jazz Age of the 1920s
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Gatsby
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H – a city in the Caribbean, or a hit by Camila Cabello
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Havana
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I – what you used to listen to music in 2008 if Apple’s your thing
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iPod
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J – ____ Kids, a memoir by Patti Smith
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Just
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K – the only republic remaining in the Soviet Union in December 1991 before it ceased to exist
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Kazakhstan
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L – a ride, or what a rising tide does to all boats
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Lift
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M – if you drive north from Bamako, you end up in this country
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Mauritania
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N – TV show inspired by Luc Besson's thriller La Femme ______, or first name of USSR leader Khrushchev
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Nikita
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O – shape of an office that features a fireplace and three south-facing windows behind the president’s desk
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Oval
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P – country that has the world’s largest contiguous irrigation system
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Pakistan
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Q – arcade game where the objective is to change every cube in a pyramid to a target colour by making _*____ hop on top of the cube
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Q*bert
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R – Harvey Comics character or TV series ______ Rich
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Richie
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S – word that was first used in 2002 and now covers a significant portion of all photographs in social media
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Selfie
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T – the most famous person with first names John Ronald Reuel
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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U – may contain either coffee or a dead person
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Urn
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V – a carrion-eating bird, or a person who profits from the suffering of others
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Vulture
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W – Barbra Streisand’s biggest hit “_____ in Love”
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Woman
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X – city in Greece famous for its annual spring carnival
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Xanthi
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Y – Alfonso Cuarón’s film _ __ mamá también (And Your Mom Too)
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Y tu
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Z – unit prefix meaning a factor of 10 to the power of negative twenty-one; “септо” in Bulgarian
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Zepto
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