Hint
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Answer
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A – old in German, or ctrl+___+del
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Alt
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B – sport named after the estate of the Duke of Beaufort (who introduced the racket game at a lawn-party)
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Badminton
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C – slang for gonorrhea, or what you do with your hands after a performance
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Clap
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D – book whose original version starts: “Zondag, 14 juni 1942. Vridag 12 juni was ik al om 6 uur ...”
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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E – CEO is Chief ____ Officer
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Executive
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F – capital city of Kentucky
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Frankfort
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G – mother of Liza Minnelli; played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
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Judy Garland
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H – Etta James’s hit “Something's Got a ____ on Me”
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Hold
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I – American TV magic show Masters of ________
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Illusion
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J – tried to return his 30 pieces of silver, ended up throwing them away and committing suicide
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Judas
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K – precedes start, follows side
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Kick
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L – Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty ______ the People, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830
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Leading
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M – ____ Man (video game with treacherous Dr. Wily), or a prefix meaning “large” used in taxonomy
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Mega
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N – island with the highest elevation
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New Guinea
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O – Wilbur Wright’s little brother, who died when Neil Armstrong was 17 years old
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Orville
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P – ____ Panther, an animated character or a diamond
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Pink
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Q – QPR is ______ ____ Rangers
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Queens Park
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R – vehicle propelled by a reaction gas engine, or a leaf vegetable (“rucola” in Italian)
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Rocket
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S – not club, but a shovel
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Spade
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T – 2020 spy film by Christopher Nolan where things can move forwards or backwards in time; the title is (fittingly) a palindrome
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Tenet
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U – Tupac Shakur’s album _____ the End of Time
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Until
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V – fictional country Val _____; the missing word is also in the name of a real country in Africa
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Verde
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W – in 1907, Finland became the first country to have _____ elected to Parliament
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Women
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X – American cable provider (before 2010 known as Comcast)
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Xfinity
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Y – country that came into existence after WWI in 1918 and dissolved in the early 90s
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Yugoslavia
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Z – first name of Malik who left One Direction in 2015
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Zayn
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