Hint
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Answer
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A – Plato’s student who disagreed with Plato’s ideas on equality of men and women and was (unfortunately) the more influential philosopher of the two
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Aristotle
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B – a country on an island in the Persian Gulf
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Bahrain
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C – a type of spaniel, or Joe who sang “Up Where We Belong” with Jennifer Warnes
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Cocker
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D – baseball team from Michigan: _____ Tigers
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Detroit
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E – the current lingua franca of international business, science, aviation, etc.
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English
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F – (in the book) a second-year university student from Geneva who creates a live humanoid from dead tissues
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Victor Frankenstein
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G – serious and sombre, or the last place where most of us will go
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Grave
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H – Mad About You actor Helen, or something that the fox really, really does not look forward to
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Hunt
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I – Billy who'd do anything for his sweet sixteen
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Idol
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J – 2007 movie of a pregnant teenager, or Roman goddess married to Jupiter
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Juno
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K – inability to resist the urge to steal items
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Kleptomania
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L – U.S. city in a desert; name means “The Meadows”
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Las Vegas
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M – a word familiar to sports fans and pyromaniacs, or something mothers are constantly trying to find for their daughters if we believe Jane Austen
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Match
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N – in units, between micro and pico
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Nano
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O – “____Trail”, a series of educational computer games, referring to a U.S. state
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Oregon
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P – P in OPEC
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Petroleum
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Q – Marvel character who moves at superhuman speed, or a common name for mercury
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Quicksilver
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R – the young kangaroo in Winnie-the-Pooh
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Roo
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S – a weekly current affairs magazine published in Germany, or the rear part of a ship
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Stern
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T – to practice an ability, or Paula Hawkins novel “The Girl on the ___”
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Train
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U – general of the Union Army and U.S. president _____ S. Grant, or a variant of the name Odysseus
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Ulysses
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V – 2012 album by Grimes, based on the Latin word for "act of seeing”
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Visions
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W – witch or warlock, like Merlin
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Wizard
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X – one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe
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Xhosa
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Y – the time it takes Tellus to complete one revolution of the Sun
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Year
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Z – Robert who directed “Back to the Future” and “Forrest Gump”
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Zemeckis
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