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  1. 4. Award winning movie from 2014; My favourite film from 2014, considering I too have a bad-tempered bald percussion teacher
  2. 6. Apartment entrance structure I painted for the elderly in ninth grade; The process tiresome but the hard part was maintaining conversation - their hearing was not very good
  3. 7. French duo I currently wish would release a new album considering they have not done so since award winning album Random Access Memories released in 2013
  4. 10. Stir-fry meal I learned to cook in Chiang Rai, Thailand; My stomach was not well after likely due to cooking in close proximity to dishwasher detergent
  5. 12. Spent an afternoon of my holiday cycling around this Asian city in 2018, got lost and no one spoke English; Still the most exciting highlight of the trip
  6. 15. Type of Chinese food sold at a restaurant I’ve regularly gone to since eighth grade; I've easily eaten there 500 times, and my mother is convinced they purposefully mix in addictive drugs into the soup
  7. 17. Video game that offers arbitrage of hats; I spent hundreds of hours finding buyers and offering deals, turning a profit of 100% from the 1000 USD I’ve spent
  8. 20. European city that I have performed in during my school Orchestra’s 2019 Performance tour; Despite the title of a comedy drama directed by Wes Anderson, the hotel I stayed in was not grand
  9. 21. Percussion instrument dropped on stage at the final beat of Ride of the Valkyries during my Performance Tour; Vikings used metal weapons right?
  10. 22. Type of oscillation I've had to explain to six different groups of people for the past three years; It's often preceded with the word simple so how it shouldn't be that difficult to understand
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  1. 1. Scottish philosopher taught in the reasoning classes of TOK; I made this philosopher into a meme that my teacher seemed to enjoy, despite his old age
  2. 2. Ceramic piece inspired by restaurant in ; Family complained that it doesn't count as one if it couldn't pour tea
  3. 3. Favourite literature read for school and analysed in my eleventh grade oral assignment; French man with an acute sense of smell murders women and then himself, would recommend
  4. 5. Almost died to this when I was born; Would’ve been a breathtaking way to die
  5. 8. Appropriate city for my performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
  6. 9. Word puzzle I recently got into; May or may not have inspired me to create this
  7. 11. For my extended essay, I confirmed that the currency in this video game is more stable than Venezuela's; Compiling data for the price basket was not a fun experience
  8. 13. Solid often added to beverages; I cannot understand why people would pay more to dilute their drink
  9. 14. Most inconsiderate animal known to man; Robbed us of our lunch and dinner during a camping trip to Sai Kung, Hong Kong, in sixth grade
  10. 15. Astrology, fortune telling etc. My mother has a very bad case of this, basing stock purchase decisions on a cheap toy I bought in Florida
  11. 16. For project week in fifth grade, a bridge making contest was held between me and my friends using sticks and rubber bands; theirs crumbled and learnt that this type of bridge was the best
  12. 18. Male given name derived from Latin, sometimes shortened to a five-letter name that ends with -ry; Common theme for all the clues
  13. 19. Chinese Painting pigment; While many recommend painting a layer of this pigment to prevent ink from spreading, I’ve always hated using it for disallowing water colour to behave naturally
  14. 23. City famous for gambling; I have fond memories of going deaf for three days after swimming at one of the beaches in 2019
  15. 24. Wooden percussion instrument my friend and I had to carry up two flights of stairs during band camp in ninth grade