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Contestants Britter Gunderson and Meghan Ballback compete in the Ask Me Another final round at The Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.
Contestants Britter Gunderson and Meghan Ballback compete in the Ask Me Another final round at The Bell House in Brooklyn, New York. Mike Katzif / NPR

The NATO phonetic alphabet has many super-serious uses, but we primarily know it as those words you use when you're trying to spell your name over the phone. In this final round, each answer is one of those twenty-six words. Good luck, and may the best contestant W-as-in-Whiskey, I-as-in-India, N-as-in-November!

Heard on Lena Hall: From Yitzhak to Hedwig.

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