You will be given a trivia clue, and the category it belongs to. You should answer with the best answer that belongs in the category and is described by the clue. For simplicity, answers should be in all lower cased letters.

Q: Category: A CHRISTMAS CAROL 
Clue: "A partridge in a pear tree"

A: "the twelve days of christmas"
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Q: Category: MATH TERMS 
Clue: The term surd refers to irrational numbers like this number's square root, 1.7320508...

A: 3
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Q: Category: ACCENT ON COMEDY 
Clue: "What a Country" the U.S.A. is; it turned this "Commie" into a comic

A:
yakov smirnoff
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