Question

This is the name of the title city in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, as well as the final boss of the Future Redeemed expansion of Xenoblade Chronicles (-5[1])3. This is the first word in the name of a Canadian superhero team sent to capture (15[1])Wolverine (15[2])whose members include twins Aurora and Northstar. (15[1]-5[1])After killing a Mimic of this type, Tom Cruise’s character gains the ability to reset the (*) day (10[1])every time he dies in Edge of Tomorrow. In the Star Trek franchise, the quadrant containing Earth is known by this word. (10[1])This letter partly names a program which beat Lee Sedol 4 games to 1 in a 2016 Go match and was developed by DeepMind. For 10 points, the term “iPad kids” refers to members of the (10[1])most recent generation, which is named for what Greek letter? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: alpha [accept Alpha Flight; accept Alpha Mimic; accept Alpha Quadrant; accept Gen(eration) Alpha; reject “AlphaGo Zero”; reject “AlphaZero”]
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