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AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #30

The first answer starts with an A, and so on...
Full names are alphabetised according to surname, not considering a possible surname prefix.
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A – ocean where Savage Islands and Tristan da Cunha are located
The Atlantic
B – popular reality TV format, or the leader of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four
Big Brother
C – the first ethnically Greek pharaoh who bothered to learn the Egyptian language, along with about dozen other languages
Cleopatra
D – a senior official in charge of a university faculty, or James who died in a car crash in 1955
Dean
E – country whose capital is Asmara
Eritrea
F – deflated tire, or an apartment in the U.K.
Flat
G – ______ Shepherd, which is a relatively modern breed of dog despite its wolf-like appearance
German
H – Moriarty’s enemy with outstanding reasoning skills, who occasionally uses addictive drugs in the absence of stimulating cases
Sherlock Holmes
I – setting something apart from others (like an infected person); derived from a word meaning “island”
Isolation
J – a Van Halen hit, or what white men can’t do
Jump
K – first name of NBA star Durant, or the bird in Up who was actually female
Kevin
L – a discharge of electricity, or _________ McQueen in Disney-Pixar film Cars
Lightning
M – the sacrament of the Eucharist, or one of the fundamental properties of matter
Mass
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N – German philosopher Friedrich who declared God dead in 1882
Nietzsche
O – the only U.S. president who was born in Honolulu
Barack Obama
P – country that has 852 living languages, more than any other country
Papua New Guinea
Q – QR code means _____ Response code
Quick
R – city with name meaning "river of January" (although the river turned out to be a bay)
Rio de Janeiro
S – to exchange, or a video game console by Nintendo released in 2017
Switch
T – is “vertel” in Afrikaans, or William in Swiss folklore
Tell
U – Thomas More book, or the opposite of dystopia
Utopia
V – where you can find the world’s smallest standing army, the Swiss Guard
Vatican City
W – the world’s largest company by revenue since 2014
Walmart
X – a class of starfighter used by the Rebel Alliance in their conflict with the Galactic Empire in Star Wars
X-wing fighter
Y – supermini/subcompact car sold by Toyota since 1999
Yaris
Z – singer and guitarist Frank who received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1997
Zappa
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Level 65
Oct 18, 2021
i tried about a hundred different spellings of nietzsche, many which were very close to the correct (according to the QM) spelling. with a name as hard to spell as his, couldn't there be a little slack.
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Level 62
Oct 25, 2021
I usually take the type-ins that Jetpunk automatically gives, in this case it is ^NIETZS[CH]+E. I can add a few type-ins in addition to these.