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AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #38

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 – poor woodcutter Baba who discovers a cave full of thieves’ treasures, or Muhammad who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee
Ali
B – largest city in the world located below sea level and the lowest-lying national capital
Baku
C – actor Gooding Jr., or the largest island in the Caribbean Sea
Cuba
D – title of the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
Dalai Lama
E – not centre, but the lead guitarist of U2
Edge
F – the world’s smallest known vertebrate animal is an 8-millimetre long ____
Frog
G – big or tall in French
Grand
H – name of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s artificial intelligence computer, which is literally one step ahead of IBM
HAL
I – dial +962 for Jordan, +963 for Syria, +964 for ________
Iraq
J – a motion-based dance video game published by Ubisoft
Just Dance
K – base unit of temperature, including the coldest possible zero degrees
Kelvin
L – Jack who wrote White Fang, or the city where there are always at least six ravens in the Tower of ______
London
M – Welsh captain Sir Henry who fought against the Spanish and gave name and face to a popular rum brand (Captain ______)
Morgan
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N – to breast feed, or a person trained to provide care for the sick
Nurse
O – TV series starring Ricky Gervais or Steve Carell
The Office
P – is “ein Gebet” in German, or what Tommy and Gina are livin’ on
a Prayer
Q – to repeat someone’s exact words, to cite
Quote
R – American seismologist who created the earthquake magnitude scale
Charles Richter
S – the only writer in the world to be awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Academy Award for screenplay (Pygmalion)
George Bernard Shaw
T – to set fire, or a dating app
Tinder
U – villainous sea witch in Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Ursula
V – the smallest national capital (by area and population) in the EU
Valletta
W – the building complex you think of when you see the numbers 9/11
World Trade Center
X – song by Beyoncé from her self-titled fifth studio album, or very old brandy
XO
Y – nickname of baseball legend Lawrence Peter Berra
Yogi
Z – type of airship patented in Germany in 1895 (Hindenburg was an unlucky one)
Zeppelin
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