AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #59

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A – capital of Turkmenistan, largely rebuilt since the 1948 earthquake	Ashgabat
B – one of Weezer’s first hits (named after an American singer who fatally chose an airplane over a tour bus in 1959)	Buddy Holly
C – island where British Overseas Territory Akrotiri and Dhekelia is located (never mind which continent)	Cyprus
D – to determine a disease; its anagram is San Diego	Diagnose
E – first name of Thompson whose roles include Elinor Dashwood, Nanny McPhee, and Professor Sybil Trelawney, or a Jane Austen book	Emma
F – what you can’t see for the trees	Forest
G – unit prefix denoting a factor of 1,000,000,000	Giga
H – a moon of Saturn, named after the mythical girl whom Paris seduced and carried off to Troy with dire consequences	Helene
I – significance, or to bring something in from a foreign country	Import
J – tennis legend Billie ____ King	Jean
K – another name for jack who is 11 and black or red	Knave
L – the Eiffel Tower’s French nickname "La dame de fer" means "Iron ____"	Lady
M – is “dinero” in Spanish, or the thing Jerry Maguire was supposed to show	Money

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N – country named after the third-longest river in Africa	Niger
O – first name of talk show host Winfrey	Oprah
P – not absent, not the past	Present
Q – acronym for a framework for building real-time embedded applications or for a McDonald’s hamburger	QP
R – Donald Duck writer and illustrator Don	Rosa
S – singing voice with the highest vocal range, or a TV mobster	Soprano
T – a square in Manhattan, or what, according to Bob Dylan, are a-changin’	Times
U – country where Salto is the 2nd largest city	Uruguay
V – author of Latin epic poem The Aeneid	Virgil
W – first name of Buffett, American investor and world's eighth-wealthiest person	Warren
X – a liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent; many markers are nowadays 100% ______ free	Xylene
Y – peninsula in south-eastern Mexico, including portions of Belize and Guatemala	Yucatán
Z – the last human city on Earth in The Matrix, or synonym for Jerusalem (Mount ____)	Zion

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