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AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #87

The first answer starts with an A, and so on...
Source for the B question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals_by_population (quoted 18 Nov 2023)
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A – continent whose central regions were called by made-up word "Tartary" for hundreds of years
Asia
B – world's most populous national capital city (city proper)
Beijing
C – Roman statesman and master of Latin prose (De Re Publica) who, nevertheless, got his head chopped off
Cicero
D – the largest Croatian city located in a pene-exclave
Dubrovnik
E – between egg and fetus
Embryo
F – Six ____ Under, a TV series about a family who run a funeral home
Feet
G – Nuclear ______, an Internet meme and urban legend (about a famous bald guy) relating to the 1991 video game Civilization
Gandhi
H – Mata ____, Dutch exotic dancer who was executed as spy
Hari
I – Irishman in Norwegian, or intense anger in English
Ire
J – peninsula in Europe that has also been known as Cimbrian Peninsula, Ēota land, or den Jyske Halvø
Jutland
K – chicken in Dutch, the currency in Laos, or an untanned hide of a young beast
Kip
L – Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand _______ Under the Sea
Leagues
M – a time of life when crisis means a balding man buying a motorbike, or, in plural, a “dark” era
Middle age
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N – American multinational corporation named after the Greek goddess of victory
Nike
O – the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands
Oahu
P – space probe that landed on Mars in 2008, or NBA team _______ Suns
Phoenix
Q – the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca
Qibla
R – one match of ______ Bridge, or material that's used to make things like bouncy balls
Rubber
S – “_____ dreams are made of this; Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas”
Sweet
T – friend of Pumbaa and Simba
Timon
U – leave no stone ________
Unturned
V – oral examination, or “____ La Vida” by Coldplay
Viva
W – follows clock, precedes shop
Work
X – a professional American football league that started in 2020 and was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic after only five weeks of play
XFL
Y – "joo", ”sim”, “oui”
Yes
Z – Mexican revolutionary Emiliano, or shoe in Spanish
Zapata
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