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AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #88

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 – old in German, or ctrl+___+del
Alt
B – sport named after the estate of the Duke of Beaufort (who introduced the racket game at a lawn-party)
Badminton
C – slang for gonorrhea, or what you do with your hands after a performance
Clap
D – book whose original version starts: “Zondag, 14 juni 1942. Vridag 12 juni was ik al om 6 uur ...”
The Diary of Anne Frank
E – CEO is Chief ____ Officer
Executive
F – capital city of Kentucky
Frankfort
G – mother of Liza Minnelli; played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
Judy Garland
H – Etta James’s hit “Something's Got a ____ on Me”
Hold
I – American TV magic show Masters of ________
Illusion
J – tried to return his 30 pieces of silver, ended up throwing them away and committing suicide
Judas
K – precedes start, follows side
Kick
L – Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty ______ the People, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830
Leading
M – ____ Man (video game with treacherous Dr. Wily), or a prefix meaning “large” used in taxonomy
Mega
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N – island with the highest elevation
New Guinea
O – Wilbur Wright’s little brother, who died when Neil Armstrong was 17 years old
Orville
P – ____ Panther, an animated character or a diamond
Pink
Q – QPR is ______ ____ Rangers
Queens Park
R – vehicle propelled by a reaction gas engine, or a leaf vegetable (“rucola” in Italian)
Rocket
S – not club, but a shovel
Spade
T – 2020 spy film by Christopher Nolan where things can move forwards or backwards in time; the title is (fittingly) a palindrome
Tenet
U – Tupac Shakur’s album _____ the End of Time
Until
V – fictional country Val _____; the missing word is also in the name of a real country in Africa
Verde
W – in 1907, Finland became the first country to have _____ elected to Parliament
Women
X – American cable provider (before 2010 known as Comcast)
Xfinity
Y – country that came into existence after WWI in 1918 and dissolved in the early 90s
Yugoslavia
Z – first name of Malik who left One Direction in 2015
Zayn
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