AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #89

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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Hint	Answer
A – largest city in the time zone UTC/GMT –9 hours	Anchorage
B – former American football player, sports analyst and actor Jim, or 4-point ball in snooker	Brown
C – Sia's hit from 2014 that would be “Kronleuchter” in German	Chandelier
D – country in Africa that has the same name for country and capital city	Djibouti
E – the most central part of the mind (I or me in Latin)	Ego
F – follows trust, precedes raise	Fund
G – CDG is for Charles de ______	Gaulle
H – Bellingcat founder Eliot, Jack who wrote The Eagle Has Landed, or author Mary _______ Clark	Higgins
I – is “senkulpa” in Esperanto, or 13 Popes in history	Innocent
J – first name of Dutch chronobiology scientist Meijer, or author Spyri (1881 novel Heidi)	Johanna
K – capital city 800 km (500 mi) east of Taj Mahal	Kathmandu
L – statesman and abolitionist who was born on the same day in 1809 as Charles Darwin	Abraham Lincoln
M – not Mayer or Goldwyn, but the Paris underground	Metro

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N – was suspected of instigating the Great Fire of Rome to clear land for his planned “Golden House”	Nero
O – olives in Swedish, or singer Tree (“Miss You”, “Alien Boy”)	Oliver
P – something thin and sharp, or (as an acronym) what most of us have had to memorize	Pin
Q – actor Dennis (The Parent Trap, Vantage Point)	Quaid
R – a type of motor racing event, or what the stocks can do after a decline in prices	Rally
S – Neptune’s moon named after one of the Nereids, or Portuguese word for “Saint” without the tilde	Sao
T – Grand _____ Auto, game where you can drive and shoot in Liberty City	Theft
U – a superhero; the first tokusatsu hero launched by Tsuburaya Productions	Ultraman
V – capital of Castile and León in Spain	Valladolid
W – region that united with Moldavia in 1859 to form the United Principalities, which later adopted the name Romania	Wallachia
X – a person who has a love of foreign people and culture	Xenophile
Y – an exclamation of disgust	Yuck
Z – the letter Z, when not “zee”	Zed

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