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AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #91

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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Last updated: January 19, 2024
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A – U.S. state mentioned in John Green‘s novel Looking for ______
Alaska
B – _____ list is (originally) a list of activities to do before dying, referring to the idiom “kick the _____”
Bucket
C – in 1991, Simferopol became the capital of the Autonomous Republic of ______, or ______n Peninsula
Crimea
D – a VoIP and instant messaging social platform with a game controller-shaped logo
Discord
E – Australian former professional racing cyclist Cadel, or actor Chris (Captain America)
Evans
F – Radiohead’s 1995 hit “Street Spirit (____ Out)”
Fade
G – architect who died after being hit by a tram and whose masterpiece La Sagrada Família is to be completed 100 years later – or not
Antoni Gaudí
H – not Starsky, but a cage in which rabbits are kept
Hutch
I – East ______, a broad term used nowadays to refer to the Malay Archipelago
Indies
J – precedes walking, follows blue
Jay
K – the oldest operating airline in the world
KLM
L – “father of liberalism” John who was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness
Locke
M – besides Guatemala, the only country in the world that has a firearm on their flag
Mozambique
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N – ethnic group who, on 27 Sep, 1066, set sail from the mouth of the River Somme towards England
Normans
O – “But I won't cry for yesterday, there's an ________ world, somehow I have to find”
Ordinary
P – language where you’d count “jeden, dwa, trzy, cztery, ...”
Polish
Q – four successive cards of the same suit, or two pints
Quart
R – the capital of Dominica
Roseau
S – Norwegian phrase “Snakker du engelsk?” means “Do you _____ _______?”
Speak English
T – Doreen Cronin’s children’s book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That ____
Type
U – a small four-stringed guitar
Ukulele
V – region in Italy whose capital is Venice
Veneto
W – Disney film where a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey
WALL-E
X – creature in Alien, or a mineral also known as allotriomorph
Xenomorph
Y – Chinese base unit of currency
Yuan
Z – nickname of the Botswana national football team, named after African equines
The Zebras
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