AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #18

A – English rock band ___ Monkeys, or the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans

B – country where the largest city is Santa Cruz de la Sierra

C – a desirable partner, or what Ahab tried to do to Moby Dick

D – smaller of the two moons of Mars

E – Ole ____ Bjørndalen, who has 13 Olympic medals in biathlon

F – honest, candid, or Anne who wrote about her tragic life while hiding behind a bookcase in Amsterdam

G – represents a challenge to a duel, or what Elsa had to wear in “Frozen” so as not to make everything, well, frozen

H – word you can see on the southern slope of Mount Lee in L.A.

I – social networking service whose name can be used to indicate that something is visually appealing (“_______mable”)

J – brand of American automobile; originally a four-wheel drive developed for the U.S. Army

K – American singer born in 1998 whose hits include “Young Dumb & Broke,” “Talk” and “Better”

L – the thing that can't change its spots

M – a Shakespeare tragedy, or fictional Highlands village constable Hamish

N – the name of this country’s capital means “windy corner”

O – meaning of Polish word “okupacja”

P – Alice Cooper’s hit from 1989, or Socrates’s last beverage

Q – “The ____ Man”, a 1952 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by John Ford

R – if you took a taxi from the Bolshoi Theatre to Kremlin, you’d probably use this currency

S – sport where Jahangir Khan is a legend, or to beat or press into pulp

T – first name of Zac Efron’s character in High School Musical, or a place you can get in with a wooden horse

U – Frank who rises to president of the United States through treachery, deception and murder in “House of Cards”

V – a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart

W – World of _______, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the world of Azeroth

X – Greek letter with symbols Ξ, ξ

Y – a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process

Z – belt-like region of the celestial sphere which, in Western astrology, is divided into twelve signs, such as Aries and Virgo