AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #19

A – native Mesoamericans who appreciated arts and were the first to make guacamole

B – the capital of Iraq

C – an agreement between two or more parties, or what Franklin Roosevelt did to polio in 1921

D – doctor who is able to speak with animals

E – song by Survivor that starts, “Rising up, back on the street; did my time, took my chances”

F – archipelago located about halfway between Norway and Iceland

G – a book in the New Testament (one was written by the namesake of a Star Wars character and one by the namesake of his actor)

H – optical phenomenon produced by light interacting with atmospheric ice crystals, or a first-person shooter electronic game

I – “_________ Morse”, a TV crime series based on the books by Colin Dexter

J – first name of actor Andrews starring in “Mary Poppins” and “The Sound of Music”

K – metallic device that most of us still have in a pocket or handbag, often more than one

L – monk who married a nun and who wrote one fifth of all material printed in Germany between 1500 and 1530, causing the biggest revolution that Christianity has ever seen

M – country whose name includes the opposite of young

N – Jack who was nicknamed The Golden Bear and who was one of the greatest golfers of all time

O – Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic “___ _______ Years of Solitude”

P – Oscar-winning Korean movie, or an organism living inside another organism, causing it harm

Q – a trembling or shaking; when occurring in the ground, preceded by “earth”

R – the thing that Earth does around the Sun, or what Che Guevara became a symbol of

S – One Republic hit “Counting _____”, or an NHL team from Dallas

T – T in SWAT

U – ______ K. Le Guin, known for the Earthsea fantasy series

V – leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as “Rigoletto” and “La traviata”

W – open-collaborative online encyclopaedia that a modern quizmaker can hardly do without

X – an engraving in wood; is “ksylografía” in Greek

Y – fictional bear debuting in 1958 who thinks he’s smarter than the average bear

Z – city called Turicum by the Romans; now the largest city in Switzerland