AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #20

A – the eighth month in Latin, or first name of dictator Pinochet

B – constituted the world’s first known salary; for Homer Simpson it’s Duff

C – country whose name comes from the Iroquoian word for “village”

D – 2019 hit by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee, watched in YouTube more than 7 billion times

E – a tree of the genus Ulmus, or a street where you don’t want to live if you’re a teenager and Freddy Krueger is somewhere about

F – poker hand consisting of five cards of the same suit

G – first name of the main character in the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series

H – a thicket of bushes, or a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets

I – the largest city in Turkey

J – a moon of Saturn, or the two-faced god who presumably gave his name to a month

K – character from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” who was one of Entertainment Weekly’s “21 Most Annoying TV Characters Ever”, or John F. who had a catastrophic visit to Dallas

L – commonly known name for men's top professional football (soccer) division of the Spanish football league system

M – an important relative whom you might not meet until you’re about 30; anagram for “Woman Hitler”

N – a drug delivery device used to administer medication in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs

O – ___ of sight, ___ of mind

P – grunge band ___ Jam, or a glistening object produced within the soft tissue of a living shelled mollusc

Q – this city in Iran is the world’s largest city with a three-letter name

R – a long, narrow elevation on an ocean bottom, or son of Eric and Stephanie Forrester (or so we thought)

S – country with the world’s second-largest airport, King Fahd International Airport

T – to write a note, or what Eliot Ness did to Al Capone

U – what you must have in addition to password to log in

V – to look at, or what the room (eventually) had in the E. M. Forster book

W – damage to an item caused by use over time, or what Lady Gaga did to raw meat

X – Alfonso ___, King of Spain until the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931

Y – an Ivy League university in New Haven, Connecticut

Z – country where the city of Livingstone is an important tourist capital