AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #24

A – pulled a sword out of a stone and became King

B – not timid, not italics

C – an insect in the order Orthoptera, or a game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven

D – capital city whose name includes an extinct flightless bird

E – is “Irrtum” in German, or “bug” in the computer world

F – fantasy novel series A Song of Ice And ___; the first book is A Game of Thrones

G – country where wine was first produced

H – city served by George Bush Intercontinental Airport

I – fully protective resistance against infection

J – word that appears in the real names of Snoop Dogg, Sammy Davis and the Iron Man actor

K – first name of the boy who ruined the burglars’ day in Home Alone

L – a social networking service; its logo has white letters “in” on a blue background

M – Nelson who was 27 years in prison and 5 years a president

N – something often followed by “pad”, or a symbol denoting a musical sound

O – world's largest annual beer festival, which starts in September

P – currency of Botswana, or a city in Croatia

Q – playing card that is “dame de piques” in French

R – to store sound or video in a permanent medium, or what many athletes dream about and sometimes set

S – if you journeyed from Niamey to Algiers, you’d cross this area

T – a fee paid for some privilege, or what the bell does in the title of a Hemingway novel

U – line on the Berlin U-Bahn, or an Irish band

V – a traveller, or name of two space probes that were launched in 1977 and are still active

W – ____ Side Story, 1961 movie that won 10 Oscars

X – brand name of smartphones and tablets from Sony; the name is derived from the word “experience”

Y – Babe Ruth’s New York team

Z – a motor scooter by Yamaha, or the aquatic rescue pup in PAW Patrol