AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #29

A – fear of spiders

B – colour of billiard (pool) ball number 2

C – a vehicle drawn by horses, or what Mr. Miyagi did to Karate Kid

D – the largest city outside Japan and China

E – secret agent Johnny, or language that has about one million words, but the average speaker only knows about 25,000

F – a bird, or 12-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis

G – Disko Island (Qeqertarsuaq) is the second largest island of _________

H – tropical cyclone in the Northern Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins, equivalent to typhoon

I – the family in Little House on the Prairie

J – first name of American singer Legend (“All of Me”)

K – one nautical mile per hour, or what Alexander allegedly opened with a sword

L – is “gelijk” in Dutch, or a thumbs-up sign in, well, almost everywhere

M – not April, but a U.K. Prime Minister

N – a grappling hold in wrestling, or someone who should have mixed feelings about Trafalgar

O – comedy film A Night at the _____ with the Marx Brothers

P – spent 24 years on the road (visiting China, etc.), got back home, joined a war, was imprisoned, and dictated his stories to a cellmate (who produced a bestseller)

Q – a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silicon-oxygen tetrahedra

R – belief in and worship of a supernatural controlling power, or what R.E.M. is losing

S – messaging app launched in 2011 where pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time

T – railway-themed board game “______ to Ride”

U – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s best-known novel _____ ___’s Cabin

V – country that was formed in 1976 when two former countries merged

W – a chain is only as strong as its _______ ____

X – Windows operating system released in 2001

Y – American television soap opera The _____ and the Restless

Z – a Soviet spy satellite, or a football (soccer) club from Saint Petersburg