AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #3

A – Macedonian king who conquered the Persian Empire and was accidentally buried alive

B – Jamaican former sprinter, first name Usain

C – to put an end to, or bunny-boiling Glenn

D – country where Castello cheese and ECCO shoes come from

E – middle name of the voice of Darth Vader, or a rank of nobility in Britain

F – without these we wouldn’t have a clue that something like dinosaurs ever existed

G – painting by Johannes Vermeer, “___ With a Pearl Earring”

H – a Pharrell Williams hit, or something that is “lieto” or “feliz” in Italian

I – had 15 million users in 1995 and 5 billion users in 2020

J – was Pope only for 33 days (in 1978)

K – more familiar name for Godwin-Austen, Lambha Pahar or Chogori (the 2nd highest mountain on Earth)

L – fashion house ____ Vuitton, or someone numbered XVI who had a crappy time around 1790

M – M in BMW

N – a three-part waterfall, “Honeymoon Capital of the World”

O – you cannot make this without breaking eggs

P – a Japanese media franchise featuring Ash Ketchum

Q – cheese in Spanish

R – European capital that means “smoky bay” in the country’s own language

S – Twilight main character Bella, or a bird familiar to Tchaikovsky fans

T – a Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer who worked for Edison and powered the Niagara Falls

U – Tashkent is the capital of this country

V – tennis player Williams, or the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite

W – physical motion in atmosphere, or something that is East, South, West or North in Mahjong

X – chemical element Xe: a noble gas that has been used in flash lamps and as a general anaesthetic

Y – a pronoun, or someone for whom Bryan Adams does everything he does

Z – fictional swordsman whose true identity is Don Diego de la Vega