AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #32

A – Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is set in this country

B – _______ Bad, a TV series about a chemistry teacher who starts to produce crystal meth

C – a mountainous region in the provinces of Florence, Siena and Arezzo, or Hannibal Lecter’s wine of choice

D – Baha Men hit “Who Let the ____ Out”

E – flowering trees found across Australasia

F – a piece of photographic film containing an image, or what someone did to Roger Rabbit

G – a spherical model of Earth, or Shakespeare’s theatre in London

H – H in HBO

I – a fact or set of facts, knowledge or news communicated by others or obtained by personal investigation

J – first name of Kostelić, former alpine ski racer and four-time Olympic gold medallist

K – a type of interactive entertainment; the word comes from Japanese (“empty orchestra”)

L – to desire greatly, or the largest island in the contiguous United States

M – a dish of ground meat, or singer with hit “I’d Lie for You (And That’s the Truth)”

N – spent 370 days on a boat with his family and a bunch of animals

O – S.E. Hinton’s novel that she wrote during high school

P – the currency you’d probably use to buy a tequila in the town of Tequila

Q – UK band that started out as Smile and ended up with Adam Lambert

R – Formula One champions Keke (father) and Nico (son)

S – telecommunications application, developed in Scandinavia and Estonia, with 300 million monthly users in 2021

T – the cards played in one round and used as a scoring unit or, if done with a “hat”, three goals in the same match

U – artificial intelligence appearing in the film Avengers: Age of ______

V – brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio, or wasp in Italian

W – waterproof rubber boots worn by a Brit, or a capital in the far south

X – piece of rock brought in from another area (literally: foreign rock)

Y – what Thursday is on Friday

Z – Iranian prophet who founded a religion, but it’s not even known in which millennium he lived