AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #37

A – the president of France is also the co-prince of this country

B – Californian music group ___ Eyed Peas, or the last name of Harry Potter’s godfather Sirius

C – James Bond actor who was born between the 5th and 6th Bond movie

D – the greatest novelist of the Victorian era (e.g. Great Expectations)

E – first name of Fermi whose work in nuclear physics was crucial to the development of the world’s first nuclear reactor; the name is derived from Heinrich

F – title character in Mozart’s opera where two servants get married despite their employer’s attempts to seduce one of them

G – email service with about 2 billion users

H – pearls in Finnish, or a hard hat in English

I – Chichén ____, a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula

J – what you should do to them if you can’t beat them

K – movie starring Colin Firth with Spanish title El discurso del rey

L – the first UN Secretary-General Trygve, or what Shakira’s hips don’t do

M – mountain that is 10,205 m (33,480 feet) high when measured from its base to its peak

N – in a compass, or, when preceded by Space, in Seattle

O – Law & _____, American TV series that ran for 20 seasons

P – Lady Gaga hit “___ Face”, or something that has a popular variant Texas Hold’em

Q – a fraudulent healer, or to make a noise like a duck

R – sport that was developed around 1845 and named after a school and a small town in Warwickshire, England

S – about 300,000,000 m/s

T – African lake that is the world’s second-largest lake by volume and the second deepest

U – country represented by Akbar Djuraev, a weightlifting gold medallist from Tokyo Olympics in 2021

V – American actor Jon (Midnight Cowboy), Angelina Jolie’s father

W – an adjective related to a good alibi and hopefully any boat you’re boarding

X – Louis ___ who was called the God-Given and the Sun King

Y – Captain John in Catch-22

Z – the most populous island in Denmark, or, if preceded by New, a country with a high sheep-to-human ratio