AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #45

A – largest capital city in the world by surface area

B – Harald who united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom, or technology that unites devices

C – to recite numbers in sequence, or The ____ of Monte Cristo

D – not duchess, but jazz orchestra leader Ellington

E – currency of Lithuania and Luxembourg

F – is “poisson” in French, or Pisces in astrology

G – a lizard, or the anti-hero in Wall Street

H – don’t put the cart before this

I – place to buy Swedish furniture; the name is an acronym for the founder’s initials, his family's farm and the village where he grew up in

J – a task, or biblical figure beset with horrendous disasters

K – Muppet character ______ the Frog

L – Stanisław who wrote Solaris

M – she stepped on her executioner’s foot on her way to the guillotine and apologised

N – host of the 1998 Winter Olympics

O – the tallest mountain in the Solar System

P – fairly, quite, or what hurts Beyoncé

Q – _________ Roo, a Mexican state on the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula

R – to move gently back and forth, or something an aspiring geologist might collect

S – in various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring, or what was being done to Private Ryan

T – 1982 album by Michael Jackson, the best-selling album of all time

U – command included in most software programs to reverse an action

V – a palace near Paris, used by Napoleon as a summer residence

W – a disputed territory of which about 20% is controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

X – warrior princess in TV and video games; played by Lucy Lawless in 1995–2001

Y – the quantity of something produced, or to surrender

Z – the westernmost province of the Netherlands; consists of islands and peninsulas