AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #50

A – first name of Italian explorer Vespucci, from whose name the term "America" is derived

B – female counterpart to the superhero whose alias is Bruce Wayne

C – what is white in Dover, or Barnes in Dallas

D – a data storage device, or what Hoke Colburn did to Miss Daisy

E – country where Bata is the largest city and a new capital city is under construction

F – not slow, not gluttony

G – Paul Simon’s folk rock duo partner Art (e.g. “The Sound of Silence”)

H – Belo _________, the sixth largest city in Brazil

I – what can be added to injury

J – first name of Conrad who wrote Heart of Darkness

K – the largest city of Pakistan

L – LOG button on a calculator

M – founder of Islam

N – the least-populous capital city of a sovereign nation in the world (and perhaps the hardest to remember)

O – singer and songwriter Roy (“Oh, Pretty Woman”, “You Got It”)

P – is “prigione” in Italian, or “correction center” in America

Q – what is this sentence?

R – genre of Barbara Cartland, the third best-selling author worldwide

S – 1999 hit by Darude, or an unpleasant surprise in a desert

T – hypothetical transfer of matter or energy, e.g. in the video game Portal

U – the official who presides over a tennis game sitting on a high chair (but does not strike back)

V – one of the most widely-used French words; means, e.g. “here you are”

W – actor who starred in Die Hard, Pulp Fiction and Armageddon and was married to Demi Moore

X – human rights activist and African-American Muslim minister Malcolm

Y – popular website named after legendary beings in the novel Gulliver's Travels

Z – ___ Buddhism, a practice that places great importance on moment-by-moment awareness