AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #51

A – a jump in figure skating, or Beverly Hills Cop Foley

B – country with the world’s 8th largest population but smaller in area than any other in top 25

C – to cut, or a short segment of electronic media

D – the best-selling Canadian singer ("My Heart Will Go On")

E – comes every day, as “Abend” in Germany

F – English self-taught scientist Michael who invented the _______ cage, an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields

G – first name of Simenon, author of the detective Maigret books

H – the 17th- to 19th-century name for the continent of Australia was New ______

I – in poker, to just call a small bet before the flop is to limp __

J – J country closest to Europe

K – Brazilian former soccer player, was voted the 2007 IFFHS World's Best Playmaker when at AC Milan

L – film director Sidney (12 Angry Men, Serpico); the name is plural of snow in Finnish

M – a computer-animated media franchise owned by DreamWorks Animation, or a country

N – surrounded by Triton, Proteus, and at least 12 others

O – a major Czech city located at the confluences of rivers Oder, Opava, Ostravice and Lučina

P – what you shouldn’t cast before swine

Q – a section or area (e.g. of a town), or 25%

R – device that converts certain electromagnetic waves to sound, or Queen hit “_____ Ga Ga”

S – 3-time Oscar winner Meryl

T – American sitcom whose last episode, aired in 2015, had Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christian Slater as guest stars (but no Charlie Sheen)

U – the address of a webpage or other Internet resource

V – ____ del Mar, Chile’s fourth largest city; the name means “Vineyard of the Sea”

W – to serve customers in a restaurant, or what is being done for Godot in a Samuel Beckett play

X – __________ of Colophon, one of the most important Pre-Socratic philosophers (Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος)

Y – “first” name of Tu, the 2015 winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine (the name has a personal pronoun repeated)

Z – Émile who wrote Nana and J'Accuse…!