AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #52

A – is “asistir” in Spanish, or “dime” in basketball

B – B in USB

C – country using the currency colón (named after Columbus)

D – first name of "The Rock" Johnson (e.g. Fast & Furious)

E – a pictogram used in electronic messages; the word is Japanese

F – Bugs Bunny’s archenemy Elmer

G – happiness in German, or Louise, the 2020 Nobel Prize winner in Literature

H – capital of Solomon Islands

I – Ralph Ellison’s _________ Man, a novel addressing social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans

J – person in the ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah

K – the official name of the world’s 22nd largest country is the _______ of Thailand

L – a stray mongrel who got in a hot spot on 3 November 1957

M – not a kilometre, but green in a Tom Hanks movie

N – video game Resident Evil 3: _______ (like Elmer to Bugs)

O – Canadian ice hockey legend Bobby

P – country with the world’s best climate (according to IL’s 2021 Annual Global Retirement Index)

Q – plant grown as a crop primarily for its edible seeds; name comes from Quechua kinwa or kinuwa

R – a shortened raised bread, or what Adele was doing in the deep

S – first name of Scottish actor Connery (Bond, Indiana Jones’s father), who died in 2020

T – a room for carrying out surgical operations, or a place to play Molière

U – city in Germany known for the church with the world’s tallest steeple

V – international reality TV singing competition franchise based on The _____ of Holland

W – Stevie who just called to say he loves you (with sunglasses on)

X – the thing on a Cartesian coordinate system that does not start with Y or Z

Y – the second-largest city in Cameroon

Z – stringed instrument, played by e.g. Anton Karas and Dolly Parton