AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #54

A – the largest country by total area in Africa

B – capital city whose centre is less than 10 km from the border of Austria

C – one of the most frequently used words by Beavis & Butt-Head, or kølig in Danish

D – French luxury fashion house (Christian ____ SE)

E – type of car that was popular until about 1910, after which it was replaced by cheaper gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles

F – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama that was based on a real German alchemist and magician

G – what money doesn’t do on trees

H – Blur’s single “Country _____”, which briefly won the “Battle of Britpop” over Oasis’s “Roll With It”

I – word that precedes cream or land

J – The Prestige and Wolverine star Hugh

K – country you end up in if you drive northeast from Dushanbe

L – is “peu de” or “petit” in French (e.g. Le Petit Prince)

M – U.S. state whose largest city is Kansas City

N – first name of tennis player Djokovic with several Grand Slam titles

O – the Doors hit “Break On Through (To the _____ ____)”

P – a sound from a baby bird, or what Tom did when Lady Godiva rode through Coventry

Q – to satisfy (“Cause I'm on fire; _____ my desire”)

R – American football team Los Angeles ____, or hydraulic pistons

S – the first artificial Earth satellite, or a viral vector vaccine for Covid-19

T – city hosting a 101-floor skyscraper that was the world's tallest building when it opened in 2004

U – battle royale game PUBG: Battlegrounds was previously known as Player_______’s Battlegrounds

V – La dolce ____, Federico Fellini’s 1960 comedy-drama film

W – John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of _____

X – wife of Socrates, who is said to have chosen her for her argumentative spirit

Y – a person who always agrees with his superior, or a Jim Carrey movie

Z – a green summer squash known as courgette in the UK