AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #59

A – capital of Turkmenistan, largely rebuilt since the 1948 earthquake

B – one of Weezer’s first hits (named after an American singer who fatally chose an airplane over a tour bus in 1959)

C – island where British Overseas Territory Akrotiri and Dhekelia is located (never mind which continent)

D – to determine a disease; its anagram is San Diego

E – first name of Thompson whose roles include Elinor Dashwood, Nanny McPhee, and Professor Sybil Trelawney, or a Jane Austen book

F – what you can’t see for the trees

G – unit prefix denoting a factor of 1,000,000,000

H – a moon of Saturn, named after the mythical girl whom Paris seduced and carried off to Troy with dire consequences

I – significance, or to bring something in from a foreign country

J – tennis legend Billie ____ King

K – another name for jack who is 11 and black or red

L – the Eiffel Tower’s French nickname "La dame de fer" means "Iron ____"

M – is “dinero” in Spanish, or the thing Jerry Maguire was supposed to show

N – country named after the third-longest river in Africa

O – first name of talk show host Winfrey

P – not absent, not the past

Q – acronym for a framework for building real-time embedded applications or for a McDonald’s hamburger

R – Donald Duck writer and illustrator Don

S – singing voice with the highest vocal range, or a TV mobster

T – a square in Manhattan, or what, according to Bob Dylan, are a-changin’

U – country where Salto is the 2nd largest city

V – author of Latin epic poem The Aeneid

W – first name of Buffett, American investor and world's eighth-wealthiest person

X – a liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent; many markers are nowadays 100% ______ free

Y – peninsula in south-eastern Mexico, including portions of Belize and Guatemala

Z – the last human city on Earth in The Matrix, or synonym for Jerusalem (Mount ____)