AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #67

A – country where Alexander Van der Bellen is president since 2017

B – edges of a river, or name of the family in Mary Poppins

C – Wii video game Link’s ________ Training, known in Japan as Link’s Bowgun Training

D – first name of author Tartt, or woman in Italian

E – a complex mechanical device that converts energy into useful motion or physical effects

F – not Monday, but named after Freya

G – country on the north-western side of El Salvador

H – is “cap” in Romanian, or “tête” in French

I – sci-fi martial arts TV series ____ The Badlands

J – English physician who created the smallpox vaccine and thus saved millions of people

K – 2 to the 10th power, or 1024, bytes

L – the second largest river in Africa that drains to the Indian Ocean

M – Richard, Karl or Groucho

N – drama series set in Colombia; seasons 1 and 2 are based on the story of drug lord Pablo Escobar

O – Sam Smith’s Spectre theme song “Writing’s __ ___ ____”

P – wrote an erotic novel and Commentaries, the only published autobiography by a reigning pope

Q – this thing you’re doing now

R – rough, riotous or just boisterous, or nickname of wrestler Ronda Rousey

S – the player who calls the shots in curling, or what Ferris Bueller did to school

T – African capital closest to Rome

U – H. C. Andersen’s tale where a young duck is bullied by the other farm animals

V – a patient with severe brain damage, or a cucumber

W – southern part of Belgium

X – is ...-- ..--- in Morse code, “trettiotvå” in Swedish, _____ in Roman numerals

Y – Australian (Scottish-born) brothers Malcolm and Angus who formed AC/DC in 1973

Z – supervillain and Superman’s enemy, General ___