AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #6

A – is currently at 66.5°N but moves north about 15 m per year

B – American singer ____ Mars; the name is derived from an Old High German name meaning “brown”

C – something the Sun has, or a popular Mexican beer

D – Blade Runner main character Rick (name pronounced roughly the same way as the name of the French philosopher René who actually made the sentence “I think, therefore I am” famous)

E – NFL team Philadelphia ____, or the band with the hit “Hotel California”

F – to travel through a gas or a vacuum, or an insect of the order Diptera

G – Niger River drains into the Gulf of _____

H – if it’s on the ____, it’s free and paid for

I – industrial rock back Nine ____ Nails, or something that is still used in USA and Liberia

J – Honda model equivalent to Fit, or a musical art form characterized by polyrhythms and improvisation

K – first name of the character in South Park who got killed many, many times

L – nickname for both Lionel Messi and the Hollywood actor starring in Titanic and Inception

M – Latin term for "greatest", or Russell Crowe’s gladiator

N – widely used nickname for Columbus’s ship Santa Clara

O – to determine which direction one is facing, or a term that comprises anything that belongs to the Eastern world

P – rover that landed on Mars in February 2021, nicknamed Percy

Q – fictional hunchback in a Paris cathedral that, in real life, burned badly in 2019

R – country where the second largest city is Iași

S – world's greatest dramatist, “The Bard”, whose son was called Hamnet

T – pack of playing cards including The Empress, The Magician and Death

U – organization that won Nobel Peace Prize for 2001, along with Kofi Annan

V – city with the world's oldest film festival and where you’d find the Doge's Palace

W – Laura Esquivel’s novel Like ___ for Chocolate, or one of the four classical elements

X – video gaming brand created by Microsoft

Y – the only country that begins with the letter Y in English

Z – is “nulo“ in Esperanto, or “love” in tennis