AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #71

A – island where Oranjestad is the largest city

B – a voice or other sound low in pitch or frequency, or a fish resembling the perch

C – singer Miley, or someone called “the Great” who founded the first Persian Empire

D – __________ Me, animated film about reformed super-villain Gru

E – first name of Norwegian painter Munch (The Scream)

F – jazz singer Ella who won 13 Grammy awards and sold more than 40 million albums

G – take it with a _____ of salt

H – many-headed serpent in Greek mythology, or the second-largest moon of Pluto

I – is “als” in Dutch, “hvis” in Norwegian, and “se” in Italian

J – cross-country skier Therese who used an ointment for her sore lips

K – the capital of Ukraine and one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe

L – Homer, Marge, Bart, ____, Maggie

M – not orange, not Japanese

N – _____-cancelling headphones

O – U.S. state whose capital is Columbus and athletes are Bobcats

P – actor Gregory (To Kill a Mockingbird), or what is done on the cheek

Q – a sector of the Cartesian plane, or one fourth of a circle

R – 2018 action-adventure game Red Dead __________ 2

S – if you travel from Vaduz to Como, you go through this country

T – the all-time best-selling novel is Dickens’ A Tale of ___ ______

U – country with long-time President Yoweri Museveni

V – rapper whose hit “Ice Ice Baby” was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts, or an ice cream

W – 1990s western TV series ______, Texas Ranger, or Alice who wrote The Color Purple

X – Extensible Markup Language; a flexible text format for creating structured computer documents

Y – 12 _____ _ _____, 2013 movie by Steve McQueen based on the 1853 slave memoir by Solomon Northup

Z – currency of Poland