AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #79

A – a law, or what thespians do

B – religious leader whose spot of enlightenment under a bodhi tree has been preserved for about 2500 years

C – skydiving devices, or tubes through which one can slide down; the board game Snakes and ladders is also known as ______ and Ladders

D – a Marvel character (acronym nickname), or a person who plays and mixes recorded music for an audience

E – someone who died – or did he? (his anagram is “Lives”)

F – acronym for International Federation of Association Football

G – plant grown as ground cover, or German writer Günter (The Tin Drum)

H – reality TV show The Real __________ of New Jersey

I – another name for the Volcano Islands of Japan, of which ___ Jima is one

J – not August, but named after Caesar

K – first name of inspector Wallander created by Henning Mankell

L – a great deal, or a distinct portion or plot of land

M – main island of the island nation whose capital is Port Louis

N – Hitchcock’s 1959 spy thriller North by _________

O – Michelle who wrote 2018 autobiography Becoming

P – the most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere

Q – multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, which creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology

R – historic market town in Berkshire, England, or the thing you do with books

S – like, comment, _____ (in German: “gefällt mir, kommentieren, teilen”)

T – degree to which a poisonous substance may harm a cell or organism, or System of a Down’s 2001 hit

U – an alien spacecraft

V – ice hockey team _____ Golden Knights who compete in the Pacific Division of NHL

W – awarded actor Denzel (Training Day, Unstoppable)

X – team size in rugby union, “quinze” in French, __ in Roman numerals

Y – me or I in Spanish, or a slang interjection (“__, Adrian, I did it!”)

Z – Novaya ______, an archipelago in the northern part of Russia; houses the easternmost point of Europe