AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #81

A – H. Rider Haggard‘s 1887 best-seller She: A History of _________ about a journey to Africa

B – follows bell or belly

C – actor Tim (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Annie)

D – the angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, or a quick swim

E – “Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien; I'm an _________ in New York”

F – not Homer Simpson, but a region in Belgium

G – City of ___, 2002 movie that depicts the growth of organized crime in the suburbs of Rio (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus)

H – Cecilia Payne was the first the realize that stars are mostly made of this element (and helium)

I – first name of German philosopher Kant who is best known for his work in ethics and metaphysics

J – capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa

K – grounding of the ball on the opponent’s court in volleyball, or what Michael E. Brown did to Pluto

L – a solitaire, a marble game, a board game, or a maze

M – first name of NHL star Lemieux, or brother of Nintendo’s Luigi

N – capital of Tonga, which was inundated by a tsunami in 2022

O – Richard who created quiz show Pointless and wrote The Thursday Murder Club

P – acronym meaning a bobby, a computer, or sensitive to all ethnicities, etc.

Q – punctuation mark that is “küsimärk” in Estonian

R – to oxidize iron, or first name used by Cohle in True Detective

S – winter sport in which a person rides a sled face down and head-first, or a bodily system of originally about 300 parts and later 206 parts

T – the three literature genres created by Aristotle were the epic, comedy and _______

U – most of the western half of this U.S. state lies in the Great Basin

V – British multinational telecommunications company whose name comes from words that reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones

W – the Stone Roses’ hit “I _____ __ Adored”

X – concert residency by Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas which ended prematurely due to Covid-19

Y – round tent used as a dwelling by nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia

Z – title of Disney film Zootopia in Europe (referring to animals’ metropolis)