AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #88

A – old in German, or ctrl+___+del

B – sport named after the estate of the Duke of Beaufort (who introduced the racket game at a lawn-party)

C – slang for gonorrhea, or what you do with your hands after a performance

D – book whose original version starts: “Zondag, 14 juni 1942. Vridag 12 juni was ik al om 6 uur ...”

E – CEO is Chief ____ Officer

F – capital city of Kentucky

G – mother of Liza Minnelli; played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

H – Etta James’s hit “Something's Got a ____ on Me”

I – American TV magic show Masters of ________

J – tried to return his 30 pieces of silver, ended up throwing them away and committing suicide

K – precedes start, follows side

L – Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty _______ the People, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830

M – ____ Man (video game with treacherous Dr. Wily), or a prefix meaning “large” used in taxonomy

N – island with the highest elevation

O – Wilbur Wright’s little brother, who died when Neil Armstrong was 17 years old

P – ____ Panther, an animated character or a diamond

Q – QPR is ______ ____ Rangers

R – vehicle propelled by a reaction gas engine, or a leaf vegetable (“rucola” in Italian)

S – not club, but a shovel

T – 2020 spy film by Christopher Nolan where things can move forwards or backwards in time; the title is (fittingly) a palindrome

U – Tupac Shakur’s album _____ the End of Time

V – fictional country Val _____; the missing word is also in the name of a real country in Africa

W – in 1907, Finland became the first country to have _____ elected to Parliament

X – American cable provider (before 2010 known as Comcast)

Y – country that came into existence after WWI in 1918 and dissolved in the early 90s

Z – first name of Malik who left One Direction in 2015