AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #89

The first answer starts with an A, and so on...
Full names are alphabetised according to surname, not considering a possible surname prefix.
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A – largest city in the time zone UTC/GMT –9 hours
Anchorage
B – former American football player, sports analyst and actor Jim, or 4-point ball in snooker
Brown
C – Sia's hit from 2014 that would be “Kronleuchter” in German
Chandelier
D – country in Africa that has the same name for country and capital city
Djibouti
E – the most central part of the mind (I or me in Latin)
Ego
F – follows trust, precedes raise
Fund
G – CDG is for Charles de ______
Gaulle
H – Bellingcat founder Eliot, Jack who wrote The Eagle Has Landed, or author Mary _______ Clark
Higgins
I – is “senkulpa” in Esperanto, or 13 Popes in history
Innocent
J – first name of Dutch chronobiology scientist Meijer, or author Spyri (1881 novel Heidi)
Johanna
K – capital city 800 km (500 mi) east of Taj Mahal
Kathmandu
L – statesman and abolitionist who was born on the same day in 1809 as Charles Darwin
Abraham Lincoln
M – not Mayer or Goldwyn, but the Paris underground
Metro
N – was suspected of instigating the Great Fire of Rome to clear land for his planned “Golden House”
Nero
O – olives in Swedish, or singer Tree (“Miss You”, “Alien Boy”)
Oliver
P – something thin and sharp, or (as an acronym) what most of us have had to memorize
Pin
Q – actor Dennis (The Parent Trap, Vantage Point)
Quaid
R – a type of motor racing event, or what the stocks can do after a decline in prices
Rally
S – Neptune’s moon named after one of the Nereids, or Portuguese word for “Saint” without the tilde
Sao
T – Grand _____ Auto, game where you can drive and shoot in Liberty City
Theft
U – a superhero; the first tokusatsu hero launched by Tsuburaya Productions
Ultraman
V – capital of Castile and León in Spain
Valladolid
W – region that united with Moldavia in 1859 to form the United Principalities, which later adopted the name Romania
Wallachia
X – a person who has a love of foreign people and culture
Xenophile
Y – an exclamation of disgust
Yuck
Z – the letter Z, when not “zee”
Zed
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