AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #97

A – Tajikistan was part of Uzbekistan as an __________ republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929

B – “There's a lady who's sure; All that glitters is gold; And she's ______ a stairway to heaven …”

C – the basic unit of a living organism, or short for mobile phone

D – a place to sleep; its anagram is “dirty room”

E – country where the last battle or “skirmish” occurred on 18 December 1745 (if you don’t count a bit of tussling in 1838 and 1940)

F – Johann Sebastian Bach’s 18th century hit “Toccata and _____”

G – Lac Léman at the French-Swiss border is also known as Lake ______

H – an alien in Avengers Assemble, a sponge-like moon of Saturn, or Titan who fathered Helios

I – G.I. (e.g. G.I. Joe) originally stood for Galvanized ____

J – first name of Thorpe, the first Native American to win a gold medal for the U.S. in the Olympics

K – South Korean car manufacturer, or New Zealand greeting “___ ora”

L – what every metaphorical cloud has of silver colour

M – not communicative, not dad

N – NSFW is ___ ____ For Work

O – the 2nd largest province by total area in Canada

P – agricultural goods, or what Aphex Twin does to albums

Q – the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history

R – authors Anne ____ and Edgar ____ Burroughs

S – a children's card game where players claim pairs of matching cards, or what someone suffering a mental breakdown does

T – precedes break, follows bow

U – not expected, or American documentary TV program ________ Suspects

V – the capital of Lithuania

W – Erysimum (a genus of flowering plants), or The Perks of Being a __________

X – a people in Ethiopia speaking the Xamtanga language

Y – a form of singing, originally used by herders calling their flocks or to communicate between Alpine villages

Z – virus that caused an epidemic in 2015–2016 in the Americas (____ fever)