AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #99

A – the first male human in Norse mythology, or to enquire

B – singer whose hit “Space Oddity” was inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey character David Bowman

C – Superman’s and Dracula’s garment

D – something that the __________ People's Republic of Korea is not, despite its official name

E – to compel a player to leave the field, or a button on a VCR

F – Street _______, the highest-grossing fighting game media franchise of all time

G – Gillian Flynn’s runaway bestseller ____ Girl

H – first name of Keller, the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree

I – a dialogue between Socrates and ___, or lithium-___ battery

J – “Hey ____, don't make it bad; Take a sad song and make it better”

K – an educational institution, or where Arnold Schwarzenegger was a cop

L – follows slum, precedes ship

M – board game where players cooperate to build a _____ ____ in the style of a Rube Goldberg machine and then try to trap opponents' game pieces

N – the only country in the world that has exactly one island

O – the amount of prevention that is worth a pound of cure

P – a long and slender piece of wood, an almost unique place on Earth, or someone from Lodz

Q – Chinese basketball player Zhou __

R – painted The Night Watch

S – Tom who skipped school to go swimming, after which his aunt made him whitewash her fence

T – Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s ____

U – a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles; the second-oldest university in California after UC Berkeley

V – certain religious practices in Haiti, or Jimi Hendrix’s “______ Child (Slight Return)”

W – the Dutch used thousands of these in the 1800s to power the reclaiming of land from the sea

X – xenophobic in Spanish

Y – helpful green dinosaur who first appeared in Super Mario World

Z – the only African country where U.S. dollar is the official currency