AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #11

A – the only continent without active volcanoes

B – fibre-rich part of cereal grains, or the Stark boy pushed out the window (by Jaime Lannister saying, “The things I do for love”)

C – Swedish athlete Klüft, or two U.S. states

D – matter that accounts for about 85% of the matter in the universe, or where Bruce Springsteen is dancing

E – H. C. Andersen’s tale “The ______'s New Clothes”

F – discovered penicillin and predicted the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

G – entryways to hell such as Mount Etna, or the richest Bill in the world

H – someone coming from the second-largest city in Germany, or a hot sandwich that you cannot escape nowadays even in North Korea

I – the innermost and third largest of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter

J – Thai fragrant rice, or Disney princess from “Aladdin”

K – if you were a teenage girl in the 90s, you probably know what K in NKOTB is

L – elf in “The Lord of the Rings” who has a Danish plastic block in his name

M – to intend, or the average of a set of values

N – Keanu Reeves character in “The Matrix”, or a prefix meaning new

O – 2017 game Super Mario _____, refers also to one very, very long journey from Troy to Ithaca

P – the northern major island of the country of São Tomé and ______

Q – Sue Grafton’s mystery novel "Q Is for ____” about a body found near an open-pit mine

R – something you can do with a troublemaker or in a boat, or a line of regularly spaced objects

S – to hurt with a sharp point, or Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner

T – capital city previously known as Reval and whose current name possibly means “Danish town” or “winter-castle”

U – short name for any German (military) submarine

V – American football team Minnesota _____, referring to Scandinavian seafaring warriors

W – Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 fantasy film “The Shape of ____”

X – a musical instrument that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets; the name means “sound of wood”

Y – vertical axis on a graph

Z – to compress files, or a clothing innovation from the late 19th century