AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #28

A – in Hinduism, the incarnation of a deity; the word is also familiar from gaming and from the highest-grossing movie ever

B – country whose capital Porto Novo is just 40 mins by car from Nigeria

C – to move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground, or Radiohead’s first hit

D – author of On the Origin of Species who, as a young man, spent five productive years travelling around the world on HMS Beagle

E – a dormant volcano in Europe that is 833 m higher than Mont Blanc

F – car that got its name from Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino

G – movie trilogy The Naked ___, where detective Frank Drebin saves the day after making a complete fool of himself

H – is “hætte” in Danish, or Robin in Sherwood

I – a religious painting, or something on a computer screen which performs some function when clicked

J – capital city that was known as Batavia until 1942

K – first name of French football star Mbappé

L – TV series that started with a plane crash, or what you’ve done to that lovin’ feelin’, according to the Righteous Brothers

M – metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg; the only element that has been named after a Roman god

N – a brief respite, or, if preceded by “kid”, refers to a crime

O – young noblewoman who pursued Hamlet but ended up going bonkers and drowning

P – Robert who is best known as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, or one of the four eukaryotic kingdoms of life

Q – a state in north-eastern Australia

R – machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically

S – Stephen King novel that you perhaps shouldn’t be reading if you’re working as a winter caretaker in an isolated hotel

T – Disney-Pixar film that is L'Histoire de jouets in French

U – in poker, the player sitting in the first-to-act position is said to be _____ the gun

V – first name of Nabokov, Russian-born author of Lolita

W – baseball legend Ted, or a Formula One racing team

X – a king of the First Persian Empire, grandson of Cyrus the Great

Y – the holiest day of the year in Judaism, also known as the Day of Atonement

Z – The Twilight ____, TV series that first started in 1959