AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #47

A – emperor whose last public words were, “I found Rome of clay; I leave it to you of marble”

B – one of the world's most popular card games, or Golden Gate

C – a learning programme, or where golf is played

D – city where you can visit Jumeirah Mosque and Burj Khalifa

E – the number of days it took Phileas Fogg to go around the world

F – a group of vessels, or what the moment does (when in hurry)

G – is “gull” in Norwegian, or Au in chemistry

H – prefaced by #

I – Australian rock band with hits “Need You Tonight” and “Suicide Blonde”

J – home country of sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah

K – company known for photographic film products; its full name is Eastman _____ Company

L – African capital whose name includes the opposite of short

M – Prime Minister of Finland whose name is very close to a country enclaved by Italy

N – author of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)

O – Robyn’s hit "Dancing on My ___"

P – world’s 43rd most spoken language, or what can be done to silver

Q – perfectly typical or representative; the word refers to the fifth essence

R – “In the black corner, … the Italian Stallion, _____ Balboa!”

S – not winter, but a person who adds numbers together

T – Spain’s highest peak, which is the mountain that casts the world’s largest shadow projected on the sea

U – city in the Netherlands known in Roman times as Traiectum or Ultra Traiectum

V – first name of Fleming, director of Gone with the Wind; the name means winner or conqueror

W – a route; a large one is Milky

X – mutant Professor Charles Francis ______, or missionary Francis

Y – TV sitcom Curb ____ Enthusiasm

Z – ____ am See, Austrian ski resort named after a monk's cell in a monastery