AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #5

A – Swedish pop group whose music was adapted into the musical “Mamma Mia!”

B – a superhero, or a city and a river in Turkey

C – country known as Zhōngguó (meaning Middle or Central State) to its own people

D – method of scoring in basketball by putting the ball directly in the basket

E – German-Swiss-American physicist who transferred his Nobel Prize fund to his ex-wife and whose name became synonymous with "genius"

F – John Green’s novel “The ___ in Our Stars” about a 16-year-old with cancer, or a fracture that involves displacement

G – Dutchman who painted “The Night Café” and “The Starry Night”

H – animal whose head might turn up in your bed if you’d refused the Godfather’s previous offers

I – if you travelled from Dhaka to Karachi, you’d pass through this country

J – to make a sudden uncontrolled movement, or a person with obnoxious qualities and behaviour

K – father of Michael Douglas, or a Scottish word meaning "church" (or just think Star Trek)

L – large area in Finland where the number of people and reindeer is about the same and where Santa really lives

M – first name of swimmer Phelps, or an archangel

N – no ___ is good ___, or American rock band Huey Lewis and the ___

O – a state of connectivity; a word that nowadays often precedes banking, dating or shopping

P – occupation of Nintendo’s brothers Mario and Luigi

Q – a don who rode Rosinante, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza

R – Justin Timberlake hit “Cry Me a ___”, or Amur (but not the leopard)

S – vast, cold, dry grass-plain, pronounced in the same way as something that many modern people try to hit 10,000 a day

T – number of Earths that would fit between Earth and Moon

U – nasty Hogwarts teacher Dolores, whose name includes the world's most popular card game among seniors

V – small city founded by the Gauls, site of the longest-lasting battle of WWI

W – a U.K. football club from Sheffield, or something named after the Norse god Odin or the Roman god Mercury

X – American corporation selling print and digital document products in more than 150 countries

Y – drama television series “The ___ Pope” with Jude Law

Z – a nesosilicate mineral and gemstone; one of the heaviest gems