AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #58

A – fictional island that sank

B – what employees are supposed to be doing in team-building activities, or James with a licence to kill

C – modern form of customer service that is often handled by bots (change the last letter and you got an African country)

D – Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the ___ in the Night-Time, or Suede album ___ Man Star

E – songwriting competition in Europe held annually (apart from 2020) since 1956

F – eating “utensils” used to eat pasta before tomato sauce was introduced in the 1790s

G – “I’d catch a _______ for ya; Throw my hand on a blade for ya; I'd jump in front of a train for ya; You know I'd do anything for ya”

H – not coldness, but Miami’s basketball team

I – Edith Wharton’s The Age of _________, winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

J – has a mass of 318 Earths

K – having a friendly, warm-hearted nature, or child in German

L – the first Soviet republic to declare that it was an independent nation in 1990

M – ______ 5, band with hits “Moves like Jagger” and “Animals”

N – national capital that is 800 km (500 mi) north of Kingston

O – nerve that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain

P – American corporation that owned submarines, a cruiser and a destroyer, only because Soviet Union paid for soft drinks with military equipment

Q – mycoprotein-based meat substitute, or a fox hunt, both named after an English village

R – strategy board game of world conquest with 42 territories

S – an amphetamine, or 1994 movie with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock

T – swimming, cycling, and running all in the same race

U – animated feature by Disney/Pixar where a widower flies with his house; the French title is Là-haut

V – capital of Seychelles

W – Murder, She _____, TV series starring Angela Lansbury as a mystery novelist

X – Louis ___ who, in 1830, was the King of France for about 20 minutes, until he stood up to his wife and abdicated

Y – the largest city of Myanmar

Z – porous mineral used in water softeners