AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #62

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Source for the T question: https://www.americancentury.omeka.wlu.edu/items/show/136

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Hint	Answer
A – to give warning to (e.g. in bridge if your partner’s call has a special meaning)	Alert
B – “I'm a ______ girl, in the ______ world; Life in plastic, it’s fantastic”	Barbie
C – on the west coast of Africa, the capital city between Bissau and Freetown	Conakry
D – Benito Mussolini’s “title”	il Duce
E – Killing ___ (TV series about a bored MI5 security officer), or the night before	Eve
F – what you shouldn’t do to it if it ain’t broke, or a Greek beer	Fix
G – Lord of the Flies author William	Golding
H – country where the army ousted President Manuel Zelaya and sent him into exile in 2009	Honduras
I – between microwaves and (visible) light	Infrared
J – first name of actor Foxx (Ray, supervillain Electro)	Jamie
K – rock band from Las Vegas with hits “Somebody Told Me” and “My Own Soul’s Warning”	The Killers
L – capital city furthest away from Canberra	Lisbon
M – what James Bond is ordering when he says, “Shaken, not stirred”	Martini

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N – to observe, or advance announcement of termination of employment	Notice
O – J. Robert, Father of the Atomic Bomb (“How can I save my little boy from ___________'s deadly toy?”)	Oppenheimer
P – state where the de facto administrative capital is Ramallah	Palestine
Q – a preliminary stage of a competition, or a team or person who has won it	Qualifier
R – a train that is out of control, or 2010 hit by Kanye West	Runaway
S – “Ol’ Blue Eyes” Frank (From Here to Eternity, “New York, New York”)	Sinatra
T – a device found in 9% of American homes in 1950 and 98% of American homes in 1978	Television
U – sea ______, a marine echinoderm, “oursin” in French	Urchin
V – trumpet-shaped horn that produces a loud buzzing sound and is a symbol of South African football	Vuvuzela
W – first name of Simpson for whom King Edward VIII abdicated, or ______ and Futuna Islands	Wallis
X – the study of alien biology (in science fiction)	Xenology
Y – Millennium bug or, more generally, year 2000	Y2K
Z – lively, energetic, or fast-moving	Zappy

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