AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #68

A – a rod that passes through the centre of a wheel or group of wheels

B – between a Knight and a Queen, behind a Pawn

C – country hosting the geographical midpoint of Africa

D – French composer Claude ("Clair de lune")

E – Avengers: _______; was the highest-grossing film of all time from July 2019 until March 2021

F – Gustave who wrote Madame Bovary, a novel that became a bestseller because of a trial where the author was accused of insulting public morals

G – precedes night, follows feel

H – brother of Dewey and Louie

I – good things that are used to pave the road to hell

J – not Wozniak, but the other Steve whose Macintosh was the first mass-produced computer with a graphical user interface

K – Mexican painter Frida who was disabled by polio as a child and chronically injured in a bus accident at 18

L – Richard Bach’s illustrated novella Jonathan __________ Seagull

M – sassy friend of Joan in Girlfriends, or a Mesoamerican civilization

N – a mesh stretched to divide a court, or to receive as profit

O – tree in the genus Quercus, whose fruit is a nut called an acorn or ___ nut

P – island nation where the largest islands are Luzon and Mindanao

Q – Latin for “oak tree” (and you know this)

R – is “rojo” in Spanish, rum in The Shining, or Sox in Boston

S – a huge thing that has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia crystals and a ring system with ice particles and rocky debris

T – capital city whose name means “three cities”

U – a region of central Italy; the only landlocked region on the Apennine Peninsula

V – team sport developed by William Morgan with hundreds of millions of active players

W – American actress Betty (1922–2021), or what some lies are

X – American rapper and TV presenter whose stage name is pronounced "exhibit"

Y – national park in California with granite cliffs, waterfalls, glaciers, etc.

Z – shingles, also known as herpes ______