AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #74

A – year in Catalan, or precedes thing or way in English

B – 2017 musical fantasy film, a live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1991 animated film of the same name, based on a fairy tale from 1756

C – country where athletes Manuel Plaza and Marcelo Salas come from

D – Aerosmith's hit "_____ On", or Cao Xueqin’s book _____ of the Red Chamber

E – intergovernmental space exploration organisation that sent JUICE towards Jupiter in 2023

F – 2-time Oscar winner Jodie; the name means fetus in Swedish

G – foodstuff whose rising consumption in the U.S. is likely due to the growth of the U.S. Latino population and the lifting of a ban on avocado imports

H – 10 on Mohs scale shows that diamond is the _______ natural mineral

I – word meaning “between the stars”, or movie where a NASA pilot in another galaxy sees his daughter’s childhood bedroom

J – the largest feline on the American continent

K – “Head, shoulders, _____, and toes, _____ and toes”

L – was used in Italy and Malta until 2001 and is still being used in Turkey

M – capital city about half-way between Dar es Salaam and Antananarivo

N – N in ISBN

O – author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four

P – possessed of a sense of what one is worth, or Disney Channel’s The _____ Family

Q – ____ pro quo, or pound sterling

R – the first serving U.S. president to survive being shot in an assassination attempt

S – not Bucharest, but Coppola

T – the largest company in the video game industry, or a dime

U – to transfer data or files, especially from a personal computer to an Internet server

V – Foreigner’s album Double ______, or to imagine something

W – The Real _____, TV show that launched the modern reality TV genre

X – father of Luna Lovegood

Y – the smallest and westernmost of Canada’s three territories

Z – first name of Saldaña who started out as a dancer and became the only person to appear in all three of the highest-grossing films of all time (as of 2023)