AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #83

A – a general term for a minor planet of the inner Solar System

B – David, the first English soccer player to win league titles in four countries

C – a storage closet, or a council of high-ranking members of government

D – meaning of “Dolci” on a menu of an Italian restaurant

E – Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table of the ________

F – father and daughter actors Henry and Jane

G – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great ______ about the Jazz Age of the 1920s

H – a city in the Caribbean, or a hit by Camila Cabello

I – what you used to listen to music in 2008 if Apple’s your thing

J – ____ Kids, a memoir by Patti Smith

K – the only republic remaining in the Soviet Union in December 1991 before it ceased to exist

L – a ride, or what a rising tide does to all boats

M – if you drive north from Bamako, you end up in this country

N – TV show inspired by Luc Besson's thriller La Femme ______, or first name of USSR leader Khrushchev

O – shape of an office that features a fireplace and three south-facing windows behind the president’s desk

P – country that has the world’s largest contiguous irrigation system

Q – arcade game where the objective is to change every cube in a pyramid to a target colour by making _*____ hop on top of the cube

R – Harvey Comics character or TV series ______ Rich

S – word that was first used in 2002 and now covers a significant portion of all photographs in social media

T – the most famous person with first names John Ronald Reuel

U – may contain either coffee or a dead person

V – a carrion-eating bird, or a person who profits from the suffering of others

W – Barbra Streisand’s biggest hit “_____ in Love”

X – city in Greece famous for its annual spring carnival

Y – Alfonso Cuarón’s film _ __ mamá también (And Your Mom Too)

Z – unit prefix meaning a factor of 10 to the power of negative twenty-one; “септо” in Bulgarian