AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #9

A – Plato’s student who disagreed with Plato’s ideas on equality of men and women and was (unfortunately) the more influential philosopher of the two

B – a country on an island in the Persian Gulf

C – a type of spaniel, or Joe who sang “Up Where We Belong” with Jennifer Warnes

D – baseball team from Michigan: _____ Tigers

E – the current lingua franca of international business, science, aviation, etc.

F – (in the book) a second-year university student from Geneva who creates a live humanoid from dead tissues

G – serious and sombre, or the last place where most of us will go

H – Mad About You actor Helen, or something that the fox really, really does not look forward to

I – Billy who'd do anything for his sweet sixteen

J – 2007 movie of a pregnant teenager, or Roman goddess married to Jupiter

K – inability to resist the urge to steal items

L – U.S. city in a desert; name means “The Meadows”

M – a word familiar to sports fans and pyromaniacs, or something mothers are constantly trying to find for their daughters if we believe Jane Austen

N – in units, between micro and pico

O – “____Trail”, a series of educational computer games, referring to a U.S. state

P – P in OPEC

Q – Marvel character who moves at superhuman speed, or a common name for mercury

R – the young kangaroo in Winnie-the-Pooh

S – a weekly current affairs magazine published in Germany, or the rear part of a ship

T – to practice an ability, or Paula Hawkins novel “The Girl on the ___”

U – general of the Union Army and U.S. president _____ S. Grant, or a variant of the name Odysseus

V – 2012 album by Grimes, based on the Latin word for "act of seeing”

W – witch or warlock, like Merlin

X – one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe

Y – the time it takes Tellus to complete one revolution of the Sun

Z – Robert who directed “Back to the Future” and “Forrest Gump”