Billboard Year End No.1 Albums
"Let It Go" & name this soundtrack album, No. 1 for 2014
Frozen
This Black Panther actor wanted T'Challa's accent to be authentically African, so he spoke in a dialect based on South African Xhosa
Chadwick Boseman
The Scottish & Irish custom of guising, dressing in costume & getting rewards, was a predecessor of this activity
trick or treat
From a radio he boasted on "Industry Baby" of having "couple Grammys on him, couple plaques"
Lil Nas X
Setting ambitious goats will help you do great things; encouraged by co-founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin, even though I'd missed our goal of 50 million users of this browser 1 year, I surpassed our target of 111 million the next year
Google Chrome
No. 1 for 2016 was this Adele number featuring "Hello"
25
The arc reactor in Tony Stark's chest had a core of this element, symbol Pd; exposure to it would later poison him
Palladium
This expression meaning "do as I say" ends with a multi-lane road
my way or the highway
"Mom" sent me a clip of this ABC medical drama that premiered in 2005 but is maintaining its practice in the 2021-22 TV season
Grey's Anatomy
This type of degree produces leaders who have grit & adaptability & can analyze systems, like Bill Hewlett (electrical, Stanford) & me (metallurgical & materials, IIT Kharagpur)
engineering
Having 2018's No. 1 just added to her superstar "reputation"
Taylor Swift
Groot's vocabulary in Guardians 2 is limited; this actor got a script with translations from Groot-speak so his delivery could vary
Vin Diesel
if you don't want to reveal your secrets in this party game, you may have to do something risky
truth or dare
My niece wanted to watch (again) her favorite movie about this superfast animated critter who got a dental makeover
Sonic the Hedgehog
Don't overextend yourself, but don't be afraid to expand your responsibilities, as I did in 2018 when I became responsible for this Google division, the world's most popular operating system for mobile devices
Android
Fans sure weren't "Allergic" to his "Hollywood's Bleeding", tops for 2020
Post Malone
Ant-Man is warned about getting small in this sub-atomic micro-verse; he gets stuck there after his retrieval crew blips
The Quantum Realm
Succeed or fail is at the heart of this "watery" alliterative idiom
sink or swim
Season 12 of this show was on at the gym & I watched Gigi Goode sashay on the runway
RuPaul's Drag Race
f you come to work at our campus, you'll be part of a history predating Google; this city, which has a strange name for part of a valley, was the home of Shockley Semiconductor, the area's first high-tech silicon-based manufacturer
Mountain View
This singer/pianist's "As I Am", featuring her hit "No One", was 2008's No. 1
Alicia Keys
Captain Marvel gets some powers due to the Tesseract; others she has via an infusion of this alien race's blood thanks to Yon-Rogg
Kree
Robert Burns wrote, "Liberty's in every blow, let us" this, meaning succeed at all costs
do or die
It was late but my film major roommate had to watch this Hitchcock "you kill my dad, I kill your wife" classic & I got sucked in
Strangers on a Train
Graduate school is a great route & my alma mater the Wharton School of Business also has alumni like J. Presper Eckert, who around 1950 designed this first U.S. commercial computer--OK, Eckert dropped out, but that's part of some people's process too
UNIVAC