MARVEL
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
Facebook announced its stock ticker name would change to MVRS & its corporate name would become this 4-letter one
Meta
He's won more Super Bowl titles than any other head coach, but we're not sure it has made him happy
Bill Belicheck
A dark or melancholy feeling can be evoked by using this type of chord that flattens the third note of the major scale
Minor
From a radio he boasted on "Industry Baby" of having "couple Grammys on him, couple plaques"
Lil Nas X
The arc reactor in Tony Stark's chest had a core of this element, symbol Pd; exposure to it would later poison him
Palladium
Eric Adams bested Curtis Sliwa in this city's 2021 mayoral race
New York City
Go, Gold Bugs! Nope... yay, Ushers! No... far as we can tell, it's the only NFL team that got its name from Edgar Allan Poe
The Ravens
Many classic pop songs go verse, chorus, verse, chorus, this section with a connective name, then back to the chorus again
Bridge
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
Gray’s Anatomy
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
In 2021 this Canadian P.M. called a snap election; he held onto power but fell short of his goal of a majority government
Trudeau
An ESPN column said never mind rivalries or prime time, the first thing NFL players look for on a schedule is this "week" with no game
A bye week
"We Don't Talk About Bruno" employs this propulsive rhythmic technique of emphasizing unexpected beats; the name comes from a Latin word meaning "to swoon or faint"
Syncopation
My niece wanted to watch (again) her favorite movie about this superfast animated critter who got a dental makeover
Sonic the Hedgehog
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
He became the first openly gay Cabinet secretary, after getting the Department of Transportation job
Pete Buttigieg
Both Clemson & this S.E.C. school are in the South, have teams called the Tigers & play in stadiums nicknamed Death Valley
LSU
A rapid tempo to a musician, it's an exclamation used by a magician
Presto
Season 12 of this show was on at the gym & I watched Gigi Goode sashay on the runway
RuPaul’s Drag Race
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
The 2020 "Accords" named for this biblical patriarch were to normalize relations between Bahrain, the U.A.E. & Israel
Abraham
In Super Bowl 21 a Giants RB pitched the ball back to QB Phil Simms, who hit a receiver for 44 yards in a play with this "insect" name
Flea flicker
The person with this title is also called the first chair or first violinist & gets to play solos & might tune the orchestra
A concertmaster
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