TAKING THE DRIVING TEST
This state agency, the DMV for short, administers the test
the Department of Motor Vehicles
On some journeys, this artificial waterway can save ships 8,000 nautical miles
the Panama Canal
2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape
force quit
Let's chill at the New York public one; it has 92 locations & more than 55 million items, including DVDs
the library
"Home, home on the range, where" these play
the deer and the antelope
This alliterative method to get your car alongside the curb just might be on the test
parallel parking
There are 35-foot-tall replicas of Heinz ketchup bottles at Heinz Field in this U.S. city
Pittsburgh
Meaning overhyped, this word suggests a grilled meat sandwich without anything inside it
a nothingburger
Be it Bondi in Sydney or Redondo in Cali, it's always a fun day at this geographic feature
the beach
"O beautiful for spacious skies..."
for amber waves of grain
To take the test in most states, you'll need this proof of financial responsibility in case anything goes wrong
Insurance
Lieutenant Joseph Ives gave this name to a brilliantly colored Arizona desert, now partly within Petrified Forest National Park
the Painted Desert
It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique
a dad bod
Sometimes it's fun to relax at home with your pals & listen to hits like "Natural" & "Believer" by this beastly band
Imagine Dragons
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when..."
skies are gray
Mirrors aren't enough--look over your shoulder to check these areas before changing lanes
blind spots
Confederation Bridge connects New Brunswick with this Canadian province
Prince Edward Island
Double-talk way of saying something or someone is insane or beyond understanding
cray-cray
In the '80s, teen gamers hung in arcades to see ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde chase this guy around a maze
Pac-Man
"Doe, a deer, a female deer; ray, a drop of golden sun; me..."
a name I call myself
Failing to give this 3-word clearance to pedestrians can be an automatic failure
right of way
This South African city was the capital of the Transvaal
Pretoria
A 2018 conference on computational linguistics included 4 papers on detection of this untrue stuff you read & hear
fake news
Nowadays, teen gamers hang using voice & text chat on this app with a name meaning strife or lack of harmony
Discord
"Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine..."
you are lost and gone forever, oh my darling Clementine