Reuters photographers won for pictures of this Chinese region's months-long protests
Hong Kong
French device that took a little off the top
(10)
guillotine
Snezka in Bohemia is this country's highest point
the Czech Republic
To the Romans, it was a distance of 1,000 paces
a mile
The fried chicken franchise "Los Pollos Hermanos" was a front for nefarious fowl-ness on this show
Breaking Bad
The Washington Post won for a report on climate change named this number of degrees Celsius--the critical increase for global warming
Two
Severe congestion on the road
(8)
Gridlock
Basilicata & Campania are administrative regions of this country
Italy
Cheers! An imperial one is .568 liters
a pint
The Hatfields & the McCoys were appropriately armed for an appearance on this game show
Family Feud
The inaugural award for Audio Reporting went to an episode of this Ira Glass-hosted show
This American Life
Sociable or extroverted
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Gregarious
The islands called the Azores lie about 800 miles from this country to which they belong
Portugal
The unit abbreviated MJ is used to describe the heft of extrasolar planets & other astronomical bodies--M is for mass, J is for this
juniper
With her mystical lariat, Lynda Carter roped troublemakers into shape on this series from the late 1970s
Wonder Woman
Nikole Hannah-Jones won for the N.Y. Times multimedia project named for this year when 20 slaves were brought to Virginia
1619
A small ape, like a siamang
(6)
gibbon
In Africa to the northwest of Guinea is Guinea-this
Guinea Bissau
In 2018, it was decided to retire physical objects, like the one seen here, as the standard of this metric unit of measure
a kilogram
A crime that wasn't solved is considered this, also the name of a CBS drama series that ran for 7 seasons
a cold case
The Music Pulitzer went to Anthony Davis for his opera about these wrongly convicted "Five" from Harlem
the Central Park 5
Pertinent to the topic
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Germane
The name of this kingdom just south of Tibet may be derived from Sanskrit for the "end of Tibet
Bhutan
The poise is a measure of this, a fluid's resistance to flow
viscosity
Tom Hanks & Peter Scolari starred in this 1980s show whose title punningly refers to close friends
Bossom Buddies