From the Video Game Manual
"Seven different shaped blocks fall down the game field one after the other"
Tetris
Book 2 of “The Hunger Games”: “____ Fire”
Catching
"Now that it's rainin' more than ever," Rihanna graciously suggests that "you can stand" here
under my umbrella
There's an Oscar for this, the art of camera work in filmmaking
cinematography
English chemist Joseph Priestley discovered laughing gas & in 1774, this other important gas
oxygen
"What was it like to bid farewell to friends and neighbors and set off on a 2000-mile trek by covered wagon?"
Oregon Trail
Set in Toknapatawpha County: “As I Lay ____”
Dying
This song opens optimistically with "Comin' out of my cage & I've been doin' just fine", but things go south after that
“Mr. Brightside”
It's a catalogue of recordings by a particular performer or composer
discography
Named for a married couple, it's used to power X-ray spectrometers in the Mars rovers
curium
"Warriors available to a player: Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Sub-Zero & Sonya Blade"
Mortal Kombat
A classic of Australian lit & basis for a 1975 film: "Picnic at ____ Rock"
Hanging
Avril Lavigne sings, "Take off all your preppy clothes, you know, you're not foolin' anyone" in a song with this adjective as a title
complicated
You have to know your codes & ciphers to be an expert in this
cryptography
Of the 3 main gases that compose most of the Earth's atmosphere, this noble one makes up about 1%
argon
From Rockstar: "Dead Eye allows you to experience the lightning reflexes of a gunslinger"
Red Dead Redemption
By Shirley Jackson: "The ____ of Hill House"
Haunting
Song in which André 3000 insists, "I want to see y'all on y'all baddest behavior, lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor"
“Hey Ya!”
Currier & Ives specialized in this printing process from Greek for "stone"
lithography
Alphabetically last, this element is used in nuclear reactors & medical devices
zirconium
From an N64 game: "Recover the pirate helicopter & get to the bottom of this. You are licensed to kill"
GoldenEye 007
Joan Didion's bestselling memoir of love & grief: "The Year of Magical ____"
Thinking
The chorus of this 2001 cover song kicks off with "Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da, gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here"
“Lady Marmalade”
This art of taking shorthand still flourishes in court reporting
stenography
Oak Ridge National Laboratory predictably has a webpage for this superheavy element, No. 117 on the periodic table
tennessine