Pass the poi! It's the Hawaiian word for "feast"
Luau
Franz Gruber wrote the music & Joseph Mohr the lyrics to this Christmas carol
(Yes, Franz Gruber, not Hans Gruber)
Silent Night
In the U.S. Southwest: ABQ
Albuquerque
Each Space Shuttle Mission took off from this space Center in Florida, named for a United States President
Kennedy Space Center
Every March Madness fan knows this diagram of the sequence of pairings in a sports tournament
Bracket
This body part has to be staked to kill a vampire
Heart
In July 2011 this Space Shuttle, named for a fictional island, completed the final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program
Atlantis
This drink is used in the traditional Japanese ceremony of Chanoyu, which was a bi-product of Zen Buddhism
Tea
A non-executive provider of business funds
Silent Partner
Posner took a pill here, I bet a lot of others have too: IBZ
Ibiza
Considered the worst space disaster in NASA history, flights were ground for two years after this Space Shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after taking off in 1986
Challenger
It's likely no team will break the record of 7 titles in a row won by this West Coast squad from 1967 to 1973
UCLA
A ringer on the stake in this game scores 3 points; 50 points wins the game
Horseshoes
It's down in the (global) South: JNB
Johannesburg
In 1904 the U.S. government banned this Plains Indian ceremony, also the name of a Utah film festival
Sundance
In a 1969 address Richard Nixon characterized war supporters as this quiet, larger part of the U.S. population
Silent Majority
Head to "The Valley of the Kings" once you land: CAI
Cairo
In 2012 this Space Shuttle was carefully delivered to the California Science Center in Los Angeles
Endeavour
On March 14, 1964 he was the nightclub owner sentenced to death for killing the man who killed the President
Jack Ruby
16th century poet Giordano Bruno was judged a heretic & killed this way
Burned at the Stake
This ceremony at which school or college degrees are conferred is from the Latin for "beginning"
Commencement
Kevin Smith played this perfect-for-the-category character in "Clerks" & "Mallrats"
Silent Bob
DAILY DINGER #2
DAILY DINGER #2
DAILY DINGER !!!! #1
DAILY DINGER !!!! #1
More often than not, this Catholic liberal arts college in Spokane seems to play a big role in NCAA "March Madness"
Gonzaga
In the 1990s this beer company bought stakes in Mexico & sold the Cardinals
Anheuser-Busch
FINAL JEOPARDY CLUE: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
This department contains the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Secret Service & the Coast Guard
In the 1920s rabbi Mordecai Kaplan brought this ceremony for 12-year-old girls into the synagogue
Bat Mitzvah
The name of Bloc Party's 2005 album that sold one million+copies; Also something discreet found in a bank teller's area
Silent Alarm
East Coast location where Jaws was filmed, also the site of JFK Jr.'s fatal plane crash in 1999: MVY
Martha's Vineyard
You can find a burial plot in Arlington National Cemetery for this Space Shuttle's late crew that perished upon re-entry to earth in 2003 - Also the name of an Ivy League University
Columbia
The U.K. & France declare war on Russia in March of 1854, beginning this war, the first to ever be photographed
The Crimean War
*Be Specific*
This church organized into wards, stakes & regions was established in 1830 by Joseph Smith
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
FINAL JEOPARDY CLUE: COMPUTERS
In 2003 Dell made this computer part on its PCs an option; Apple had stopped including it on Macintoshes 5 years earlier