U.S.A.
(Rachel Dratch presents the clue.) In April 2025, I was on hand to help kick off the 250th anniversary celebration of the start of the American Revolution & this first battle, which took place in my hometown
Lexington
An exposition of average quality
A fair fair
Brahms was just one composer of this type of piece with a name from the French for "small" & also a dance
a minuet
Nonstop watching of the nearly 9 hours across the 1972, '74 & '90 parts of this franchise is an offer you can't refuse
The Godfather
Napoleon sent this woman the DM: "How happy I would be if I could assist you at your undressing"
Josephine
At Cleveland's Progressive Field, you can take in a home game for this team, formerly the Indians
The Guardians
A supply of broth kept on hand
a stock stock
Before his death at 31, Schubert composed 600 songs called these in German
Lieder
It takes a while before Cap picks up & wields Mjolnir in this film, but as it runs about 3 hours, Steve had some time (on a few levels)
Avengers: Endgame
She met her future hubby in Buenos Aires at an earthquake relief fundraiser in 1944
Eva Perón
Escaping from this Battleship on Dec. 7, 1941, Lauren Bruner became the last man to be interred among its wreckage, in 2019
the U.S.S. Arizona
A tally of European noblemen
A count count
Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" is a set of this type of composition, named for the time of day mentioned
a nocturne
The only best picture Oscar winner to have a hyphen in its title was this 3 1/2-hour 1959 epic
Ben-Hur
This Founding Father could no longer say "It wasn't me" after he detailed his affair with Maria Reynolds in a 98-page pamphlet
Hamilton
This Bloomington, Minnesota attraction boasts some 500 stores & the indoor Nickelodeon Universe theme park
The Mall of America
To flatten a gourd
to squash squash
Rossini would have called a comic opera this in Italian; his first, "The Bill of Marriage", came out in 1810
an opera buffa
At about three and a half hours, it took a while for this Oklahoma-set 2023 DiCaprio film to eclipse
Killers of the Flower Moon
This RKO investor & political patriarch had a torrid romance with movie star Gloria Swanson
Joseph Kennedy
Cheryl Strayed famously hiked this National Scenic Trail that extends 2,650 miles through California, Oregon & Washington
the Pacific Crest Trail
The warm-hearted type
the kind kind
Chopin was famed for his "heroic" one of these, named for the country of his birth
the polonaise
Could this 1971 film about Jewish peasants in Russia have been shorter? Maybe, but when you have Topol, you just gotta go 3 hours!
Fiddler on the Roof
On April 5, 1953 the Atlanta Daily World announced the engagement of this pair who met in Boston
Coretta Scott & Martin Luther King