This league adopted a rule in 2020 that prevented teams from manipulating the game clock via dead-ball fouls
the NFL
The pericardium is the sac that contains this organ
the heart
Larry David remembered a tuba piece called "Frolic" he'd heard in a bank ad & that became a signature theme of this show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The item in the center of this nation's flag is a wheel of law called the Ashoka Chakra
India
Coming about 40 days after Lent begins, it's one of the few days when it's relatively safe to put all your eggs in one basket
Easter
In Sweden, a Christmas straw one is traditional; here's the 42-foot, 4-ton example in Gävle
Goat
BRANDS
With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949
In golf, the driver is referred to as this number wood
1
Hey--your epidermis is showing! Relax, it's just the outer layer of this
your skin
This actress, as Selina Meyer on "Veep": "I'm used to dealing with angry, aggressive, dysfunctional men. i.e., men"
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
The flag of this U.S. commonwealth looks like Cuba's flag, but with the red & blue reversed
Puerto Rico
This tool is used by artists to support their work; here's a painting by Rembrandt that shows one in the foreground
an easel
In Iceland, kids put their boots by a window & either get candy if they're good or rotten these tubers if not. Better not make fries out of them...
potatoes
With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949
Lego
In college, this basketball star was the first freshman named National Player of the Year
Kevin Durant
Because it resembles an upside-down tree, the whole system inside this pair of organs is sometimes called the "bronchial tree"
the lungs
At Comic Con with the cast of this show, Matt Berry was asked, "Have people started yelling 'Bat!' at you?"; yes. Yes they have
What We Do in the Shadows
Seen here on Alaska's flag is this star grouping, part of Ursa Major
The Big Dipper
It's the type of exercise Jane Fonda & Richard Simmons popularized in the 1980s; feel the burn!
aerobics
Japan keeps the holidays "extra crispy" with what has become a traditional Christmas meal from this chain
KFC
This British soccer club was truly fab in 2019, winning the UEFA Champions League
Liverpool
No butts about it--it's the 2-word name for the most massive muscle in the human body
gluteus maximus
Daniel Stern began narrating this '60s-set show in 1988; Don Cheadle handled the task in the 2021 reboot
The Wonder Years
The cross & sword represent St. George & St. Paul on the flag of the City of this, the historic center of the same-named capital
London
Fly high in style aboard a big, beefy A380 from this European company
Airbus
North of Quezon City, San Fernando is the "Christmas Capital of" this nation, holding a Giant Lantern Festival in December
the Philippines
Honus Wagner signed a historic contract in 1905 that saw him endorse this baseball bat with a Kentucky city in its name
Louisville
This other name for the voice box also ends with the letter "X"
Larynx
On "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", this actor seen here decided, "we'll go to my house. Or as Zeke calls it, Tiny Terry's Hobbit Hole"
Terry Crews
After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants
Hammer and Sickle
Astronomers use this 3-letter word to refer to a period of time equaling one billion years; to others, it means a really long time
Eon
Streets are closed to traffic as people roller skate to Christmas Eve mass in this capital of Venezuela
Caracas