Purple Reign
At its height in the 1920s & 1930s, the Purple Gang reigned over this large Midwestern city's underworld
Detroit
The ownership of Hans Island, located between Ellesmere Island & Greenland, is disputed; Canada stakes its claim by raising its flag there & leaving bottles of rye, while this other country puts up its flag & leaves bottles of aquavit
Denmark
In July 2019 the approach of one of these was announced only hours before it passed within 45,000 miles of earth
an asteroid
A kyber crystal-powered weapon plus baseball statistics analysis system of Bill James
lightSabermetrics
A ramp is one of these simple machines
inclined plane
Way back in the 19th century, the football team of this school that's now in the Big Ten was nicknamed "The Purple"
Northwestern
Spain increased controls on its border with this territory after a 2013 dispute with Britain over fishing rights
Gibraltar
The supercomputer Watson went on Conan O'Brien's show & irritated this sidekick so much, he took Watson to the roof & threw it off
Andy Richter
Sentient creature like Olaf or Frosty plus "the #1 kosher wine brand in America"
snowManischewitz
An earthquake happens when a slip occurs along this type of plane
a fault
It's the 4-letter title of the Deep Purple Top 10 hit with that "na-na-na-na" part
"Hush"
This legendary birthplace of Aphrodite has been in dispute between its Greek & Turkish residents for decades now
Cyprus
In a 1998 shocker, Jesse Ventura was elected Minnesota governor, becoming this party's first candidate to win statewide office
Reform Party
Small, oblong Chinese citrus fruit plus rhymed verse employed by Omar Khayyam & Nostradamus
A kumquatrain
Light waves with electric fields that vibrate in only a single plane have been this
polarized
Porphyrogeniture is succession by the 1st son "born in the purple", or while dad was king; this is succession by the 1st son born anytime
Primogeniture
A winter capital of its maharajas, this place is paired with Kashmir in the name of an Indian union territory
Jammu
This big landlocked African country was surprised to be added to the USA's 2017 travel ban, but was removed from the list in 2018
Chad
Gradual increase in the intensity of a musical piece plus a dental professional who specializes in the pulp of your teeth
Crescendodontist
Plane trigonometry employs the law of these ratios between the side of a triangle opposite an angle & its hypotenuse
sines
AKA royal purple, the famed dye named for this Phoenician city was produced during the Bronze Age
Tyre
Russia recognizes Abkhazia's independence, declared in 1999, but this country, in which Abkhazia lies, does not
Georgia
A surprise attack at these plains in Quebec in 1759 led to the British gaining control of New France
The Plains of Abraham
Insidious pandemic culprit of 1918 plus delightfully foamy Italian custard
influenzabaglione
All the planets orbit the Sun within seven degrees of this plane, whose name comes from an astronomical event
the ecliptic