Place Name Etymologies
Billboard's 500 Best Pop Songs
Two Actors, One Show
Some Lazy Words
Science & Medicine
Final Jeopardy
100

In biblical city names, Bethel is Hebrew for "house of God" & this city big in the New Testament means "house of bread"

What is Bethlehem?

100

At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency"

What is "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"?

100

Allison Janney & Dulé Hill did some walking & talking in the White House on this NBC drama

What is The West Wing?

100

There's a shell-less mollusk at the start of this word meaning slow & lazy

What is Sluggish?

100

In apheresis, this is removed from the body; specific components are withdrawn from it before it's returned to the body

What is Blood?

100

THEATER:

A 1955 play review noted "restless Delta folk" & "lives as uncomfortable & insecure as the proverbial" this title

What is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

200

The name of this city comes from a French word referring to the river linking Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie

What is Detroit?

200

"I'll tell you something", the Beatles got No. 10 with this 1964 hit, "a force the likes of which pop had never encountered"


What is "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"?

200

In a group project, Gillian Jacobs & Yvette Nicole Brown schooled you from 2009 to 2015 on this college-set NBC sitcom

What is Community?

200

The mid-1800s gave us this hyphenated word for an employee who keeps a close eye on the hour & minute hands

What is a Clock-Watcher?

200

This force that resists motion through air can be thought of as the aerodynamic version of friction

What is Drag?

200

COUNTRY MUSIC:

"It was kind of a prodding to myself to play it straight", said Johnny Cash of this 1956 hit

What is "I Walk the Line"?

300

A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country

What is Nicaragua?

300

Can't you hear that boom-badoom-boom of her "Super Bass", making the list's top 20

Who is Nicki Minaj?

300

In 2001 Jeri Ryan & Tim Russ completed a "trek" through the Delta Quadrant on this title starship

What is Voyager?

300

Oscitant is an adjective that means doing this--& don't start, because I will too

What is Yawning?

300

They're the 2 bones of your forearm

What is the Radius & Ulna?

300

ARMY TECHNOLOGY:

Bearing the name of a man who died in Iowa in 1838, these began service in 1979 & today number in the thousands

What are Black Hawk Helicopters?

400

The name of this capital city derives from a Maasai expression for "cool water"

What is Nairobi?

400

No. 3 was this Temptations classic about a lover, "immediately recognizable from the opening bass line"

What is "My Girl"?

400

Rebecca Wisocky & Brandon Scott Jones are scary good as the dearly departed Hetty & Isaac on this CBS comedy

What is Ghosts?

400

Meaning inert or drowsy, it comes from Greek for "forget", like the name of a mythological river

What is Lethargic?

400

This single-celled protozoan moves by means of cilia & is oblong in shape; its name is from Greek for "oblong"

What is Paramecium?

400

WORLD FLAGS:

The flag of this Asian nation features part of a World Heritage Site built in the 12th century

What is Cambodia?

500

This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain"

What is Pusan?

500

At No. 5, this 2005 Kelly Clarkson Grammy winner, "the 21st century's greatest contribution to the pop canon so far"

What is "Since You've Been Gone"?

500

We're sanguine you'll recall Michelle Forbes & Tara Buck takin' in life in Loo'siana on this fangs-tastic HBO series

What is True Blood?

500

A prefix meaning "bad" begins this word for feigning illness in order to avoid work

What is Malingering?

500

This third largest of Neptune's known moons is named in honor of the numerous daughters of a Greek sea god

What is Nereid?
500

THEATER:

In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play

What is Julius Caesar?

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