On a British series, Highclere Castle plays this title house
Downton Abbey
It owns theme parks & water parks:
SIX
Six Flags
A football field, or a flat framework of parallel metal bars used for broiling meat
gridiron
The force required for a 220-pound running back to stop and turn upfield is about 450 pounds, per this man's third law of motion
Newton
Look out below; they're the group seen here in a satellite photo
The Great Lakes
Nick Offerman, plays Ron Swanson on this sitcom
Parks & Recreation
Company with armored cars for CIT (cash in transit):
BCO
Brink's
This steel-gray mineral is often used to make electrodes & crucibles
graphite
Hockey pucks are frozen before a game to reduce this motion-resisting force
friction
To remember the names of the world's 3 longest rivers, just say "nay", for the Nile, Amazon & this one
Yangtze
Jonny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch both play this sleuth
Sherlock Holmes
A retailer of casual apparel:
ANF
Abercrombie & Fitch
A wrestler
grappler
Golf's hottest controversy is over a type of this club with a longer shaft to stabilize your swing & nerves
putter
Until it made the news in 1961, most Americans were unfamiliar with this body of water
Bay of Pigs
In 2013 Jillian Michaels returned as a trainer to this series
The Biggest Loser
The name didn't die with the telegraph:
WU
Western Union
Magnificence, or nobility & greatness of character
grandeur
A curveball curves because this is unequal on different sides where the ball's surface meets the air
pressure (or wind resistance)
The Cyclades Islands lie in this sea
Aegean Sea
Lena Dunham stars in this HBO series about 4 females in their 20s
Girls
Providing antivirus & firewall technology:
MFE
McAfee
We use this Latin word to mean appropriate seriousness or solemnity
gravitas
Geometric arch that's the natural path of a projectile; a narrower one helps free throws, Dwight Howard
parabola
This serene-sounding river of western Canada is named for the site of a territorial settlement between Native Americans
Peace River