Science
In 2020, for the first time ever, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by two women, Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier, for their work on the revolutionary gene editing tool known by this acronym
CRISPR
The hunky astronaut in this singer's 2000 "Oops!... I Did It Again" video became an orthopedic surgeon
Britney Spears
They swept over the NBA, winning the title every year from 1959 to 1966
the Boston Celtics
A song by Sia says, "I'm gonna swing from the" this, the song's title
chandelier
An educator of higher learning & someone who admits to an infraction
Professor and Confessor
In 2017 scientists recorded ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, which emerged when 2 of these collided
black holes
For 7 seasons Meghan Markle played Rachel Zane on this USA Network show about lawyers
Suits
In 1776 this school gave George Washington an honorary degree as thanks for pushing the British out of Boston
Harvard
This No. 1 hit by Rihanna includes the apt lyric "let it rain"
umbrella
Advancement by a society & an assembly of representatives
Progress and Congress
For your next science experiment, you might create this type of environment, from a word for "barren"
sterile
Arizona Zervas, you don't have to put on the red light to tell us about this title woman--"all she wanna do is party all night"
Roxanne
At 4 South Market Street in Boston, you can find Faneuil Hall and this venerable market and shop to your heart's content
Quincy
Lorde topped the charts with this song, her first single
Royals
A manifestation of dissent & a struggle between rivals
protest and contest
At NASA, EOM means end of this--time for a cold one!
mission
Celebrating this film's Oscars in 2020, director Bong Joon Ho partied on Galbi & Bibimbap in L.A.'s Koreatown until 5 A.M.
Parasite
This 1997 movie was up for 9 Oscahs & took home 2--you got its numbahs; how do ya like them apples?!
Though quoted, the songwriters of "Eye Of The Tiger" didn't get credit on this No. 1 hit by Katy Perry
Showing great insight & to cause to become perplexed
Profound and confound
Trying to find a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury, Samuel Schwabe discovered a cycle of these solar phenomena
Sunspots
This Disney Channel series was originally going to be called "Alexis Texas"
Hannah Montana
This Boston neighborhood was renamed this for the light used to warn of intruders
Beacon Hill
Elaborate hand gestures are part of the dance that Madonna brought to the mainstream with this 1990 No. 1 hit
Vogue
An act of incitement & a gathering of clergy
Provocation and convocation