Around the Atlantic
Layers
It's A Bird! It's A Plane!
At the Tiny Desk Concert
Later, Dude
400

20 degrees east longitude is the arbitrarily chosen boundary between the Atlantic & this body of water.

What is the Indian/Southern Ocean?

400

The excavated layers of this ancient city have been numbered I through IX, with VI possibly being from the Homeric Age.

What is Troy?
400

The F-16 has the alliterative name "Fighting" this speedy type of raptor.

What is Falcon?

400

This woman + The Machine performed "Ship To Wreck" from their album "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful".

What is Florence?

400

When you're eager either to leave or to hop on your Pogo stick, you might say "gotta" this.

What is bounce?

800

Icebergs are common in the Davis Strait, which runs between Baffin Island & this even bigger island.

What is Greenland?

800

The layers of a company's hierarchy appear in this type of chart, a term popularized in the early 1900s by Willard C. Brinton.

What is an org. chart?

800

This Grumman & amphibious plane, essential to the defenders of Bataan, is not named for an amphibian, but for a water bird.

What is the Duck?

800

Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, Jon Batiste & Trombone Shorty all hail from this "Crescent City" & showcased bounce hits.

What is New Orleans?

800

A British way of saying goodbye is this, which sounds like a single piece of a circular General Mills cereal.

What is cheerio?

1200

The city of Colón is this country's major Atlantic port.

What is Panama?

1200

It's the MD in MDA, an agency working to create a layered system to keep foreign enemies from striking America from afar.

What is Missile Defense?

1200

In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this.

What is he had no engine power at all?

1200

The "T" on the 2014 performance of this future winner on "The Masked Singer" is that he sang "Buy U A Drank" sans Auto-Tune.

What is T-Pain?

1200

At a White House correspondents' dinner, Pres. Obama said goodbye with one of these actions that could have hurt the equipment.

What is drop the mic?

1600

This river flows into the Atlantic in a giant delta that begins about 400 miles southeast of Caracas.

What is the Orinoco?
1600

This outermost layer of the Sun can't be seen with the naked eye, unless you use an instrument that adds -graph to the end of the word.

What is corona?, or what is wait for an eclipse?

1600

70 years after Louis Blériot first did it, the human-powered Gossamer Albatross flew across this body of water in 1979.

What is the English Channel?

1600

This Motown legend played "The Tears Of A Clown" & "Cruisin'" during his Tiny Desk Concert.

What is Smokey Robinson?

1600

This word used for wishing someone well on their upcoming journey sounds like it could be Thor's time in a sprint.

What is godspeed?

2000

Ponta Delgada on São Miguel is the capital of this island group that's about 1,000 miles west of Lisbon.

What is the Arozes?
2000

This "wall" that protects your internal organs has 9 layers, including muscles & connective tissue called fascia.

What is the abdominal wall?

2000

During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing.

What is Nightingale?

2000

This acerbic songwriter sang about "Putin puttin' his pants on one leg at a time”.

Who is Randy Newman?

2000

As this 8-letter word can mean "goodbye forever" in Japan, most Japanese people don't use it that often.

What is sayonara?