SPORTS STUFF
In 2017 LeBron James helped this team get 25 3-pointers, an NBA single-game record
the Cavaliers
Martin Luther is said to have argued that 9 was the ideal number of pins for this
bowling
Noted accordianist Jimmy Stewart played a famous trombonist in this 1954 biopic
The Glenn Miller Story
Song mash-up by The Doors & James Taylor that says, "Girl, we
couldn't get much higher" & "sweet dreams & flying machines"
"Light My Fire And Rain"
A 2003 cartoon:
"All drains lead to the ocean"
Finding Nemo
Robert Wagner was the mayor when work began on this 16-acre performing arts center
Lincoln Center
Björn Borg's famous 2-handed backhand grip was perhaps a result of playing this winter sport as a youngster in Sweden
ice hockey
The pros play it on a 94-by-50-foot court
basketbal
Nat "King" Cole portrayed this "Father of the Blues" in "St. Louis Blues"
W.C. Handy
The first Top 40 pop hits for Billy Ray Cyrus & Blondie, no wonder it hurt so much--lucky thing it didn't shatter
"Achy Breaky Heart Of Glass"
2015: "I gotta... grow 3 years worth of food... on a planet where nothing grows... luckily, I'm a botanist"
The Martian
When companies first list on the NYSE, the CEO is typically invited to do this, which starts trading on the floor
ring the bell
Mike Pence called this 1986 hoops movie "the greatest sports film"" & screened it on Air Force 2 using his own copy
Hoosiers
Red Faber, Red Ruffing & Red Schoendienst are in its Hall of Fame
baseball
He kicked Elvis in the shins in "It Happened at the World's Fair" & portrayed him 16 years later in TV's "Elvis"
Kurt Russell
According to Hall & Oates, "they see your every move", while Billy Idol sings, "got no human grace"
"Private Eyes Without A Face"
2009:
"You're not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora"
Avatar
(I'm Geoffrey Canada.)
I'm president of a unique organization providing not just education,
but health care & social services to the children of 97 blocks in
this Manhattan neighborhood, from 116th St. up to 143rd St.
Harlem
It wasn't perfect, but the Dodgers used 4 pitchers to get this hyphenated type of win in a 2018 game vs. the Padres
a no-hitter
2-man men, 4-man men & 2-man women (!) are events in this winter Olympic sport
bobsled
This lyricist was portrayed by Mickey Rooney in "Words & Music"
Lorenz (Larry) Hart
A soggy No. 1 hit by Milli Vanilli stays soggy when combined with a song from "My Fair Lady"
"Blame It On The Rain In Spain"
2013, Clooney to Sandra Bullock:
"Nobody special? Somebody down there looking up, thinking about you?"
Gravity
This museum, established in the late 1920s, began with 8 prints & one drawing
the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Lexi Thompson lost a 2017 LPGA tourney after improperly placing a ball & then turning in one of these
an incorrect scorecard
Britannica's entry on it notes early Scandinavians revered the Norse god Ull as both a ski god & a hunting god
biathlon
In the 1971 film "The Music Lovers" Richard Chamberlain played this Russian composer
Tchaikovsky
Mash-up from Blue Oyster Cult & Debby Boone that says, "I'm living for giving the devil his due" & "you give me hope"
"I'm Burnin' For You Light Up My Life"
2017:
"I had no father. My mother sculpted me from clay & I was brought to life by Zeus"
Wonder Woman
In 1942 Fiorello La Guardia became the first mayor to reside in this home built in 1799 by a New York City merchant
Gracie Mansion