PITCH PERFECT
Talk about Go Blue! Clayton Kershaw pitched well enough for this team in 2014 to win 21 games & the National League MVP award
Los Angeles Dodgers
This Hawaiian island had a Honolulu of a hot year in 2019; attention, shoppers at Waimalu Plaza, it hit 107 one day
Oahu
In a televised speech, he informed America, "I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow"
Richard Nixon
The highest point of Nepal, it's also the highest mountain in the world
Mount Everest
"Hot night, wind was blowing, where you think you're going, baby? Hey, I just met you & this is crazy"
Call Me Maybe
Early in the 20th century, New York City was being recognized by this nickname; later, tourists were told to take a bite of it
The Big Apple
CATEGORY: GAMES
Cricket, 501 & Around the World are games involving tossing these, perhaps in a bar
A hitter & hurler, Shohei Ohtani joined this "Bambino" as the only MLB players with 10 homers & 10 wins in a season
Babe Ruth
DAILY DOUBLE
Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida
Cuba
Lincoln's 1863 declaration making "persons held as slaves... thenceforward, and forever free" is known as this
Emancipation Proclamation
DAILY DOUBLE
From 1867 to 1918 it formed a dual monarchy with Austria
Hungary
"It's OK, he already in my DMs... Why are men great 'til they gotta be great? Don't text me, tell it straight to my face"
Truth Hurts
Filling in for someone who is known for doing a really good job? Well, idiomatically, you've got these "to fill"
Big Shoes
With no baserunners at all, a perfect game is this amazing feat, but even better!--MLB has had 317 of these, with just 23 perfectos
No-Hitter
On the map, Italy looks like it's giving the boot to this Mediterranean island, which was kicking around at 120 degrees in 2021
Sicily
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Before taking the road to the White House, he hit the "Santa Fe Trail" in the movie role of George Armstrong Custer
Ronald Reagan
Known as the "land of the Inca", it's also home to Machu Picchu
Peru
"I'm... classy, bougie, ratchet (yeah), sassy, moody, nasty (hey, hey, yeah), acting stupid, what's happening?"
Savage
Christian Bale & Steve Carell were in this 2015 Adam McKay movie that detailed the craziness of the 2008 financial crisis
The Big Short
The best of the best in baseball get the award named for this man who got the nickname "Cyclone", which was then shortened
Cy Young
In September 2020 it was a toasty 110 in this one of California's Channel Islands with Avalon as its only city
Catalina
A CNN headline said this man had taken "8,200 round-trip train rides" to Delaware
Joe Biden
The Maori were the first inhabitants of this country & today make up about 15% of the population
New Zealand
"She's got eyes of the bluest skies, as if they thought of rain, I'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain"
Sweet Child O' Mine
In a 1901 speech regarding U.S. foreign policy, Teddy Roosevelt advised, "Speak softly and carry" this
A Big Stick
This pitcher was quite the aged rookie in 1948 when he joined Cleveland, but he helped them win the World Series
Satchel Paige
92 at Kilkenny Castle in 1887 was long considered the hottest temperature in this island nation
Ireland
George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union spoke of a this "of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world"
Axis
Egypt's major waterways include the Nile River, of course, & this manmade waterway that opened in 1869
Suez Canal
"Chickity China, the Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick & your brain stops tickin', watchin' X-Files with no lights on"
One Week
Step right up, ladies & gents; from acrobats to clown cars, we've got it all inside this structure
The Big Top