This once & future president of Russia was elected to the job after 4 years as prime minister
(Vladimir) Putin
The Grand Ole Opry,
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
Tennessee
In this informal session, musicians gather to play improvised music
jam
India
Hinduism
Asking for this vehicle that conveys the dead turns the category into a game of...
hearse
This Internet giant's IPO raised $16 billion in one day in May
The National Constitution Center,
Betsy Ross House
Pennsylvania
As a noun, it's something you chew; as a verb, it means to chew without teeth
gum
Algeria
Islam
Six-letter term describing the figure seen here
oblong
It turned out this Olympic sport was a racket as 8 competitors were disqualified for losing on purpose
badminton
The World of Coca-Cola,
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest
Georgia
This popular music of Jamaica originated in the 1950s & has elements of R&B, jazz & calypso
ska
In Denmark:
Evangelical this
Lutheranism
To steal livestock, or to cause soft sounds
rustle
These 2 states legalized recreational marijuana use
Colorado & Washington
Lake Bonneville,
George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park
Utah
It's the egg of a louse; add "wit" to it & you get a stupid person
a nit
Chile
Catholicism
It's the study of the patterns by which sentences & phrases are formed
syntax
From February to August, U.N. & Arab League envoy Kofi Annan tried to solve this country's civil war
Syria
The Exhibition Coal Mine,
Appalachian Lake Dam
West Virginia
It's a baglike structure in an animal or plant, sometimes filled with fluid
a sac
Mongolia
Buddhism
It means occurring in an abnormal position or place & describes a serious pregnancy complication
ectopic