TECH & SCIENCE NEWS
Using a type of quasiparticle, Microsoft said it created a new state of this for quantum computing
matter
This 1980 film inspired a sitcom, then clocked in on Broadway in 2009 with music & lyrics by Dolly Parton
9 to 5
In the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, the athletes arrived in a parade of boats sailing on this river
the Seine
This city was the center of the Italian Baroque with palaces like the Barberini, full of the family's symbolic bees
Rome
Obama began his bid for pres. 4 months after releasing this "bold" book subtitled "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream"
The Audacity of Hope
A Saudi investment fund's purchase of Niantic Games, known for this "GO", also brings with it a ton of user location data
Pokémon
This bouncy Lou Bega tune subtitled "A Little Bit Of..." says, "A little bit of you makes me your man"
"Mambo No. 5"
It's the longest river in Europe & the longest to flow into the Caspian Sea
the Volga
As seen here, Adam Elsheimer was among many Baroque painters to experiment with tenebrism, the play of these opposites
shadow & light
As president, Obama popularized a quote from MLK that goes, "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards" this
justice
A newly elected President Trump claimed some of Biden's pardons were invalid due to this machine, a writing implement
an autopen
At the end of this romcom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a meet-cute with a woman fatefully named Autumn
500 Days of Summer
------------Daily-Double------------About 2/3 of Venezuela's oil output comes from the Basin of this large lake, now greatly polluted as a result
Lake Maracaibo
Colonies got baroqued, too; note a church in Ouro Preto, a Brazilian town named for this resource found there
gold
Before transferring to Columbia, Obama went to this college in L.A. whose motto translates to "the west is nearest the east"
Occidental
Sharing a name with a legendary astronomer, Rubin from Nvidia is a new GPU, short for one of these
a graphics processing unit
------------Daily-Double------------Songs from this Broadway musical include "The Lees of Old Virginia" & "Sit Down, John"
1776
Australia's principal river, it forms most of the border between Victoria & New South Wales
the Murray River
The Dutch favored homey scenes & can't get more domestic than "Women 'bij een linnenkast'", "at" this; maybe Lowe's has one on sale
a linen closet (or cupboard)
On May 2, 2011 Obama announced that a targeted operation was launched at a compound in this Pakistani city
Abbottabad
Thanks to a therapy called Lyfgenia, Sebastien Beauzile became the first New Yorker cured of this hereditary blood disease
sickle-cell anemia
This song by Bob Marley & the Wailers says, "Don't worry about a thing 'cause every little thing gonna be alright"
"Three Little Birds"
"I" spy this 1,350-mile-long river that flows through the center of Myanmar
the Irrawaddy
Juan de Pareja, a former slave in the studio of Velázquez, painted a version of the Calling of this tax collector apostle
Matthew
This act passed under the Obama administration in response to the 2008 financial crisis had 2 New England pols in its name
Dodd-Frank