Bodies of Water
At more than 300,000 square miles, this body of water is one of the largest named for a real person
Hudson's Bay
This video game console was released in 2001
the Xbox
In 1964 he embraced Sunni Islam & changed his name (again) to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcom X
Scuba, for instance
an acronym
Negus is a title of Haile Selassie; Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus pay him homage with songs in this genre
Reggae
It rises near Moscow & flows 2,300 miles south
The Volga
"Managing an anxiety disorder can be difficult", says the website for this drug from Pfizer
Xanax
On January 2, 1975 Walter Washington became D.C.'s first elected mayor in a century as he was sworn in by this fellow Howard University alumnus
Thurgood Marshall
In 1825 Hans Oersted isolated this silvery-white metal
aluminum
A TV show about the workings of law enforcement is alliteratively called a "police" this
a procedural
The 100-mile-wide Yucatan Channel connects the Caribbean Sea to this body of water to the northwest
The gulf of Mexico
This great guy titled himself "King of Persia & Media"
Xerxes
DAILY DOUBLE BRUH
Serving under George W. Bush, this soldier was the first person of Jamaican descent in the Cabinet
Helen Reddy's empowering hit "I Am Woman" is often described as this type of song
an anthem
Doom is this 3-word type of video game named for how one sees through a character's eyes while firing
a first person shooter
DAILY DOUBLE
This Turkish strait that separates Europe from Asia takes its name from the ancient Greek for "cattle passage"
It's the second word of Coleridge's poem "Kublai Khan"
Xanadu
My book "Barbershops, Bibles & BET" won a 2005 National Conference of Black Political Scientist Award named for this sociologist who helped create the NAACP in 1909
(W.E.B.) Du Bois
A stroke can be caused by bleeding into the subarachnoid space that surrounds the brain from the rupture of this--a dilated artery
an aneurysm
Imagining the England lost WWII, "SS-GB" is a BBC show in this fantasy genre abbreviated A.H.
alternate history
A spot on this river whose name is Spanish for "arms" is remembered as the birthplace of the Texas Republic
Brazos
Put a white flower in water that has dye in it to see how minerals and water travel up from the roots to the petals, via this vascular tissue
xylem
This trumpeter's classic albums include "Kind of Blue" & "Sketches of Spain"
Miles Davis
The name of this type of place where trees are on display comes from the Latin for "plantation of trees"
arboretum
"Siembra" from bandleader Willie Colón was once this genre's bestselling album
salsa