Dairy is big in this state that has a cow & a big block of cheese on its state quarter
Wisconsin
The Beastie Boys promised, "No! sleep! 'til" this borough! Even if you don't know the song, you have a 1-in-5 shot
Brooklyn
This Norse god kept an eye on his wife Frigg, who herself presided over marriage
Odin
Unable to capture Osaka Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu made peace--then filled in these, redeclared war & took the castle
moats
Recordings by Duke Ellington & Art Tatum featured Ben Webster's soulful solos on the tenor type of this instrument
saxophone
Telephone directories in this Nordic nation of 400,000 list everyone alphabetically by first name
Iceland
This American cook was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2000
(Julia) Child
In this title place, "I'm a doll but I still wanna party, pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend, I'm a ten so I pull in a Ken"
Barbie World
Not just a hamlet in New York, it's the site of slain warriors where the same unfortunate boar is eaten & resurrected daily
Valhalla
Aries was the Roman word for this device used to assault many a castle
a battering ram
"Violon" can start the name of this instrument, one of the 4 main ones in the violin family
cello
This Eastern European country's 2-letter Internet code is by.
Belarus

In 1606 Guy Fawkes went to the gallows near this building he had tried to blow up with 36 barrels of gunpowder the year before
Parliament
MC Hammer used Rick James' "Super Freak" in this 1990 Top 10 hit with a "tactile" title
"U Can't Touch This"
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A Jacobite force failed to take this castle in 1715, the ladder they brought turned out to be too short to scale the ramparts
Edinburgh Castle

It's a part of Irish music, American bluegrass & the Baroque concerto repertoire
the mandolin
At around 3,850 feet from base to peak, Cerro Blanco near the city of Nazca in this country is one of the world's tallest sand dunes
Peru
September 10 is St. Barloc's Day but is unlikely to have a parade, since St. Barloc was a well-known one of these recluses
a hermit
"911 Is A Joke" is a track on their 1990 album "Fear of a Black Planet"
Public Enemy
The 9 realms include Alfheim, home of the light elves, Nidavellir, home of the dwarves & this, home to us puny ol' mortals
Midgard
Now meaning to secretly weaken, it originally meant to tunnel below a fortification in order to collapse the walls
undermine
The gambang is an Indonesian version of this percussion instrument that's struck with sticks or mallets
a xylophone
3 African nations have Guinea in their names: Guinea, Equatorial Guinea & this one that contains the name of its capital
Guinea-Bissau
In 1879 in Mannheim, this inventor completed work on his 2-stroke gasoline engine
Karl Benz

2023 rap songs with movie title titles included "The Gods Must Be Crazy" & Ken Carson's recalling this Megan Fox-Amanda Seyfried film
Jennifer's Body
As "Watchman of the Gods", he could see 100 leagues; another skill was the ability to hear grass grow, for some reason
Heimdall

In the event of a surprise attack, defenders could quickly lower this heavy grate
a portcullis
Way bigger than a harmonica but with most of the same letters, it's also called a reed organ & was replaced by electronic organs
a harmonium
In 1974 under King Hussein, this country granted women the right to vote
Jordan
