Place Name Etymologies
In biblical city names, Bethel is Hebrew for "house of God" & this city big in the New Testament means "house of bread"
What is Bethlehem?
At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency"
What is "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"?
Allison Janney & Dulé Hill did some walking & talking in the White House on this NBC drama
What is The West Wing?
There's a shell-less mollusk at the start of this word meaning slow & lazy
What is Sluggish?
In apheresis, this is removed from the body; specific components are withdrawn from it before it's returned to the body
What is Blood?
THEATER:
A 1955 play review noted "restless Delta folk" & "lives as uncomfortable & insecure as the proverbial" this title
What is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
The name of this city comes from a French word referring to the river linking Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie
What is Detroit?
"I'll tell you something", the Beatles got No. 10 with this 1964 hit, "a force the likes of which pop had never encountered"
What is "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"?
In a group project, Gillian Jacobs & Yvette Nicole Brown schooled you from 2009 to 2015 on this college-set NBC sitcom
What is Community?
The mid-1800s gave us this hyphenated word for an employee who keeps a close eye on the hour & minute hands
What is a Clock-Watcher?
This force that resists motion through air can be thought of as the aerodynamic version of friction
What is Drag?
COUNTRY MUSIC:
"It was kind of a prodding to myself to play it straight", said Johnny Cash of this 1956 hit
What is "I Walk the Line"?
A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country
What is Nicaragua?
Can't you hear that boom-badoom-boom of her "Super Bass", making the list's top 20
Who is Nicki Minaj?
In 2001 Jeri Ryan & Tim Russ completed a "trek" through the Delta Quadrant on this title starship
What is Voyager?
Oscitant is an adjective that means doing this--& don't start, because I will too
What is Yawning?
They're the 2 bones of your forearm
What is the Radius & Ulna?
ARMY TECHNOLOGY:
Bearing the name of a man who died in Iowa in 1838, these began service in 1979 & today number in the thousands
What are Black Hawk Helicopters?
The name of this capital city derives from a Maasai expression for "cool water"
What is Nairobi?
No. 3 was this Temptations classic about a lover, "immediately recognizable from the opening bass line"
What is "My Girl"?
Rebecca Wisocky & Brandon Scott Jones are scary good as the dearly departed Hetty & Isaac on this CBS comedy
What is Ghosts?
Meaning inert or drowsy, it comes from Greek for "forget", like the name of a mythological river
What is Lethargic?
This single-celled protozoan moves by means of cilia & is oblong in shape; its name is from Greek for "oblong"
What is Paramecium?
WORLD FLAGS:
The flag of this Asian nation features part of a World Heritage Site built in the 12th century
What is Cambodia?
This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain"
What is Pusan?
At No. 5, this 2005 Kelly Clarkson Grammy winner, "the 21st century's greatest contribution to the pop canon so far"
What is "Since You've Been Gone"?
We're sanguine you'll recall Michelle Forbes & Tara Buck takin' in life in Loo'siana on this fangs-tastic HBO series
What is True Blood?
A prefix meaning "bad" begins this word for feigning illness in order to avoid work
What is Malingering?
This third largest of Neptune's known moons is named in honor of the numerous daughters of a Greek sea god
THEATER:
In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play
What is Julius Caesar?