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MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE |
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Neither this Portuguese explorer nor his flagship the Trinidad completed his circumnavigation of the globe |
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A bit under half the states offer SDR, short for same-day this, often Election Day |
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As one word, it's a small, flat trunk found in barracks; as 2, it's a shoe retailer |
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A young man living alone was "batching", from this noun |
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NPR teamed up with "Frontline" to report on how this industry failed to protect workers from black lung & "deadly dust" |
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Oklahoma is among states to explicitly allow posting a photo of how you voted, commonly known as a "ballot" this |
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Mr. Payne, played by the funny Mr. Lawrence |
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The history of this jar dates to a patent filed on Nov. 30, 1858 for "improvement in screw-neck bottles" |
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Barnacles & blinkers were these vision aids |
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Audie Cornish & Ailsa Chang are among the hosts of this afternoon news program |
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Pope Sixtus V promised Philip II one million golden ducats to support this fleet |
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Mr. Berkman, a hit man who becomes Mr. Block, an actor |
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In chemistry, types of these containers include Florence, Schlenk & Erlenmeyer |
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If someone said you had beetle-crushers, it meant big these body parts |
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NPR's Planet Money reported $875 buys 2.5 million of these automated annoyances, maybe to sell you on renewing an auto warranty |
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In the 1540s he wrote, "Finally, we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the universe" |
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Bringing Sunday churchgoers to cast their votes after services is rhymingly called these "to the polls" |
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Mr. Read, an 8-year-old aardvark |
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In 1954 neuroscientist John C. Lilly designed this tank to explore results of cutting off all external stimuli |
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A heavy drinker with a red nose was this naval bigwig "of the red" |
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Hold on, hold on... no, we won't reveal the name of this NPR weekly quiz show that debuted in 1998 with Carl Kasell as its judge |
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The day that Henry VIII married Catherine Howard, July 28, 1540, this chief advisor to the king was executed |
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Saying it was no longer needed, in 2013 the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of this law & its federal oversight |
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Ms. Findlay, Edith Bunker's cousin |
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The OED says this is a 2-word "box in which a young woman... collects articles... in the event of her marriage" |
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From a character in popular entertainment, a Peck's this was a man who didn't obey social norms |
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In April 2021 NPR's Fresh Air remembered this Apollo 11 hero who had just passed; he had called his solo Moon orbit "completely serene" |
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