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    | This country flies what's known as the Bundesflagge | Germany 
 
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    | One-word title of Wallace Thurman's play that opened at the Apollo in Feb. 1929, closed, but had a "Renaissance" later in the year | Harlem 
 
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    | Before trying to make water on Mars in "The Martian", this actor co-created water.org to provide it on Earth | Matt Damon 
 
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    | In apheresis, this is removed from the body; specific components are withdrawn from it before it's returned to the body | blood 
 
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    | In 1905 this brother of Orville in his Flyer III set a speed record of 38 miles per hour | (Katie: Who is Wilbur?) (Ken: More specifically?)
 
 Wilbur Wright
 
 
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    | If I want you to call, hmu stands for this... say, tomorrow? | hit me up 
 
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    | The flag of the island country of Grenada depicts this spice, an important export | (Amy: What is pepper?) 
 nutmeg
 
 
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    | August Wilson got the title for his play about this singer from her song that became a dance craze, "The Black Bottom" | Ma Rainey 
 
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    | In 2021, he received his third consecutive Emmy nomination for "The Kominsky Method" | Michael Douglas 
 
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    | This force that resists motion through air can be thought of as the aerodynamic version of friction | (Evan: What is viscosity?) 
 drag
 
 
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    | In 1953 in an F-86 borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to do this | exceed the speed of sound 
 
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    | Someone sliding into your DMs is trying to reach you via these | direct messages 
 
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    | This Balkan country got the new flag seen here in 1995 & got this new name in 2019 | (Evan: What is New Macedonia?) (Ken: Sorry?)
 (Evan: What is Northern Macedonia?)
 
 North Macedonia
 
 
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    | Its last line is from Oscar: "And watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty" | (Ken: Oscar Madison in [*]... Turning over a new leaf there.) 
 The Odd Couple
 
 
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    | In his first TV series starring role, he played Secret Service agent Ethan Burke, looking for 2 missing agents in "Wayward Pines" | Matt Dillon 
 
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    | They're the 2 bones of your forearm | (Amy: What are the ulnus and radia?) (Ken: No.)
 (Amy: Radius and)
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 (Ken: Yeah, Amy switched the suffixes.)
 
 the radius & the ulna
 
 
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    | Seen here are a group of these aviators of Alabama in the 1940s, many of whom became decorated war heroes | the Tuskegee Airmen 
 
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    | Making an OTP, one true this, means figuring out ideal character matches | (Evan: What is profile?) 
 pairing
 
 
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    | Reflecting its commitment to national defense, Mozambique's flag bears this alphanumeric Soviet weapon | AK-47 
 
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    | Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer for a satire on Congress called this, finishing the Shakespeare quote "A plague on..." | Both Your Houses 
 
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    | In recent years this British actress starred on TV in "Speechless" & as Lorraine Finster on the revival of "Will & Grace" | Minnie Driver 
 
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    | This single-celled protozoan moves by means of cilia & is oblong in shape; its name is from Greek for "oblong" | (Amy: What is amoeba?) 
 paramecium
 
 
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    | A subsidiary of Textron, its planes include turboprops & the Citation fleet, which seats a maximum of 12 passengers | Cessna 
 
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    | Want to know if others are experiencing the same? dae is short for this question starter | does anybody else? 
 
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    | This island nation's flag is the world's only national flag not to contain any of the colors red, white, or blue | (Ken: With less than a minute to go.) 
 Jamaica
 
 
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    | Tony Kushner translated Brecht for a 2006 production with Meryl Streep in this maternal role | (Ken: [*] and Her Children.) 
 Mother Courage
 
 
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    | Seen here, this actress was the longtime lover of William Randolph Hearst | (Amy: Who is Marlene Dietrich?) 
 Marion Davies
 
 
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    | This third largest of Neptune's known moons is named in honor of the numerous daughters of a Greek sea god | Nereid 
 
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    | He won the National Air Race of 1930, 5 years before he & Will Rogers died tragically in a plane crash | Wiley Post 
 
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    | eli5 is shorthand for this expression, so use small words to clarify | (Ken: Years old, yeah.) 
 explain it to me like I'm 5
 
 
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