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| A PRISONER OF YOUR OWN DEVICE |
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| ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS |
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| Natchez was an early capital of this state |
Mississippi
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| The story "January 1999: Rocket Summer" leads off this Ray Bradbury book of "Chronicles" |
The Martian Chronicles
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| I've lost hours on this site, the "leading destination for short-term mobile video"; fittingly, Kesha is a creator |
(Ken: Yes, I'm a huge [*]er.) (Colleen: Me too.) (Ken: And your dog, probably.) [Laughter]
TikTok
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| The NCAA trademarked this calendar phrase for springtime buzzer-beating, bracket-busting basketball |
March Madness
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| "Rafa" is the nickname of this winner of more than 20 Grand Slam titles |
Rafael Nadal
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| If you're searching for El Dorado, the city is located about 80 miles from Hope in this state |
Arkansas
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| This 1931 Pearl Buck novel became a Broadway play the next year with Claude Rains as Wang Lung |
The Good Earth
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| Sweet! I just downloaded the "Saga" version of this app with a confectionary name; not sweet: there are over 11,000 levels |
Candy Crush
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| Chicago is practically synonymous with this special type of culinary delight |
deep dish (pizza)
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| This Czech-born woman had a pretty good 1983, winning 86 of 87 matches & 3 Grand Slam titles |
Martina Navratilova
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| An aboveground railway |
el
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| It's estimated that there are as many as 70 streets in Atlanta with this fruity 9-letter name |
Peachtree
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| Protesting the Jim Crow system, Richard Wright's first book was titled this Stowe character's "Children" |
Uncle Tom
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| secretrickroll.com allows my annoying friend to create sneaky links to Rick Astley singing this song; I always fall for it |
"Never Gonna Give You Up"
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| First & last name of the woman in a tongue twister who "bought some butter, 'but', she said, 'the butter's bitter"' |
(Colleen: Who is Betty?) (Ken: More specifically?) (Colleen: [Shakes head] Mm-mm.)
Betty Botter
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| Mark "Eddo" Edmondson in 1976 is the last men's singles winner of this major who's from the country where it's played |
(Ed: What is Australia?)
the Australian Open
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| George Takei's 2-word catchphrase |
oh my
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| North Carolina has 2 national seashores: Cape Lookout & this other cape |
Hatteras
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| Even this Tolstoy heroine thinks it's weird that her husband & lover are both named Alexei |
Anna Karenina
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| With a name that is Latin for "eye", this company offers prescription lenses for its Quest VR headsets; I may never take it off |
Oculus
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| In 2020, it was back to Midgar in this game's "VII Remake" |
(Colleen: What is Finals Fantasy? [*].)
Final Fantasy
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| In women's tennis, 1930s star Alice Marble pioneered this 3-word aggressive style named for a way to begin a point |
serve and volley
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| "Special" is one type of this short form |
(Ken: Ed, you should have been there.) (Ed: I feel terrible.) [Laughter]
ed
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| To see the Crimson Tide play football at Bryant-Denny Stadium, head to this city |
Tuscaloosa
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| This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play |
Cloud Cuckoo Land
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| Companies convey offers via these "notifications", pop-ups on your device that perchance annoy |
(Ed: What are... [**]?) (Ken: Sorry, that's out of time.)
push notifications (pushes)
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| This group got a 2017 Lasker Award for providing "essential health services & reproductive care" |
Planned Parenthood
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| Nicknamed "Little Mo", this Grand Slam tennis champ of the 1950s was honored on a stamp in 2019 |
Maureen Connolly
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| COVID variant names skipped nu & this 14th Greek letter |
xi
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