Jeopardy #8489

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Neither this Portuguese explorer nor his flagship the Trinidad completed his circumnavigation of the globe

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Seen here, he became Aztec emperor in 1502

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Pope Sixtus V promised Philip II one million golden ducats to support this fleet

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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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The day that Henry VIII married Catherine Howard, July 28, 1540, this chief advisor to the king was executed

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A bit under half the states offer SDR, short for same-day this, often Election Day

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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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(Here is Dr.Kate Rubins who has spent a total of 300 days in space.) Astronauts are able to vote from the ISS, including me in the 2016 election; my ballot was encrypted & transmitted to a county clerk in this city, where Mission Control is

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Bringing Sunday churchgoers to cast their votes after services is rhymingly called these "to the polls"

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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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Dr. Crane, on the radio

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Mr. Payne, played by the funny Mr. Lawrence

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Mr. Berkman, a hit man who becomes Mr. Block, an actor

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Mr. Read, an 8-year-old aardvark

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Ms. Findlay, Edith Bunker's cousin

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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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The history of this jar dates to a patent filed on Nov. 30, 1858 for "improvement in screw-neck bottles"

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In chemistry, types of these containers include Florence, Schlenk & Erlenmeyer

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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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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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A young man living alone was "batching", from this noun

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Barnacles & blinkers were these vision aids

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If someone said you had beetle-crushers, it meant big these body parts

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A heavy drinker with a red nose was this naval bigwig "of the red"

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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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NPR teamed up with "Frontline" to report on how this industry failed to protect workers from black lung & "deadly dust"

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Audie Cornish & Ailsa Chang are among the hosts of this afternoon news program

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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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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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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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Disaster on top of disaster: when one of these hit South Texas in 1967, its thunderstorms spun off more than 100 tornadoes

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The long, narrow strip of the central U.S. plain seen here is known by this 2-word name

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Tornadoes destroy wind speed instruments, so meteorologists use mobile radar named for this Austrian to get the same effect

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It's the alliterative 2-word term for the type of demonic little twister seen here

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April 3, 1974 saw 7 tornadoes from Alabama to Indiana max out at F5 on this scale of storm intensity

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"The Case of the Lazy Lover" by Erle Stanley Gardner finds this defense lawyer dealing with a missing witness, forgery... & murder!

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In 1902 this novelist killed Sir Charles Baskerville in book form

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A real unsolved & brutal killing in 1947 Los Angeles haunts this "colorful" James Ellroy novel

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A body is found on a bridge in 1896 New York in this Caleb Carr novel whose title is an old term for a psychiatrist

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When it comes to hard-boiled murder & Frank Chambers icing a dame's husband, this 1934 James M. Cain novel always delivers

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When followed by "down", this clothing accessory means "to eat quickly"

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Railway job meaning to skillfully make sure of a certain outcome

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Disappears, like "The Lady" does in a Hitchcock film title

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This 6-letter verb means "to shun", though it sounds like it means to chomp on something

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As a verb, this piece of furniture means "to express indirectly", as with a threat

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The answer is... in 2018 this K-pop band learned the "Answer: Love Myself"

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A trip to a Japanese disco inspired this Billy Idol hit about "the floors of Tokyo"

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Seen here, she had a 2016 hit with "Hands To Myself"

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She & the Blackhearts had a top 10 hit with "I Hate Myself For Loving You"

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This 1997 Celine Dion hit was a cover of an Eric Carmen song

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Part of the Soviet Union until 1991, it's the largest of the 3 Baltic nations

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North Carolina's Research Triangle consists of 3 university cities: Durham, Chapel Hill & this home of NC State

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Brunei, Malaysia & this nation all have territory on the island of Borneo

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Qutang, Wu & Xiling are the trio of submerged valleys that gave this name to a dam completed in 2006

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Of South Africa's 3 capital cities, this administrative one is part of the municipality of Tshwane

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Let's catch a regatta at this Rhode Island city by Narragansett Bay

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It can mean "one who bites or pinches", as well as "a small boy"

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The Recording Industry Association of America got this file-sharing service shut down in 2001

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It means not affiliated with a political party

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A DuPont scientist developed this synthetic rubber product in 1930

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On Sept. 30, 1788 William Maclay & Robert Morris, both of Pennsylvania, were chosen as the first 2 these