Misc: What nationality was Marie Curie?

Questions

basketball the seattle ______?

what dire straits song says 'we're going on a holiday now, gonna take a villa, a small chalet on the costa del magnifico.....'?

as clean as a ______?

jingoism is over-excessive ______?

if you wanted to go from the u.s. to russia and travel the shortest distance, you'd go across what strait between alaska and siberia?