D's Mystery Theme #5 by AlexanderD

One of Bob Stewart's greatest creations is due to be revived this summer with a charismatic former football player-turned-TV host at the helm. What is the name of his creation, born from something called "The $10,000 Sweep"?

According to the Urban Dictionary, what can be defined as "the action of rendering any small to medium-sized electronic device useless" or "a basketball shot that hits the backboard and bounces off"?

Tokyo Dome City was named as such in January 2000. What was its prior name, a reference to a popular nickname given to Tokyo Dome?

What 1987 Michael Crichton novel features a naval psychologist joining a team of scientist to examine a spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean?

Neil Patrick Harris hosted a pilot for an American version of what British series hosted by Phillip Schofield?

Yoshitaka Amano named two characters in "Final Fantasy VI" after two characters in the Star Wars saga whose surnames are Darklighter and Antilles. What are their first names?

Name the part of the engine block whose displacement can be calculated by multiplying its cross-sectional area by its stroke, the distance its piston travels within it.

Ice Cream Jones was the mascot for what short-lived breakfast cereal?

At 11:44am on Saturday, October 21, of a year unspecified but somewhere after Barack Obama's second election, what descended upon the fictional town of Chester's Mill, Maine?

The die that comes with the game Scattergories takes what form?

Folding this figure will give you what?

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Now that you have the answers, the theme should be taking shape. What is it?