Enigmatic Theme #8 by KonkelT

Augustus Island and Booby Island are part of what chain of islands off the coast of Western Australia? (The chain was named in 1801 after the ruler of France at the time.)

What song (about a place with "those fishing boats with their sails afloat") was a hit for Roy Orbison in 1963 and later became Linda Ronstadt's signature song?

What 1950 film starring Ray Milland and the "gorge-ous" Hedy Lamarr shares its name with the English name (Spanish: Barrancas del Cobre) of a location in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican state of Chihuahua?

Win Ben Stein's Money aired on what television channel from 1997 to 2003?

What function, named after the winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Erwin Schrodinger) and a Greek letter, is used to model the density of an idealized point mass or point charge as a function equal to zero everywhere except for zero?

What Wikipedia entry (to which "Wild West" redirects) begins thus: "The [TWO-WORD ANSWER] comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of [FIRST WORD] expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912. A [SECOND WORD] is a zone of contact at the edge of a line of settlement."?

Known as M31, what collection of stars, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter is the closest such system to the Milky Way?

What is the name of the theatre and entertainment district in London's West End that is home, most notably, to the Royal Opera House?

What term, most associated with black holes, refers to a region in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer? It is also the name of a 1997 film starting Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill.

What trophy is awarded annually to the NHL's best first-year player? The most recent winner is Matthew Barzal of the New York Islanders.

What 1985 novel (yet to be adapted to film) by Cormac McCarthy, subtitled "The Evening Redness in the West", is widely considered to be the author's masterpiece?

What supernova remnant in the constellation Taurus (not Cancer as one might think) is designated M1?

What airline, founded in 1946, is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, which is the location of its head office and main hub? It has a loyalty program called the Marco Polo Club.

What landform between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean gets its name from the three states located on it?

What actress, who played April Ludgate on NBC's Parks and Recreation, currently plays the role of Lenny Busker on the FX series Legion?

Complete this quote from Superman III: "You gotta get that fire out in the East wing, otherwise you're gonna have a cloud of acid all over the [TWO-WORD ANSWER]!" (The missing phrase is another term for the U.S. Atlantic Coast.)

What Puerto Rican outfielder/DH hit 306 home runs in 20 MLB seasons spent with nine different teams? In 1992, he was traded from Texas to Oakland in exchange for Jose Canseco.

Appearing several times in the opening credits of a 1978-91 prime time soap opera starring Larry Hagman, what urban feature (and common postcard subject) includes Reunion Tower, Bank of America Plaza, Renaissance Tower, Comerica Bank Tower, and Chase Tower (formerly Texas Commerce Tower), among other elements?

What is the more common (and thematically consistent) name of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, which was held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992? (Follow-on conferences were held in Johannesburg in 2002 and Rio in 2012.)

The lowest point of elevation in North America is located in Badwater Basin in what desert area?