THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS |
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NATIVE AMERICANS BY TRIBE |
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BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES |
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Currently the Commonwealth's official head |
Queen Elizabeth
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The name of this mountain range containing 9 of the world's 10 highest peaks is from the Sanskrit for "abode of snow" |
Himalayas
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An assertion to a legal right to something; you can also make a "counter-" one |
a claim
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Sitting Bull |
Hunkpapa Sioux
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A 1997 movie with Tommy Lee Jones policing aliens puts on a tutu to jete into a Natalie Portman film |
Men in Black Swan
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During an exam, your doctor will use drops to cause the pupils to do this, ophthalmologists' word for "widen" |
to dilate
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In 1973 the Commonwealth issued a statement calling for an end to tests of these |
nuclear weapons
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Spiked or not, this drink comes from a word meaning "five nectars" |
punch
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"Cross-" this is security for one debt that also serves as security for another |
collateral
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Geronimo |
(Joel: Who are the Cherokee?)
Apache
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1988 Dustin Hoffman film that definitely, definitely became the musical film version of "Don Quixote" |
Rain Man of La Mancha
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Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, can be controlled by eye drops that reduce pressure on the optic one of these |
the optic nerve
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It achieved dominion status in 1867, the first Commonwealth member to do so |
Canada
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Wise Jawaharlal Nehru was known as "Pandit"; if he'd done more CNN, 1 letter would have changed & he'd have been this |
pundit
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This effort to boot a juror can be peremptory or for cause |
a challenge
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Osceola |
(Mike: [Exhales] What is Cree?) (Alex: No. [*], but not Cree.) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Seminole (or Creek)
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Mia Farrow taking a pregnant pause in a horror pic segues into Tina Fey's ticking biological clock in a 2008 comedy |
Rosemary's Baby Mama
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Smoking can increase the risk of getting this clouding of the lens |
a cataract
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Recovering from years of strife between Hutus & Tutsis, it joined the Commonwealth in 2009 |
(Mike: What is Zimbabwe?)
Rwanda
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This 4-letter word for the plunder taken during war can also be a slang term for money |
(Mike: What is booty?)
loot
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A judge other than a chief judge at one of the U.S. courts of appeals |
a circuit judge
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Roger Moore 007 film that turns into another action pic with Uma Thurman as a killer bride |
(Marnie: What is A View to Kill Bill?) ... (Alex: That's it. You left out one important letter there, Marnie.)
View to a Kill Bill
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This condition usually caused by a misshapen cornea can be corrected with glasses or toric contact lenses |
astigmatism
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The independence of the dominions was recognized by the 1931 Statute of this London borough where parliament sits |
Westminster
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This Sanskrit word for correct law or custom is found before "Bums" in a 1958 novel title |
dharma
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Executive clemency can lead to this, reducing the severity of a punishment |
a commutation
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The horror, the horror at seeing a Coppola war film turn into a 1942 film where Bette Davis overcomes her domineering ma |
(Alex: Marlon Brando saying "The horror, the horror, the horror"--[*] is the Bette Davis film.)
Apocalypse Now, Voyager
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Allergies or infections can cause inflammation of this membrane that lines the eyelids & covers the eyes' surface |
the conjunctiva
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