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Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico relinquished all claims to this state above the Rio Grande |
Texas
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Catherine Oxenberg, a cousin of Prince Charles, played this princess twice |
Princess Diana
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The offices of this annual national pageant are at 1325 Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Miss America
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The color of this ring around the pupil is inherited |
iris
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Some of this cheese named for Parma is cured for several years before it's grated over pasta |
Parmesan
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Spain, in Spain (6) |
Espana
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This company was founded in 1852 to provide banking & mail delivery to the gold camps of California |
Wells Fargo
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When Vanessa Redgrave played this Scottish queen, Timothy Dalton played her 2nd husband, Lord Darnley |
Mary, Queen of Scots
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In 1960 this then first lady was given the American Heart Assoc's Heart-of-the-Year Award |
Mamie Eisenhower
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In this disease increased fluid pressure in the eye damages the optic nerve |
glaucoma
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The Sevruga type of this fishy treat is made of small, grayish eggs |
caviar
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Crewelwork (10) |
embroidery
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed this compromise of 1820 |
the Missouri Compromise
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Pippa Hinchley dyed her hair red for a 1992 TV movie about this commoner who became a duchess |
(Shana: Who is Wallace Warfield Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor?)
Sarah Ferguson
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This country's Bharat Ratna Award is given for contributions to art or science, or for public service |
India
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This vitamin is needed to produce visual purple, a pigment allowing one to see in dim light |
Vitamin A
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Cakes of this soybean curd should be stored in water, & the water should be changed daily |
tofu
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A "bald" chick (6) |
(Shana: What is an embryo?)
eaglet
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In 1859 this vein of silver was discovered on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson in Nevada |
(Ed: What is the Mother Lode?)
the Comstock Lode
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R. Chamberlain, Edward Fox & Anthony Andrews all played this man who gave up a throne for the woman he loved |
Duke of Windsor
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In 1976 this former Atlanta Braves slugger received the NAACP's Spingarn Medal |
Hank Aaron
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This common disorder is an infection of the small glands of the eyelashes |
(Shana: What is pinkeye?) (Ed: What is conjunctivitis?)
stye
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Originally, this "modest" English pie was made with numbles, which are deer innards |
humble pie
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A fragrance for all time (8) |
eternity
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This 1777 document said, "The stile of this confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'" |
Articles of Confederation
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Helen Hayes played the dowager empress of Russia in this film that won Ingrid Bergman an Oscar |
Anastasia
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In 1977 William Proxmire gave it to the Dept. of Agriculture for studying how long it takes to cook breakfast |
(Ed: What is the what....Fatted Calf? I can't remember what it is, sorry.)
the "Golden Fleece"
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This jelly-like "humor" occupies about 10% of the eyeball |
vitreous humor
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Souvlaki, a Greek specialty similar to shish kebab is made with marinated chunks of this meat |
lamb
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A "complex" woman (7) |
Electra
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