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| This western state sent its first refrigerated trainload of oranges back east February 14, 1886 |
California
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| "Oh! What a lovely war" marked the film debut of this lovely actress, now TV's "Dr. Quinn" |
Jane Seymour
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| Steffi Graf posed in a bikini for this magazine's 1997 swimsuit issue |
Sports Illustrated
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| Venezia is the Italian name for this city |
Venice
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| This nutritious outer layer of kernels of grain is lost in refining but is found in raisin cereals |
(Reggie: What is wheat?)
bran
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| "I'm Only One Man!", as co-host Kathie Lee Gifford can attest, & he tells all about it in his autobiography |
Regis Philbin
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| On December 6, 1847 this future president took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois |
Abraham Lincoln
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| This "Dirty Dancing" star did some dirty skating in his first film, "Skatetown, U.S.A." |
(Reggie: Who is Kevin Bacon?)
Patrick Swayze
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| With scented ads for 4 of these, the February 1997 Elle could have been called Smelle |
perfumes
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| Famous for its pyramids, Giza is a suburb of this city |
Cairo
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| Helping the body use protein, the B6 type of this is as least half as important as B12 |
vitamin
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| You can read all about the way it was with this former CBS anchor in his recent book "A Reporter's Life" |
(Alex: And we have about a minute left in the round.)
Walter Cronkite
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| In 1956 Jonas Salk & Leonard Scheele said Salk's vaccine should eliminate this disease within 3 years |
polio
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| He had hair in his 1st movie, "Port of New York", but not in his 2nd released film, "The King and I" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Yul Brynner
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| A story on lower death rates from heart disease brightened a recent issue of the journal of this, the AMA |
American Medical Association
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| You'll find this highest mountain in the world about 100 miles northeast of Katmandu |
Mount Everest
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| Starches like potatoes are the "complex" type of these compounds |
carbohydrates
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| In 1996 this former Lakers center shared his love of history in "Black Profiles in Courage" |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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| This president commuted Patty Hearst's jail sentence & was instrumental in a Mideast peace treaty |
Jimmy Carter
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| The cover of its 1995 Hollywood issue showed actresses in their underwear; for 1997's, they wore gowns |
Vanity Fair
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| This country borders every other country in South America except Ecuador & Chile |
Brazil
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| Reputed to be aphrodisiacs, these shellfish are rich in zinc, which is crucial to testosterone production |
oysters
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| You'll find the largest aquarium & the tallest woman in this book that's celebrating its 40th anniversary |
The Guinness Book of World Records
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| Name given to the module that landed the first men on the moon July 20, 1969 |
the Eagle
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| Publications named for people include Forbes, Harper's & this woman's magazine founded by a man named James |
(Alex: Obviously, you guys are so busy that you don't have time to read magazines.)
McCall's
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| Montego Bay has been called the resort capital of this Caribbean island |
Jamaica
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| Antioxidants like beta carotene prevent cell damage by these products of oxygen breakdown |
(Mike: What is carbon dioxide?)
free radicals
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| Between his novels "Congo" & "Sphere", he published "Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers" |
Michael Crichton
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