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This state contains the longest stretch of historic Route 66
What is New Mexico?
To cook food slowly in a liquid at a temperature just below boiling
What is simmer?
Meaning a stretcher on wheels you see at a hospital, it once referred to a kind of taxi cab
What is gurney?
This oldest college in the nation is a preferential favorite for medicine, law, and government
What is Harvard?
Perched high in the Andes Mountains of Peru, this famous Incan citadel was built around the year 1450
What is Machu Picchu?
This interstate highway is the longest north-south route, stretching from border to border from Canada to Mexico
What is Interstate 5?
This thickener is made from equal parts cooked fat and flour
What is roux?
This hospital department is often called the "L&D" unit
What is Labor and Delivery?
This term describes a former student who attended a specific college or university
What is an alumnus/alumna?
Standing 98 feet tall, the Art Deco "Christ the Redeemer" statue watches over this South American city
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This U.S. President signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to create the Interstate System
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
A small, narrow knife used mainly for peeling and trimming fruits and vegetables
What is a paring knife?
From the French for "to sort," this process prioritizes hospital patients based on severity
What is triage?
Located in Annapolis, Maryland, this institution is the second-oldest of the five U.S. service academies
What is the United States Naval Academy?
Stretching over 1,400 miles, this coral reef system off the coast of Australia is the largest living structure on Earth
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This standard color is used for regulatory signs, such as speed limits and do not enter indicators
What is white?
The transfer of harmful bacteria from one food or surface to another
What is cross-contamination?
Hospitals use this color-coded phrase over the loudspeaker to signal a cardiac arrest
What is Code Blue?
This specialized, free-tuition college in New York City requires all students to major in music, dance, or drama
What is the Juilliard School?
This 180-foot freestanding bell tower in Italy began leaning during construction in the 12th century due to soft subsoil
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
This famous German highway network has no federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles
What is the Autobahn?
This expensive spice consists of the vibrant red stigmas harvested by hand from a specific crocus flower
What is saffron/
In hospital charts, the abbreviation "Fx" stands for this painful bone issue
What is fracture?
This 14th-century Italian poet's name is shared with a famous university in Indiana known for its "Fighting Irish"
What is Notre Dame?
Located in the western Pacific Ocean, this crescent-shaped crescent trench holds the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth
What is the Mariana Trench?