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NUTRITION
HOT STUFF
200
'This state's seal features 2 cornucopias, 1 containing a couple of spuds'
Idaho
200
'Swimmers do it face up with their arms moving alternately over their heads'
the backstroke
200
'Ethel Skakel married this politician in 1950 & bore him 11 children, the last after his death'
Robert Kennedy
200
'Lots of folks enrich their supply of this, the body's most abundant mineral, by drinking nonfat milk'
calcium
200
'Blacksmiths were the original opportunists who "struck while" this was hot'
iron
400
'The reverse side of its seal contains the 6 flags of the nations that once ruled it'
Texas
400
'This game played on a board with 24 spear-shaped points may have evolved from parcheesi'
backgammon
400
'In 1997, a 63-year-old California woman made headlines by setting this Guinness record'
the oldest age for becoming pregnant (for having a child)
400
'Surprisingly, chestnuts contain this vitamin that's most associated with citrus fruit'
vitamin C
400
'15 seconds at 160° F. kills this bacterium that in 1997 caused the USA's biggest beef recall'
E. coli
600
'New Jersey's seal shows 3 plows on a shield held by liberty & this Roman goddess of agriculture'
Ceres
600
'It's the animal heard here:'
a humpback whale
600
'Miriam Weinstein & her husband Max provided this name for a film company founded by their sons in 1980'
Miramax
600
'This vegetable found in Eggs a la Florentine is packed with iron'
spinach
600
'A second after this hypothesized explosion, the temperature was 10 billion degrees kelvin'
the Big Bang
800
'Its seal was created in 1905 for a proposed state of Sequoyah encompassing 5 Indian republics'
Oklahoma
800
'Using this technique, a person can possibly control his own blood pressure & body temperature'
biofeedback
800
'In 1997 Brenda Barnes left the upper echelons of this soda company to be with Generation NEXT, her kids'
Pepsi(-Cola)
800
'Found in liver & poultry, this trace mineral filed under "Z" is needed for normal growth'
zinc
800
'Plain old water is a common coolant for this part of a nuclear reactor you might call the "fission hole"'
the core
1000
'A Seminole woman can be seen on its seal spreading flowers along the shore'
Florida
1000
'Nickname for the University of Arkansas football team'
the Razorbacks
1000
'She's Gwyneth Paltrow's mom, & she played Jonathan Silverman's mom in "Brighton Beach Memoirs"'
Blythe Danner
1000
'(Hi, I'm Richard Simmons!) Raisins & dried apricots are good sources of this essential mineral whose chemical symbol is K'
potassium
1000
'Forecasts on this planet called for highs of 800° F. & black skies due to lack of significant atmosphere'
Mercury