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A MAN: JORDAN
200
'British protests over university fees included an attack on the car of this not-young royal couple'
Charles & Camilla
200
'From the Arabic for "sign of god", it's a high-ranking Muslim cleric regarded as the most learned of the time period'
ayatollah
200
'The Order of the Nile'
Egypt
200
'This "maneuver" is the method of choice to use when a person is choking'
the Heimlich
200
'As president of this new private univ. in 1891, David Starr Jordan worked to attract eastern brains to California's wilds'
Stanford
400
'On December 7 this popular American political wife passed away in Chapel Hill'
Elizabeth Edwards
400
'This small scented pouch takes its name from the French for "little bag"'
a sachet
400
'The Order of the Aztec Eagle'
Mexico
400
'The body produces many of these, including prolactin & insulin'
hormones
400
'Advertising writer James J, Jordan came up with "Ring around the collar" & this airline "is ready when you are"'
Delta
600
'A volume of his bird art sold at auction for more than $10 million, a record for a printed book'
Audubon
600
'My gardener told me we don't need to plant; all my flowers are this type, from the Latin for "through the year"'
perennial
600
'The Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum'
Japan
600
'This 8-letter word for a collection of blood, usually clotted, comes from words for "blood" & "tumor"'
hematoma
600
'Pascual Jordan's 1925 papers launched this physics field that tries to explain the behavior of teensy particles'
quantum physics (mechanics)
800
'The Senate ratified an updated arms control treaty with Russia known as "New" this'
New START
800
'This term for a type of airship is from the Latin for "to direct"'
a dirigible
800
'The National Order of the Cedar'
Lebanon
800
'A transplant rejection problem, GVH, stands for graft versus this'
host
800
'This Irish film director based "The Crying Game" on one of his own short stories'
Neil Jordan
1000
'Laurent Gbagbo & Alassane Ouattara both had themselves sworn in as pres. of this African country on December 4'
Cote d\'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast)
1000
'From the Italian for "of a cave", this adjective today refers to anything strange or ugly'
grotesque
1000
'Unrelated to the one in "Harry Potter" , the Order of the Phoenix'
Greece
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) This occurs when the nucleus of a disk protrudes through the surrounding cell & puts pressure on a spinal nerve'
a herniated disk
1000
'This Atlanta-born civil rights leader was a key adviser to President Clinton'
Vernon Jordan