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SBUX: It makes a lot of money but may occasionally find it challenging to spell your name correctly
Starbucks
Oxford is called "The City of Dreaming Spires", while this other U.K. place is "The City of Perspiring Dreams"
Cambridge
A task on a recent one in New York State was to draft a memo regarding sovereign immunity under a tort claims law
Bar Exam
The city of Erbil in Iraq is the capital of an autonomous region where the majority of the people are of this ethnic group
Kurds
The mitral valve opens to allow blood flow from the left atrium into the left one of these
Ventricle
This provider of Charlie Banana baby diapers is rated PG
Procter and Gamble
Back when it was Constantinople, this Turkish city was known as "Second Rome"
Istanbul
In the 1950s half of U.S. hospital deaths were followed by a postmortem exam, also called this; now it's under 10%
Autopsy
This United Arab Emirates capital with a 2-word name occupies an island first settled around 1760
Abu Dhabi
In 1649 William Harvey published "Two Anatomical Exercises on" this movement of the blood, which he had discovered
circulation
In May 2024 its BRK-A was going for $620,109 per share
Berkshire Hathaway
Looking down Capitol Boulevard, you can see why this U.S. city--whose French-derived name means "wooded"--is the "City of Trees"
Boise
These exams are required for many Ph.D. degrees; for a Stanford history doctorate, you take them in your third year
Oral Exam
The Taurus Mountains of Southern Turkey stretch from Lake Egirdir to this longest river in the region
The Euphrates
Hemoglobin in blood carries oxygen to the tissues & also holds 2/3 of the body's content of this element
Iron
Let's dial up this brand, VOD
Once gently funned as "Brisvegas" for its anemic nightlife, it now prefers "Australia's New World City"
Brisbane
To do your taxes, look for someone who passed this 3-letter exam first standardized in 1917
CPA Exam
DAILY DOUBLE
Halab is the name in Arabic for this largest city of Northern Syria, heavily damaged in the recent civil war
(question written in 2021)
Aleppo
Coagulation begins when these, also called thrombocytes, begin to aggregate at the site of a ruptured blood vessel
Platelets
AZN is this pharm team
AstraZeneca
With the hub airport & some of the most glorious beaches of the French Riviera, it's the "City of Angels"
Nice
Mydriatic eye drops do this to help in an eye exam
Dilate your pupils
For centuries, a terminus of the spice road of Arabia, this Yemeni city of 800,000 sits on the gulf that bears its name
Aden
When a waste product known as bilirubin builds up in the blood, this yellowing of the skin & eyes can occur
Jaundice