Name The Year: Al Pacino NYC, actor (Godfather, Carlito's Way), born.?

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The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's ----------?

Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words. However, Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been known to carry vocabularies in excess of ----------?

In one year, hens in America lay enough eggs to encircle the globe a ----------?

The woolly ----------, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost 16 feet high.?

The largest species of seahorse measures ----------?