This week's question: Twelve four-legged contestants were disqualified from a camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia after it was discovered that they'd been injected with Botox to shape and plump the animals' noses, lips, and jaws. If a cosmetics firm were to release a line of beauty products for camels, what would it be called?
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WINNER: "Yves Sand Laurent"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pa.
SECOND PLACE: "Camelflage"
Stuart and Char Zola, Decatur, Ga.
THIRD PLACE: "Chamel"
Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, N.C.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Laurent of Arabia"
Tina Cramer, Mansfield, Ohio
"Middle Eastée Lauder"
Douglas Carasso, Seal Beach, Calif.
"DromaDreamy"
Jesse Levy, Burbank, Calif.
"CamelMAC"
Robyn Kupferman, Culver City, Calif.
"Spitting Image"
Shawn Thompson-McGarrigle, Hunting Beach, Calif.
"Beastie Lauder"
Kathleen Zama, Houston
"Dromedaryolay"
Dave Sharpe, Stoughton, Wis.
"Dermodary"
Michael Gossman, Springfield, Mass.
"Camelot"
LeRoy Gaintner, Paradise Valley, Ariz.
"Humpty Plumpty"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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