FIRST NAME FLOWERS
The weak-necked tea type of this was bred with hybrid perpetuals to produce a more popular garden flower
a rose
Regarding this founder of the Holy Roman Empire, analysis of his left tibia shows he was "very tall, but not robust"
Charlemagne
Obama began his bid for pres. 4 months after releasing this "bold" book subtitled "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream"
The Audacity of Hope
2 friends inspired by the success of Scrabble created this wedge-fest with 6,000 questions in its original version
Trivial Pursuit
This type of legislation obligates an automaker to offer relief to buyers for defects to a vehicle over a specific time
a lemon law
The speedwell is also called this girl's name, the object of affection for Archie in the comics
Veronica
This 6'3" president loomed large in every way; to Tom Wicker, he "seems 20 feet tall--when he really measures no more than 10"
Lyndon Baines Johnson
As president, Obama popularized a quote from MLK that goes, "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards" this
justice
You can steal bills from the bank & skip out on paying rent in the Cheater's Edition of this classic game, because... fun?
Monopoly
From a Rudyard Kipling work, it's the idea that the strongest or most merciless in a society or group will survive
the law of the jungle
Resembling the garland of Greek athletes, the mountain type is Pennsylvania's state flower
laurel
The tallest current world leader is former basketball player Edi Rama, now a resident of Tirana & the 6'7" prime minister of this country
Albania
Before transferring to Columbia, Obama went to this college in L.A. whose motto translates to "the west is nearest the east"
Occidental
The times they were a-changin': by 1999, Hasbro changed this game's pink-&-blue-peg-holding station wagons to minivans
(The Game of) Life
In effect since 1951 & abbreviated UCMJ, it's the set of criminal laws governing all U.S. armed forces branches
the Uniform Code of Military Justice
Aurelian or trumpet is one type of this that you might grow in your garden
lily
This czar-turned-emperor was of "enormous height" & "unusual physical strength"; no wonder Catherine I swiped right
Peter the Great
On May 2, 2011 Obama announced that a targeted operation was launched at a compound in this Pakistani city
Abbottabad
The New Yorker once joked that this game's moral lesson is "Never apologize for your success, unless doing so sarcastically"
Sorry!
In Pakistan this Muslim code of religious law was long applied through its own appellate court
sharia
Author/gardener Olivia Laing says this flower, with the name of a fleeing nymph, was "the first plant I'd fallen in love with"
daphne
A queen at 6 days old, this daughter of James V was a foot taller than average for her time: 5'11" while she still had a head
Mary, Queen of Scots
This act passed under the Obama administration in response to the 2008 financial crisis had 2 New England pols in its name
Dodd-Frank
This ancient Chinese game is played with 361 pieces called stones
Go
Issued during the reign of Clovis, Salic law was the legal code of these people who conquered Gaul in the 5th century A.D.
the Franks