HAIL TO THE CHIEF
BURMA POTPOURRI
FLOWERS
BIG WORDS
FASHION DESIGNERS
200
'A famous 1924 campaign slogan was "Keep Cool With" this man'
(Calvin) Coolidge
200
'Some road signs for this product read:
Are your whiskers/
When you wake/
Tougher than/
A 2-bit steak?'
Burma Shave
200
'Chrysanthemum maximum is the scientific name for the shasta variety of this'
Daisy
200
'Big size for a shirt or intestine'
Large
200
'In 1997 she introduced her Lizfit pants, which feature innovative side clips to adjust the waistline'
Liz Claiborne
400
'His middle name was Gamaliel'
Warren G. Harding
400
'In the '30s the Burma Road was built to move supplies from Burma into this country'
China
400
'A Rogers & Hammerstein song describes it as "Small and white, clean and bright"'
Edelweiss
400
'Word for a 90-pound schnauzer or a 220-pound panda'
Giant
400
'You could call this Algerian-born designer the "saint" of French fashion'
Yves Saint Laurent
600
'He was the 27th president & the 10th Supreme Court Chief Justice'
William Howard Taft
600
'In the 1934 book "Burmese Days", this "Animal Farm" author told of his days in the Indian Imperial Police'
George Orwell (Eric Blair)
600
'These tall flowers are grown for their polly seeds'
Sunflowers
600
'Brand name of garbage bags now marketed by Tenneco'
Hefty
600
'One glance at this Gorgon could turn men into stone, but she's a favorite design motif of Versace'
Medusa
800
'Since his father died before he was born, his uncle Sardis Birchard helped raise him'
Rutherford B. Hayes
800
'This advisor to Burma's first premier, U Nu, later became a U.N. Secretary-General'
U Thant
800
'One legend says this flower derives its name from a drowning knight's last words to his beloved'
Forget-me-not
800
'A recent study says 37.5% of New Orleans adults are 20% overweight, qualifying them as this'
Obese
800
'Yes, sir, this Beatle's daughter Stella is the new chief designer for the house of Chloe'
Paul McCartney
1000
'He was the last of 3 men to serve as president in 1881'
Chester A. Arthur
1000
'When Burma became Myanmar in 1989, this city became Yangon'
Rangoon
1000
'Nicknamed the "Flower City", Rochester, N.Y. sponsors a May festival of these fragrant purple flowers'
Lilacs
1000
'Adjective derived from the name of a Rabelais title character'
Gargantuan
1000
'Isaac Mizrahi appeared as himself on the May 6, 1997 3-D episode of this Michael J. Fox sitcom'
Spin City
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