MAY FLOWERS
ITALIAN CITIES
KEMAL ATATURK
PHONETICS
FUN WITH COLORS
200
'Held each May in Ottawa, the world's largest festival of this flower began with a gift from Dutch royalty'
Tulips
200
'The locals call it Firenze'
Florence
200
'Kemal Ataturk was born in 1881 in the city of Thessaloniki in what is now this country'
Greece
200
'Speech sound formed by the active use of these is called labial'
Lips
200
'Before they appear on shows like Letterman's, guests are sequestered in this waiting area'
Green room
400
'On display in May is the spider type of this very popular ornamental flower, seen here'
Orchid
400
'Mussolini founded the Fascist party in this city, but keep it under your hat'
Milan
400
'In 1928 Ataturk removed a Turkish constitutional provision naming this as the state religion'
Islam
400
'Of the 2 basic categories of speech sounds, the one that earns you money on "Wheel"'
Consonants
400
'This card game is also called twenty-one or vingt-et-un'
Blackjack
600
'It must have been May in "Stage Door" when Katharine Hepburn said these "Lilies are in bloom again"'
Calla lilies
600
'Italy's motor city, it's gearing up to host the 2006 Winter Olympics'
Turin
600
'It's the city of about 3 miilion where you'll find the Kemal Ataturk mausoleum'
Ankara
600
'Put this on the wrong syllable in SYL-la-ble & you get syl-LA-ble'
Accent
600
'A chocolate brown color, it shares its name with a coffee flavoring & a port in Yemen'
Mocha
800
'Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With these May blossoms, seen here'
Silver bells
800
'Pass go & collect $800 if you can name this seaport city between Bari & Brindisi'
Monopoli
800
'From the Arabic for "ruler", it's the title held by the man overthrown by Ataturk in 1922'
Sultan
800
'It's a vowel sound that has a change in tone during a syllable; it also sounds like beachwear for a quick swim'
Diphthong
800
'This 2-word term refers to wage earners whose jobs are performed in work clothes'
Blue collar
1000
'This New England novelist died in May 1864, as the plant with the same-sounding name was blooming'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1000
'You'll find the International School of Violin Making in this city, once home to Amati & Stradivari'
Cremona
1000
'During WWI, Ataturk played a crucial military role in repelling the Allied invasion of this Turkish peninsula'
Gallipoli
1000
'In the words "fricative" & "spirant", the 2 fricative or spirant letters'
F & S
1000
'A small type of wasp, it normally builds its nest underground'
Yellowjacket
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