'He was the first African-American Secretary of State'
Colin Powell
200
'Catholic and co-ed, this university has a noted law school'
Notre Dame
200
'We're on this kind of a tight budget, so we're serving the long, skinny potatoes of the same name'
shoestring
200
'The October 1871 fire in this U.S. city burned more than 17,000 buildings & claimed 250 lives'
Chicago
400
'(Jon walks in front of a parade inflatable.) The Macy's parade did not take place for three years during this decade--since rubber was in short supply, the balloons were donated to the war effort'