Prefixes
American Histor "e"
Chemical Element Pairs
Time for "T"
Official U.S. State Symbols
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This thoroughly modern prefix means "one thousandth".
What is milli?
100
This 1863 document says, "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves... henceforeward shall be, free".
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
The 2 that are the components of rust.
What are iron and oxygen?
100
These small pincers are used to remove splinters or hair.
What is tweezers?
100
In 2007, Texas adopted this as its official state footware.
What are cowboy boots?
200
Meaning "between", it comes before "section" & "galactic".
What is inter?
200
Ben Franklin, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson chose this motto for the Great Seal of the United States.
What is E Pluribus Unum?
200
The first 2 transuranium elements.
What is neptunium and plutonium?
200
It's a newspaper concentrating on lurid news or whose pages are about half the standard size.
What is a tabloid?
200
Naturally, it's New York's state fruit.
What is the apple?
300
A prefix meaning "after" is found in this word meaning an after-death examination.
What is postmortem?
300
Some 12 million immigrants were processed through this 27.5-acre place.
What is Ellis Island?
300
Symbols Os & Ir, they are the 2 densest naturally occurring elements.
What are osmium and iridium?
300
It's a set of kettledrums that's used in an orchestra.
What is timpani?
300
It's Ohio's state tree, as any OSU football player could tell you.
What is the buckeye?
400
"Pharyngo" & "laryngo" both refer to this part of the body.
What is the throat?
400
Its construction began in 1817 & took advantage of the Mohawk River Gap in the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
They are the first metals on the periodic table.
What are helium and lithium?
400
This plant belongs to the genus Nicotiana.
What is tobacco?
400
This Alaskan dog beat out the Siberian Husky to be Alaska's top dog.
What is the malamute?
500
Meaning "height", it comes before "phobia" & "polis".
What is acro?
500
Congress passed this act in 1807 to deal with abuses to U.S. shipping by England & France. We still have one with Cuba today.
What is the Embargo Act?
500
The 2 that were discovered by the Curies.
What are radium and polonium?
500
Benedict Arnold and other traitors are often referred to as this.
What is a turncoat?
500
Indiana's official state river, it's also in the title of the state song.
What is the Wabash River?
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