Homophones
To permit something to happen, or to project a passage.
What are Allowed and Aloud?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
What is Ukraine?
Fort Sumter blows, McClellan froze, and Savannah was in the throes.
What is the U.S. Civil War?
This company, founded 1848, has its headquarters sitting above Montpelier.
What is National Life Group?
This space in Bloomington, Minnesota is so large... it has its own zip code! (4 letters)
What is a mall?
Acceptable: Mall of America
The tallest structure ever created by these wood-eaters was 42 feet tall!
What are termites?
A baked good, or how the farm animals that made its ingredients were made.
What are Bread and Bred?
Claudia Sheinbaum
What is Mexico?
A U.S. conflict in the Middle East... wait, what year? Oh right, the one involving Kuwait.
What is the Gulf War?
Montpelier's sister city is Zapopan is this country.
What is Mexico?
It's as easy as cake! Just pour this into the baking dish after stirring. (7 letters)
What is a mixture?
Formicidae, these insects, can lift up to 5,000 times their own body weight.
What are ants?
Life Savers, or a certain type of pie with '-meat' at the end.
What are Mints and Mince?
Keir Starmer
What is the United Kingdom?
Three wars fought between Rome and Tunisia. Hannibal rides some elephants.
What are the Punic Wars?
This structure, which began construction in 1915, cost nearly $8,000 and was built over a 16-year period.
What is the Hubbard Park Stone Tower?
Acceptable: Hubbard Park Observation Tower
A 1984 single by Madonna describes this concept of the consumption of goods. (13 letters)
What is materialism?
These are the world's strongest insects and are known for eating feces.
What are dung beetles?
Something related to your voice, or something related to your hearing.
What are Oral and Aural?
Pope Leo XIV
What is the Holy See / Vatican City?
A couple decades of infighting between Catholics and Protestants in Shakespeare's day came to an end in Westphalia.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
DAILY DOUBLE
This first Commissioner of Aeronautics for Vermont has an airport named in his honor.
Who is Edward F. Knapp?
Stemming from the Latin roots for 'hand' and 'make' comes this industrial term. (12 Letters)
What is a manufacturer?
Bee-ware! Bees are known to be territorial, but these non-fuzzy cousins have potentially deadly venom.
What are hornets?
What are Symbol and Cymbal?
Anthony Albanese
What is Australia?
Started in Serbia and ended in a French royal palace.
What is World War I?
This Montpelier native's breakout recording, "Hymns for the Exiled," was released in 2004 attracting the attention of Ani DeFranco's Righteous Babe Records.
Who is Anaïs Mitchell?
This other term for aquaculture means farming the sea for plant and animal crops that are valuable as food or for industrial processes. (11 Letters)
What is mariculture?
Butterflies have chemoreceptors to do this with their feet.
What is taste?