Analogies
Sneak-in : Thief :: Criminal Trial : ______
What is a lawyer?
This massive compromise for the land near the Mississippi River in 1803 led to massive applications for statehood afterwards
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This system of biological classifications of living things is divided into phyla, classes, and orders
What is taxonomy?
DAILY DOUBLE
These two natural processes work together to bring down ancient structures; they start with the same letter but work at extremely different speeds
The three-letter scientific species name for the "beast cat/panther"
What is Leo?
Tire : Car :: Bedroom : _____
What is a house?
This massive war with seceded slave states lasted a little over four years during Lincoln's term as President
What is the Civil War?
The first word of the two-word scientific name for any living thing is this classification group
What is a genus?
The destruction of medieval castles often happened as a last resort to the attacking side in these events
What are sieges?
The first sign of the cycle, which starts on the same day as the March equinox
What is Aries?
Panama Canal : Pacific and Atlantic Ocean :: Suez Canal : ____
What are the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
This compromise of 1820 marked the southern border of Mississippi as the border for the free states and the slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
_______: The Louvre, the Met, and the British
What are museums?
In the American Revolution, the armies tried to destroy each other using this knife attached on the other side of guns
What are bayonets?
The southern tropic is known as the Tropic of _________; its opposite in the north is the Tropic of Cancer
What is Capricorn?
Disease : Spread :: Police Officer : _______
What is punishing criminals?
This expansion of America past the land of the 1803 land grant grew popular after the Gold Rush
What is manifest destiny?
_____ ___ __: Allies, Soviet Union, Nuclear Bombs
What is World War II?
Who is Vespasian?
January to February's symbol marking the middle of the winter has this quite watery name
What is Aquarius?
Tunnel : Digging :: _________ Building : Scaffolding
What is a skyscraper / large building? (While in the building phase)
Shortly after the Civil War, this ceremony in 1869 commemorated the connection of America through a unified transportation system
What is the Golden Spike Ceremony?
__________: Cleveland, Grant, Madison
What are U.S. Presidents?
To end off World War II in the Pacific, atomic bombs were dropped from the U.S. to these two sites
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The zodiac closes off with this sign, which marks artistic ability for those born in the month it occurs in
What is Pisces?