Andrew Jackson
Around the Castle
Crossword Clues "Me"
"S"-Words
Astronomy, from the James Webb Telescope
500
Grown out of beliefs supporting the common man and originally arguing that big business and banks hurt the little guy, Jackson and Van Buren created this political party
What is the Democratic Party?
500
Castles were medieval structures that protected these people, which made up the highest class in the feudal system, from attackers
What are lords?
500
Hydrocarbon (7)
What is methane?
500
Part of a tall, hardy plant, or a verb meaning to successfully trick someone
What is (a) stump?
500
Transcript: This photo from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows the universe at the beginning of the era of stars and galaxies just 300 million years after this event - going back over 97% of the age of the universe!
What is the Big Bang?
1000
Jackson first participated in the four-way race that was the Election of 1824 as the Era of Good Feelings characterized by nationalism came to a close when this president decided not to run again
Who is James Monroe?
1000
These laborers cut stone into the rectangular prisms units that make up the castle as well as the ones that make up the Egyptian pyramids (albeit in a different shape)
What are masons?
1000
Piece of wood that is 1/40,000,000th of the circumference of the Earth in length (5,5)
What is a meter stick?
1000
Hanging, water-carved cave structures made out of limestone
What are stalactites?
1000
The Webb telescope's first images were taken shortly after it reached the second one of these gravitationally stable locations beyond the Moon's orbit
What are Lagrange points?
1500
Jackson's Trail of Tears was initiated when gold was found in the native land of this Native American tribe
Who are the Cherokee?
1500
DAILY DOUBLE
Originally referring to a narrow slit in the walls of a castle for defenders to fire arrows out of to attack barbarians, this term now refers to an ambiguity in a set of laws that could be exploited
1500
Crowded municipality (10)
What is a metropolis?
1500
Support structure for buildings while they're built
What is scaffolding?
1500
Transcript: These two side-by-side images show two pictures of a cosmic object of this type cataloged as NGC 3132, forming at the end of the lifetime of the less massive half of a certain type of common object in outer space.
What is a planetary nebula?
2000
This Federalist who laid the groundwork for the American System helped devise a compromise to keep South Carolina from seceding from the Union in response to a ridiculous tariff on cloth
Who is Henry Clay?
2000
This term refers to an sliding door of iron bars that protects a castle's entrance
What is a portcullis?
2000
River in the Far East (6)
What is the Mekong?
2000
DAILY DOUBLE
Opposite of dense; spread out over a large area
2000
Transcript: This picturesque group of five galaxies that is best known for being featured in the classic holiday film It's a Wonderful Life is covered in the above image - Webb's largest image to date, covering approximately 20% of the Moon's diameter.
What is Stephan's Quintet?
2500
Instead of listening to his actual executive officers, Jackson gathered a group of his own supporters to make this group that he actually listens to by the means of his spoils system
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
2500
To infiltrate a castle, these siege engines were commonly used - their function was as a rolling tower that transported hundreds of soldiers atop the castle walls
What were belfries?
2500
The study of atmospheric patterns (11)
What is meteorology?
2500
A grim reaper's weapon; in a 21st-century dystopian novel, this term is given to the title reapers instead
What is a scythe?
2500
Transcript: This picture looks quite like some world-famous Hubble Telescope pictures, but with the Webb telescopes, things only get more clear to see in detail. What appears to be a cosmic mountain range from Earth was carved from this large formation in outer space by UV radiation and stellar winds from exceptionally hot, young stars from locations above the range of this image.
What is the Carina Nebula?