_______ is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.
Pizza
A _________ is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances.
Landmark
A _______ is the ball used in the sport of ________. It consists of a rubber or cork center wrapped in yarn and covered with white natural horsehide or cowhide, or a synthetic composite leather.
Baseball
In the United States, a ________ is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.
Double/Triple points for the two "synonyms"
County / Parish / Borough
_________ are a type of shoes falling under the broader category of light footwear, that are easy to put on and off and are intended to be worn indoors, particularly at home.
Slippers
A _______ is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land _______, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name _______ is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.
Snail
In the history of Europe, the ______ _______ or _______ period lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Double points for both answers
Middle Ages / Medieval
A _______ ________ is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.
Political Party
________ is a cosmetic commonly used to enhance the upper and lower eyelashes. It is used to darken, thicken, lengthen, and/or define the eyelashes. Normally in one of three forms—liquid, powder, or cream—the modern ________ product has various formulas.
Mascara
A _____ or ______ is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, ______ have persistent woody stems above the ground. _______ can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height.
Double points for both answers
Shrub / Bush
A _________ is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics.
Dynasty
_________ is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
Tourism
A modern ________ is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.
Torpedo
________ is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.
Language
_________ comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of state, intergovernmental, or non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international system.
Diplomacy
A _______ is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.
Census
__________ _________ is a state in both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is the most densely populated state and at the center of the Northeast megalopolis.
New Jersey
A ________ is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.
Guild
________ are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas
Nomads
In physics, ______ is when an object changes its position with respect to a reference point in a given time.
Motion
A ____ drum (also known as a ___-____) is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language. It was added to the drum kit in the early part of the 20th century.
Tom / Tom-tom
In geometry, a ___________ is a three-dimensional figure with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices.
Polyhedron
_______ is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon. More than 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth is _______.
Basalt
__________ is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it. __________ propagate supersonically through shock waves with speeds about 1 km/sec and differ from deflagrations which have subsonic flame speeds about 1 m/sec.
*the word is not "explosion"*
Detonation
_______ is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.
Magma