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U.S. History Analogies

Can you fill the blanks in these analogies based on American history?
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Last updated: January 6, 2021
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Abigail is Adams
Hillary is Clinton
Katrina is to New Orleans
Andrew is to Miami
Truman is to Roosevelt
Johnson is to Lincoln
Geronimo is to Apache
Crazy Horse is to Lakota
MLK is to Luther
FDR is to Delano
Carl Lewis is to 1984
Jesse Owens is to 1936
Louisiana is to Louis XIV
Virginia is to Elizabeth
Puritan is to Massachusetts
Quaker is to Pennsylvania
Judas is to Jesus
Benedict Arnold is to the
Continental Army
Yorktown is to Cornwallis
Appomattox Court House
is to Lee
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Daniel is to Boone
Davy is to Crockett
1 is to Delaware
50 is to Hawaii
Dubya is to Bush
Ike is to Eisenhower
Oswald is to Kennedy
Ruby is to Oswald
Adams is to Washington
Aldrin is to Armstrong
1980 is to Reagan
2008 is to Obama
Jefferson is to State
Hamilton is to Treasury
Lieberman is to Gore
Palin is to McCain
Vivien Leigh is to
"Gone With the Wind"
Judy Garland is to
"The Wizard of Oz"
Bonds is to Aaron
Aaron is to Ruth
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Level 75
Jan 6, 2021
Excellent range of questions here, very good job.

Without just giving answers, could someone please explain what the analogies for Jefferson/State - ***/Treasury and Bonds/Aaron - Aaron/*** are referring to?

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Level ∞
Jan 6, 2021
Jefferson was the first Secretary of State and Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury.

Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's career home run record just like Aaron did to Babe Ruth.

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Level 76
Jan 6, 2021
I tried Shakers a.k.a. the other Quakers. Oh well...
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Level 73
Jan 6, 2021
They're not at all the same thing though.
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Level ∞
Jan 7, 2021
For one thing, the Shakers all died out since they didn't have sex.

Quakers, also known as Friends, are dying out more slowly. Although, checking Wikipedia, it would appear that 50% of Quakers are currently in Africa! So maybe they are growing after all.

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Level 83
Jan 7, 2021
To make the analogy of names more exact (and to avoid confusion with e.g. Judas the brother of Jesus) it might be worth changing to "Judas Iscariot is to Jesus".
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Level 63
Jan 7, 2021
I'm sure almost everyone tried Judas Priest first.
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Level 51
Jan 7, 2021
UwU cool quiz QuQ
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Level 67
Jan 8, 2021
You put Obama Cares' first name for the question. Please fix.
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Level 48
Mar 29, 2021
I thought Biden was Obama's last name.
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Level 68
Mar 29, 2021
I don't understand the lincoln/johnson analogy.
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Level 74
Mar 29, 2021
Harry Truman was Roosevelt's VP and successor; Andrew Johnson was Lincoln's VP and successor.
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Level 68
Mar 29, 2021
50%, kiwi.
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Level 79
Feb 5, 2022
With that username...?
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Level 68
Mar 29, 2021
got 17, not even american but greek.

yeah i am very good

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Level 71
Mar 29, 2021
The Lieberman one is kinda funny because McCain almost chose him to be his running mate. If he had, his campaign probably wouldn't have been a complete joke.
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Level 67
Mar 29, 2021
For sure, the campaign became about Palin and what an unqualified sideshow she was, but the McCain camp knew that Obama was a juggernaut. He was really charismatic (in contrast to McCain's staid approach), young, biracial, and especially articulate and inspiring to a new generation of voters. McCain needed to shake things up with something unexpected, so the campaign picked a beautiful woman with an "aw, shucks" demeanor in an attempt to siphon off some of the attention Obama was getting. In retrospect, it was a disaster, and I'm sure McCain wishes he had picked Lieberman or any one of experienced and qualified statesmen and women instead, but I don't think there was any way he was winning that election anyway, against the enthusiasm Obama generated and coming off the heels of the 2008 financial crisis, which happened under a Republican administration. McCain for sure deserved better though. He was a worthy candidate, and a devoted public servant.
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Level 71
Mar 29, 2021
I suppose when you put it that way the selection makes sense. I wasn't necessarily saying that McCain would've won with Joe Lieberman, but it would've been less of an embarrassment at least.

And I definitely agree with your last statement. John McCain is one of my favorite politicians (and I say that as a pretty liberal Democrat!). It's a pity he didn't win in the 2000 primaries--he would have been a better President than Bush.

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Level 88
Mar 29, 2021
I am to analogy quizzes as moths are to flame. ;)
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Level 62
Mar 30, 2021
I don't get the Aldrin analogy.
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Level 67
Mar 30, 2021
Adams was the second president. Washington was the first. Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon. Armstrong was the first.