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Special Sub-Topic: Historically Analogous People


Archduke Franz Ferdinand is to Princip as Robert Kennedy is to whom?

    Sirhan Sirhan. Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Princip. Robert Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.

Ross Perot was to Bill Clinton as Ralph Nader was to whom?
    George W. Bush. Ross Perot supposedly took votes away from George Bush, allowing Clinton to win in 1992. Ralph Nader supposedly took votes away from Al Gore, allowing George W. Bush to win in 2000.

Adolf Hitler was to the Jews as Andrew Jackson was to whom?
    Native Americans. Although Andrew Jackson did not engage in a policy of genocide against the Native Americans, he did advocate their removal from the American states, which resulted in many deaths.

Ernest Hemingway was to a shotgun as Sylvia Plath was to what?
    An oven. Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun blast, while Plath killed herself by sticking her head in a gas oven.

Alexander Graham Bell is to the telephone as Philo Farnsworth is to what?
    televison. Farnsworth was just a teenager when he invented the televison. Bell, of course, invented the telephone.

Andrew Johnson is to Abraham Lincoln as Lyndon Johnson is to whom?
    John Kennedy. Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Lincoln was assassinated just as Lyndon Johnson became president after the JFK assassination.

"Ich bin ein Berliner" is to John Kennedy as "Tear down this wall" is to whom?
    Ronald Reagan. Both Reagan and Kennedy uttered those famous phrases in the city of Berlin.

The Boston Tea Party is to the American Revolution as the storming of the Bastille is to what?
    French Revolution. The Boston Tea party and the storming of the Bastille were symbolic acts of defiance during the American and French revolutions respectively.

Watergate is to Nixon as the Teapot Dome is to whom?
    Warren Harding. The Teapot Dome was the name given to the principal scandal of the Harding administration.

Richard III of England is to Bosworth Field as Abraham Lincoln is to what famous location?
    Ford's Theater. Richard III was mortally wounded at Bosworth Field. Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theater in Washington, DC.


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