COOL THROUGH THE AGES
A perfect new track is not literally burning, but current slang says it is this four-letter word.
What is fire?
A 16-slice pizza is 3/8 gone, and no one admits anything. This many slices remain.
What is 10?
An oyster or another mollusk makes this gem by coating an irritant or inserted bead with nacre.
What is a pearl?
This digital container shares its name with the paper holder used for documents.
What is a folder?
The handheld device used to point and click on a computer.
What is a mouse?
This illness word can also mean amazingly good: “That skateboarding trick was ___.”
What is sick?
A soccer player scores 4 goals every 5 games. At the same rate, this many goals in 15 games.
What is 12?
This golden-orange gem is fossilized tree resin and can preserve ancient insects like nature’s bug screenshot.
What is amber?
As a verb, this word means “to get in the way”; as a noun, it is where dirty laundry belongs.
What is a hamper?
Wooden or aluminum, it's what a baseball player swings at the plate.
What is a bat?
First recorded as an adjective in 1978, this three-letter compliment sounds like someone started saying “radical” and stopped.
What is rad?
A playlist has hype songs and chill songs in a 2:3 ratio. If it has 35 songs total, this many are hype.
What is 14?
This green gem is the green-to-bluish-green variety of the mineral beryl.
What is emerald?
Books line up on this horizontal platform, while a forgotten project may be “put on” one.
What is a shelf?
This tall construction machine hoists steel beams to the top of a skyscraper.
What is a crane?
Phonograph is to record player
as this is to cool
What is phat?
Three friends split 2 1/4 hours of console time equally. Each gets this fraction of an hour.
What is 3/4 of an hour?
Turn this gem and it may flash different rainbow colors, an effect called play-of-color.
What is opal?
This word can mean a person who sketches or a pull-out compartment for socks.
What is a drawer?
On a pair of pants, it's the zipper or button flap in front.
What is a fly?
Used since the late 1700s for a stylish man or something excellent: “That’s just ___.”
What is dandy?
A dog walks 1 1/2 miles in 24 minutes. At the same pace, one mile takes this many minutes.
What is 16 minutes?
Ruby and sapphire look unrelated, but both are color varieties of this mineral.
What is corundum?
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species belong to this biological naming system for organizing life.
What is taxonomy?
The pressed wax stamp that closed a medieval letter, or the airtight closure on a jar.
What is a seal?