Ice Ice Baby
Unlike frozen water, this substance solidifies into "dry ice" at -78.5 degrees Celsius.
What is carbon dioxide?
Salchow, Lutz, Twizzle
This dessert features ice cream and cake covered in toasted meringue.
What is Baked Alaska?
Relating to a navy (5 letters)
What is naval?
This Italian dessert is churned slowly and served warmer than ice cream to keep its smooth texture.
What is gelato?
Most natural ice forms a crystal lattice which gives snowflakes this number of sides
What is six?
Parallel, Big Air, Half-Pipe
What is snowboarding?
In a deal mocked as "Seward's Folly" the US purchased Alaska from this dissolved empire.
What is the Russian Empire?
A Scottish Highland family group (4 letters)
What is a clan?
This bite sized confection features a sticky rice dumpling wrapped around a creamy, cold filling.
What is mochi ice cream?
Adding a solute like salt to water causes this phenomenon, which explains why we treat icy roads with salt in the winter.
What is freezing point depression?
Downhill, super G, slalom
What is alpine skiing?
This coming-of-age novel by John Green follows Miles "Pudge" Halter as he seeks his "Great Perhaps."
What is Looking for Alaska?
A jousting weapon or the name of an office friend in Jackson (5 letters)
What is a lance?
Who is Lance?
Inventor Curt Jones created this "Ice Cream of the Future" by flash-freezing dairy droplets in liquid nitrogen.
What are Dippin' Dots?
This term describes the process by which ice turns directly into water vapor without melting.
What is sublimation?
House, Stone, Button
What is curling?
This singer-songwriter's career took off after Pharrell Williams praised her song Alaska during a viral masterclass at NYU.
Who is Maggie Rogers?
A farewell or an old-fashioned word for a valley nestled between hills (4 letters)
What is a vale?
To achieve its signature dense texture, this Indian dairy treat is frozen in metal molds submerged in a mixture of ice and salt.
What is kulfi?
This effect describes how snow and ice help cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space.
What is the albedo effect?
Pilot, Brakeman, Pusher
What is bobsleigh?
The name Alaska originates Alyeska meaning "great land" in the native language of this Indigenous group from the state's island chain.
What is Aleut or Unangan or Unangas?
A place of refuge and safety (5 letters)
What is haven?
Centuries before it was a brightly colored American ice cream alternative, this dessert was popularized in the Middle East and Ottoman Empire.
What is sherbet?