The 80s
Fuzzy style items that are worn in pairs near the feet, they took off with the 80s obsession with dance culture.
What are leg warmers?
Land completely surrounded by water.
What's an island?
A kind of paint medium which uses a common liquid to disperse pigment over an absorbent paper.
What's water color?
Ketchup, mustard, salt, pepper, and tabasco sauce, to name a few examples.
What's a condiment?
The product of 6 x 7
What's 42?
The dominant mode for conveying music to the masses, it had 2 reels in a hard plastic shell.
What's a cassette tape?
This classic geometric shape of a volcanic mountain includes what it's made of.
What's a cinder cone?
A way of layering dipped strips and sheets into a structure that hardens as it dries.
What's paper mache?
Tubular pasta, or what Yankee Doodle calls a feather.
What's macaroni?
This "five pointed star" can be drawn with 6 coterminous line segments is often associated with witchcraft.
What's a Pentagram?
The name of the space shuttle that met with a very public disaster during ascent.
What's "Challenger"?
The area of land which is drained by a river system.
What's a watershed?
This device spins a piece of carvable material so it can be shaped along its length.
What's a lathe?
This spice common to Indian dishes is derived from one of the genuses Elettaria or Amomum
What is Cardamom?
An irrational number representing the base of a natural logarithm.
what is e?
This mountain in Washington state erupted to kick off the decade with a bang.
What's Mt St Helen's?
The five US states that begin with a compass direction.
What are North & South Dakota, North & South Carolina, West Virginia.
The process of taking a clump of fibres and teasing a bit of them out, then twisting it into a basic string shape.
What's spinning (thread or yarn)?
A wooden plank with cheeses, meats, and other bite-size items.
What's a charcuterie board?
The inverse of a derivative in calculus.
What's an integral?
This indirect competition among armed forces dominated geopolitics as the relationship of 2 super powers.
What's the Cold War?
Stone and earth carried along by a glacier or ice shelf and then deposited onto the ground.
What's a moraine?
A form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques.
What's macrame'?
Raw meat served in super-thin slices usually as an appetizer
What's carpaccio?
In statistics, it's the amount of variation of a random variable expected about its mean, or about 34% above or below.
What's a standard deviation?