WEATHER GONE WILD
A warm dry wind can race down the ester side of Colorado's mountains and cause temperatures dramatically in only a few hours. It shares the name of this military helicopter.
What is a Chinook?
Before caller Identification dialing these three digits could sometimes tell you the number of the last person who called your landline.
What is *69?
A group of lions.
What is a Pride?
In 1945 engineer Percy Spencer was working around radar equipment when he noticed this had melted in his pocket, helping lead to the microwave oven.
What is a candy bar?
This animal has 3 hearts, blue blood, and can squeeze through an opening barely larger than its' beak.
What is the octopus?
During a thunderstorm this electrical discharge can shoot upward from a mountain, tower or other tall object toward the cloud the opposite direction most people picture lightning traveling.
What is upward lightning?
Need someones phone number in another city? You could dial 411 locally but traditionally this service connected you with an operator who searched telephone listings for you.
What is directory assistance?
A group of Owls.
What is a parliament?
Spencer Silver ws trying to create as super strong adhesive at 3M. Instead he created a unusually weak reusable adhesive that gave us this office supply staple.
What are Post It Notes?
Botanically this yellow curved fruit is a berry while a strawberry technically isn't one.
What is a banana?
Colorado mountains can create a stationary cloud that looks remarkably like a flying saucer. Pilots know to respect the severe turbulance associated with this lens shaped cloud.
What is a lenticular cloud?
Long before internet searches libraries kept thousands of index cards in little drawers. The cards were primarily organized by author, title, and this third major method.
What is subject?
A group of Jellyfish.
What is a smack?
It took 40 tries for Norman Larsen to invent this water displacement spray.
What is WD40?
This planet takes longer to rotate once on its' axis than it takes to complete an orbit around the Sun. Its' rotation is slow slow that its' day is longer than its' year.
What is Venus?
Colorado mountains can produce violent atmospheric waves on their downward side when air flowing over the continental divide begins oscillating vertically like water passing over submerged rock. Meteorologists call these _______ waves.
What are mountain waves?
Before digital music people made homemade compilations by recording songs onto these. Getting the timing perfect so the DJ didn't talk over the beginning was part of the art.
What is a cassette tape?
Respectively this is a mischief, murder, and unkindness.
What is a group of magpie, crow and raven?
Engineer Wilson Great Batch grabbed the wrong resistor while building a device to record heart rhythms. Instead of merely recording them the circuit began producing electrical pulse resembling a heart beat helping lead to this implantable device.
What is the pacemaker?
This famous tower can be come roughly six inches taller during hot weather because its' iron expands as the temperature rises.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
On s clear cold night in a Colorado mountain valley the air at the valley floor can become colder than the air higher up the mountain. The reverse of the usual pattern. Name the phenomenon.
What is temperature inversion?
Loing before Google maps, travelers could request a custom spiral bound road map from this organiazation. Its' famous trip tik guides had individual map strips that were flipped as you drove.
Wat is the American Automobile Association?
A group of Rhinos.
What is a stubbornness? (or a crash)
In 1856 William Henry Perkin was attempting to synthesize a treatment for malaria when his experiment instead produced a vivid purple substance. His accidental discover launched the synthetic dye industry with the famous first commercial dye.
What is mauvine or mauve?
in 1859 a massive solar storm produce aauroras so bright that people reportedly read newspapers by their light. Telegraph systems malfunctioned and some operators discovered they could briefly communicate after disconnecting their batteries. the event is named for the British astronomer who observed the associated solar eruption.
Who is Richard Karrington?