WARM WORDS
It follows dead in a race with no clear winner
What is dead heat?
It's a portable radio transmitter & receiver for 2-way communication
What is a walkie-talkie?
In 1859 Huygens thought there was just 1 of these features of Saturn but there are at least 7 major ones
What are rings?
Tom Cruise was Cole Trickle a driver on the southern stock-car circuit in this action flick
What is Days of Thunder?
Hurry up! This adverb meaning with haste is worth a big 25 points in Scrabble
What is quickly?
Like a passionate affair a zone of the Earth between the tropics is called this T word
What is torrid?
Nickname for the 1992 U.S. men's Olympic basketball squad
What is The Dream Team?
Lord Kelvin had his own understanding of heat transfer leading him to estimate this at 20 million years (try 4.5 billion)
What is the age of the Earth?
Spoiler alert - at the end of this film after surviving a break-up Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets a girl named Autumn
What is 500 Days of Summer?
Not at any time not now not in the past not in the future not under any condition
What is never?
In the book of Daniel Nebuchadnezzar tosses 3 men into this alliterative furnace
What is fiery?
Slang for a cocktail party that takes place during a trip around the harbor
A February 1953 paper by Linus Pauling says the structure of DNA involves this many intertwined polynucleotide chains - - so close
What is 3?
Al Pacino robs a bank & takes hostages in this 1975 film that sounds perfect for an August matinee
What is Dog Day Afternoon?
Steve Jobs liked to say Apple products were this crazy kind of great also the title of a book about the Macintosh
What is Insanely?
This word fir an updraft of warm air is from the Greek for heat
What is thermal?
What is a fuddy-duddy?
In the early 1800s John Dalton made pioneering tables of this measure though he gave 7 for oxygen's (15.999 is correct)
What is atomic weight?
She was a regular good luck charm as Jinx Johnson in Die Another Day
Who is Halle Berry?
Specifically taking place every 8760 hours
What is annually (yearly)?
It can mean both crazy & pleasantly warm like a mild tropical climate
Varieties of this hot cocoa mix include unicorn marshmallows & marshmallow lovers
What is Swiss Miss?
The expansion rate of the universe is the constant named for this man who in the 1920s pegged it at 7 times the current estimate
What is Hubble?
A quote from this 1951 sci-fi classic: Gorti Klaatu barada nikto
What is The Day the Earth Stood Still?
From the Greek for angle to angle in the direction of a slanting straight line
What is diagonally?