Measuring Your Words
You can "get off on the right" one (yay!) or have one "in the grave" (yikes!).
What is a foot?
Pester
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In the north Atlantic & northeast Pacific, "hurricane" is the regional term; in the northwest Pacific, it's "typhoon", but in the south Pacific & Indian Ocean, this word is used, from Greek for "circle"
What is a cyclone?
The correct plane trip.
What is the right flight?
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" says to carry one of these everywhere to dry you.
What is a towel?
Don't get "tied up in" these measures of speed at sea.
What is a knot?
Can't feel a thing
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What is numb?
When one of these devices that measures air pressure is falling, wet weather is likely on the way.
What is a barometer?
A hex even more heinous than the last.
What is the worst curse?
Be sure to have a waterproof container for your bedroll, AKA this 2-word portable bed.
What is a sleeping bag?
"The whole 9" these means all the way.
Jesus' boyhood home
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What is Nazareth
This triatomic allotrope of oxygen leaves that peculiar smell in the air after thunderstorms.
What is ozone?
A cacophonous mob.
What is a loud crowd?
Depending on your size & planned exertion, figure 1.5-2.5 pounds of food or 2,500-4,500 of these units per person per day.
What are calories?
It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion.
What is a second?
Favoritism shown to family members in business or politics
(8)
What is nepotism?
The 11-year cycle of these solar areas that are a cool 6,500° has been correlated with temperature changes on Earth.
What are sunspots?
Mistake caused by Gandalf's walking stick.
What is a staff gaffe?
You can save space in the pack by using a multi-tool, like this one named for a national military branch.
What is a Swiss army knife?
The arrangement of words in rhythmic verses gives a poem this pattern.
What is meter?
Neither acidic nor basic
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What is neutral?
The Beaufort scale generally ranges from 0 to 12 in measuring this.
What is wind?
A presidential "no" in Ecuador's capital.
What is a Quito veto?
This company named for a region of Argentina sells lightweight black hole bags.
What is Patagonia?