Waves by DixonD

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RobK
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Runner(s)-Up:

minarik15


Quiz Description

To celebrate the first direct detection of gravitational waves, a quiz about waves of all sorts.

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Questions:

During World War II, the WAVES program permitted women to join the United States Naval Reserve. The name stands for "Women Accepted for Volunteer"... what?

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Emergency Service

Whose wave equation is this?

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Erwin Schroedinger

What song, first released in 1989, is being covered here by OK Go?

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"Wave of Mutilation" by Pixies

In 1967, high school history teacher Ron Jones devised what experiment to introduce his students to the rise of Nazism in pre-war Germany, but cut it short when the fascist ideology started to get a little too popular with the students?

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The Third Wave

(Fill in the blank) The audience participation exercise known as "the wave" is called "the _______ wave" outside of North America (la ola to natives of the namesake country) when it was popularized during broadcasts of the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

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Mexican

When waves combine to form a standing wave, what term names the points where the wave amplitude is the greatest (eg. the "hot spots" in a microwave oven)?

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antinode

The Milwaukee Wave is a team in what professional sport, where ricocheting the ball off of the walls surrounding the playing field is a key part of the game?

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indoor or arena soccer (also minifootball, fast football, et al.)

Name the genre of music consisting of slowed-down ("chopped and screwed") samples of easy-listening music like the kind played in malls. Example track: "Candlelight Email" by Diskette Romances. (edited at 2:05 pm, February 11, 2016 (PST))

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vaporwave

light waves : photon :: sound waves : ______

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phonon

The B side of what 1985 album is a suite of songs, known collectively as The Ninth Wave, which depicts the inner monologue of a woman stranded at sea?

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The Hounds of Love, by Kate Bush

The inspiration for the title of the song suite referred to in Question 10 was the poem "Idylls of the King: The Coming of Arthur" by what British Poet Laureate?

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Who demonstrated that Gauss's Law, Faraday's Law, and Ampere's Law (with an extra term to include the effects of changing electric flux), combine to form a wave equation, whose solutions have a propagation velocity equal to the speed of light?

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James Clerk Maxwell