To celebrate the first direct detection of gravitational waves, a quiz about waves of all sorts.
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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?
Whose wave equation is this?
What song, first released in 1989, is being covered here by OK Go?
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?
(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.
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)?
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?
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))
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?
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?
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?