MELODIES AND GROOVES
This period of classical music falls after the classical era and before 20th century.
What is the romantic period?
This company’s most notable games are Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Brawl Stars.
What is Supercell?
This phenomenon is when a change in perceived audio pitch is caused by the sound source moving relative to the observer.
What is the Doppler effect?
This is the suffix used in medicine that denotes a blood disease.
What is ‘-emia’?
This is the ancient Japanese art of growing miniature trees.
What is bonsai?
This song is the greatest hit of an incredibly well known 70s songwriter. The song tells a story based on the songwriter’s real-life experience gigging as a lounge singer.
What is Piano Man by Billie Joel?
This video game’s skin market went through a big crash in October 2025, causing many players to lose millions of dollars.
What is Counter-Strike?
This is the most distant human made object from Earth.
This device is a type of defibrillator found behind glass in public buildings. Commonly known by a 3 letter acronym.
What is an automatic external defibrillator (AED)?
This is a general name for plants that don’t stay alive for multiple years (seasonal).
What is an annual?
This medieval instrument features a hand-cranked circular bow that slides against several strings.
What is the hurdy gurdy?
This name for a type of video game was derived by combining the names of 2 older games of this style. Hollow Knight is the most popular example of this type of game.
What is metroidvania?
This is a licensed and regulated radio communication service used by many individuals across the world. Has the nickname ‘ham radio’.
What is amateur radio?
This is a protocol used in first aid that describe steps taken during an emergency. Known as the 3 Cs.
What is check, call, care?
This is a general name for plants that stay alive for multiple years (not seasonal).
What is a perennial?
This term is abbreviated as ‘LFO’ in music technology.
What is a low frequency oscillator?
In Minecraft, gunpowder was named this before beta 1.3.
What is sulfur?
This is a type of manufacturing that strictly involves cutting away material. CNCs, lathes, water jets, and plenty more systems fall into this category of manufacturing.
What is subtractive manufacturing?
This disease is most notable for its unusual risk to pregnant women in the vicinity of cats.
What is toxoplasmosis?
This is the act of rooting plant cuttings in soil for growing.
What is soil propagation?
This is a type of Latin groove played by a piano. Its defining features include octave doubling and syncopated rhythms. It is heavily used in salsa, mambo, and other Latin jazz.
What is a montuno?
This Russian folk song is used as the theme for the incredibly notable blocky game, Tetris.
What is Korobeiniki?
This new type of autofocus was (and still is) revolutionary when first introduced in the Canon 70D in 2013.
What is dual pixel autofocus?
This is a test that verifies functionality of the cochlea by sending a sub-audible sound into the ear and recording how the inner ear hair cells react.
What is an otoacoustic emissions test?