Science
This fundamental force is responsible for the attraction and repulsion between charged particles.
What is the electromagnetic force?
This 1920s Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Georgia O'Keeffe's "The Lawrence Tree" is best associated with this artistic term describing organic, nature-inspired abstract forms.
What is biomorphic abstraction?
This musical term describes the highness or lowness of sound.
What is pitch?
In "The Great Gatsby," this character serves as the novel's narrator.
Who is Nick Carraway?
When calculating the force between two charged objects using Coulomb's Law, the force is inversely proportional to this mathematical expression involving distance.
What is the square of the distance (or distance squared)?
This fashionable term described forward-thinking young women of the 1920s who embodied youthful rebellion, freedom, and sexual liberation.
What is a flapper?
This photographic movement, associated with creating artful images rather than purely documentary ones, is linked to the medium of photography.
What is Pictorialism?
This type of meter consists of a three-beat pattern, such as STRONG-weak-weak.
What is triple meter?
West Egg, where much of "The Great Gatsby" is set, is characterized as a place where people with this type of wealth live, as opposed to old money.
What is "new money"?
This term describes materials like copper where electrons move freely between atoms, allowing electric current to flow easily.
What are conductors (or electrical conductors)?
Benjamin Franklin's famous kite experiment during a thunderstorm helped demonstrate that this weather phenomenon was electrical in nature.
What is lightning?
Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House utilized these modular construction elements that allowed for repeated patterns in a grid format.
What are textile blocks?
This musical term describes a vocal improvisation technique where singers use nonsense syllables, treating the voice like an instrument.
What is scat singing?
Tom Buchanan keeps this apartment in New York for meetings with his mistress Myrtle Wilson.
What is an apartment kept by Tom for meetings with Myrtle?
According to Ohm's Law, if you double the resistance in a circuit while keeping voltage constant, the current will be reduced to this fraction of its original value.
What is one-half?
This labor strategy, where companies provided workers with benefits while maintaining strict control, was practiced by Ford and other 1920s companies.
What is welfare capitalism?
In Charles Demuth's painting featuring the word "BILL," this refers to poet William Carlos Williams.
Who is William Carlos Williams (or what is poet William Carlos Williams)?
James P. Johnson composed this piece in 1920 that popularized a dance craze associated with the Jazz Age.
What is "The Charleston"?
In "The Great Gatsby," Gatsby and Carraway both have spent time in this Kentucky city.
What is Louisville?
In a circuit, if you triple the resistance while keeping voltage constant, the current will be reduced to this fraction of its original value.
What is one-third?
The corporation that dominated the radio industry in the 1920s was known by this three-letter abbreviation.
What is RCA (Radio Corporation of America)?
This design element borrowed from Puebloan pottery tradition features a geometric pattern that references Mesoamerican architecture.
What is the step motif?
The oldest style of blues singing, which predated classic blues and other forms, is called this.
What is country blues?
In "The Great Gatsby," the person who was actually driving the car that killed Myrtle Wilson was this character.
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
This type of current, abbreviated DC, is characterized by charge flowing consistently in a single direction through a conductor.
What is direct current?
This important development of the 1920s expanded the possibilities of American life by making personal transportation widely accessible.
What is car ownership (or automobile ownership)?
The Chrysler Building exemplifies this design trend of the 1920s, characterized by modern chrome and geometric patterns.
What is Art Deco?
In 1927, this legislation led to federal regulation of radio broadcasting in the United States.
What is the Federal Radio Act of 1927?
Meyer Wolfshiem's unusual accessory that first indicates to Nick that he's not a regular person is this article of clothing or jewelry.
What are cuff buttons (or cufflinks)?
When three 1 kilohm resistors are connected in parallel, the equivalent resistance equals this value in ohms.
What is 333 ohms (or approximately 333 Ω)?
In August 1925, approximately this many Ku Klux Klan members marched in full regalia down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
What is 40,000?
During the 1920s, these design elements of traditional Native American art appeared comparable to Art Deco design.
What are abstract geometric shapes?
When a 600 Hz sound is broadcast on a 1.2 MHz radio wave, the radio wave's amplitude will vary this many times per second.
What is 600 (times per second)?
At the very end of "The Great Gatsby," this is who is living in Gatsby's house.
Who is no one (or what is nobody/the house is empty)?
This distinguishing property allows electromagnetic waves to travel through space where mechanical waves cannot.
What is the ability to travel through a vacuum?
From 1901 to 1920, approximately this many immigrants arrived on American shores.
What is 14.1 million?
This major 1913 exhibition in New York was the first to showcase European Modernism to American audiences.
What is the Armory Show (or the 1913 Armory Show)?
This French group of younger musicians who sought to change the musical status quo in France during the 1920s had this collective name.
What is Les Six?
F. Scott Fitzgerald's essay "Echoes of the Jazz Age" argues that the decline of the Jazz Age began when this happened to drinking after Prohibition ended.
What is drinking was no longer wicked (or it became legal/lost its rebellious appeal)?
When listing electromagnetic waves from lowest to highest frequency, this is the correct order of the first four types.
What are radio waves, microwaves, infrared, and visible light?
This presidential candidate defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This artist helped reframe the definition of "art" versus "craft" during the 1920s through their work with pottery.
Who is Maria Martinez?
Maurice Ravel's tour of the United States and Canada in 1928 took him to approximately this many cities over four months.
What is 50 cities?
Katherine Anne Porter's experimental short story "Rope" is notable for using this technique to convey dialogue without traditional punctuation.
What is conveying speech without using quotation marks?
Microwave ovens heat food by using waves at this specific frequency range that excites water molecules, causing them to increase in temperature.
What is the microwave frequency (or the frequency that excites water molecules)?
This comprehensive sociological study of American culture by Robert and Helen Lynd used data from Muncie, Indiana, and was titled this.
What is "Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture"?
This artistic movement of the 1920s saw artists attempting to come to terms with world changes while also fostering change themselves.
What is modernism?
In his Violin Sonata, Maurice Ravel aimed to demonstrate this relationship between the violin and piano.
What is the incompatibility of violin and piano (or that they are incompatible instruments)?
In Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "I, being born a woman and distressed," the speaker says she became infatuated with the other person for this reason.
What is because they were nearby and attractive (or proximity and physical attraction)?