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trick questions?
100

The last piece of equipment in a correct signal flow.

What is a speaker

100

The act of using heat and resin to create or repair a connector.

What is an soldering

100

He is the teaching artist that once recorded a member of WuTang.

Who is Nick Simone

100

What you need to wear to communicate with the stage manager.

What is a headset?

100

Which actor while deceased has made numerous appearances in TWDP technical rehearsals.

Who is Bea Arthur?

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!

200
To increase in level.
What is gain?
200

The first thing A2 does with a wireless transmitter on the day of a show. 

What is change or add batteries?

200

The crew member responsible for wireless mics.

Who is the A2?

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!

200
A device which increases signal level.
What is an amplifier?
200

These Teaching Artists were in a car accident on the way home from C5's studio day a Fenix Studios.

Who is Michael and Nick M?

300

The shape of the sound as it exits the speaker.

What is dispersion?

300

After the system is powered up the A1 performs this task to ensure that the system is working properly.

What is a line check?

300

Person on the sound team that works directly with the director.

What is the Sound Designer?

300
To reduce in level.
What is attenuate?
300

This musical was said to be the hardest ever to mix by an audio engineer that toured with the show.

What is Hamilton?

400
A unit of measurement denoting frequency
What are Hertz
400

the best way to back up the settings of a digital mixing console.

What is save a scene?

400

This person ensures that the sound load in and load out is run and completed correctly.

What is a Sound Crew Chief?

400

To adjust audio levels of each actor only when they are speaking on stage.

What is line mixing?

400
Electronic set of filters used to boost or attenuate certain frequencies.
What is an equalizer?
500

Dynamic Microphones DO NOT need this.

What is Phantom Power.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!

500

When hanging a speaker using a C-clamp you never loosen this.

What is the Jesus-Nut?

500

interpreter in a technical artistic field. Must be able to express the designer's, composer, and director's intent through the medium of live audio technology.

What is an A1?

500

(Hz) represents one cycle per second, 20Hz represents 20 cycles per second and so on.

What are frequencies?

500

A Decibel (dB).

What is is a unit used to measure Intensity, Power Level, and Volume?

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