Physicists and Actors
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She appeared in “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and he had some ideas about gravity, among other things.
Who is Newton? (Thandie and Isaac)
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Jason Bateman, Bobby Cannavale.
What is Thunder Force
(score = 34%)
This faculty member was once a sponsored mountain bike racer.
Who is David Macaluso?
Who are the two plasma theorists on the faculty of the UM Department of Physics and Astronomy?
Who are Ebo Uchimoto and Andrew Ware?
Name the band. (100)
Name the song. (Bonus 100)
Who is Van Halen? (100)
What is "Jump"? (100)
He was Hansel in Zoolander and he shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.
Who is Wilson? (Owen and Robert)
n Scrat's acorn sends an asteroid to Earth, the Herd must find a way to stop the asteroid from hitting Earth with the help of a returning friend. Starring Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo.
What is Ice Age: Collision Course?
(score = 34%)2017’s Outstanding Staff Member for Excellence in Job Performance at UM.
Who is Jaylene Naylor?
The Russian word for toroid.
What is a tokamak?
Name the artist. (200)
Name the song. (Bonus 100)
Who is Adele? (200)
What is "Skyfall"? (100)
He appeared in “Jumaniji: Welcome to the Jungle” and she performed calculations of orbital mechanics that made possible the first manned U.S. spaceflights.
Who is Johnson? (Dwayne and Katherine)
Four increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz.
What is The 5th Wave?
(score = 33%)
The departmental member earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin.
Who is Ebo Uchimoto?
The ratio of the plasma pressure to the magnetic pressure.
What is plasma beta? (or simply "beta")?
Name the band. (300)
Name the song. (Bonus 300)
Who is Modest Mouse? (300)
What is "Gravity Rides Everything"? (300)
She was a singer who appeared in the Blues Brothers movies and she produced the first X-ray diffraction images of DNA.
Who is Franklin? (Aretha and Rosalind)
When a lifeguard catches wind of a dangerous anomaly off the coast of San Diego, she commissions a band of unlikely heroes to assist her on a suicide mission to save the west coast from total destruction. Movie Catchphrase "Nature's most dangerous predator just went nuclear!" Starring Adam Ambruso, Stacy Baker, Alex Chayka, William 'Bill' Connor.
What is Atomic Shark?
(score = 0%)
This member of our department (nearly) shares a name and birth state with the first African American QB to win a Heisman trophy.
Who is Andrew Ware? (QB was "Andre Ware")
The acronym for the largest magnetic fusion experiment ever which is being built in the south of France.
What is ITER?
Name the artist. (400)
Name the song. (100)
Who is Florence + The Machine?
She played Moneypenny in 14 Bond films and he was a Scottish physicist with a set of equations named after him.
Who is Maxwell? (Lois and James Clerk)
A Ph.D. student investigates unusual seismic activity in Los Angeles, leading to a cabal of elitist scientists, who plan to weaponize Nikola Tesla's most secret research to manipulate thought patterns and earthquakes. Starring: Charles Shaughnessy, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Kirby Bliss Blanton, Richard Burgi.
What is Final Frequency?
(score pending...)
This department member picked up grant funding due to a pick-up basketball game in college.
Who is Nate McCrady?
The only Nobel Prize in Physics winner who did his research in plasma physics won the award in 1970 for "fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics.”
Who was Hannes Alfvén?
Name the artist. (500)
Name the Song. (100)
Who is R.E.M.?
What is "Fall on Me?"