Physics
A tensor.
What is something that transforms like a tensor?
What is something that has a bunch of indices?
Any answer involving the words "multilinear" or "map" loses 100 points.
First rapper to win a Pulitzer prize.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
The highest and lowest points in California.
Where is the peak of Mount Whitney and Badwater Basin?
The Vice Chair for Graduate Affairs in the UC Davis Physics Department.
Who is Professor (Rajiv) Singh?
The most dangerous jellyfish
What is the box jellyfish?
The generator of translations.
What is the momentum operator?
Singer of the 2010 song "Baby".
Who is Justin Bieber?
This lake straddles the California-Nevada border and its surrounding mountains are a popular winter destination.
What is Lake Tahoe?
There are this many Safeways in Davis.
What is two?
Mammals that whistle to communicate with others of their species.
What are dolphins?
The name for spacetime with no gravitation.
What is Minkowski space(time)?
*must pronounce correctly
Popular early 2010s country breakout star who sang "Teardrops on my Guitar".
Who is Taylor Swift?
There are 20 of these areas of protected land in California.
What is a national forest?
This Unitrans bus lines circles around the city of Davis.
What is the P (or Q) line?
What is a hammerhead shark?
A surface in momentum space that separates occupied electron states from unoccupied electron states in a material.
What is a Fermi surface?
"Ground control to Major Tom"
What is Space Oddity by David Bowie?
The PCT runs for this many miles in California.
What is 1700 miles? (Error of ~100 miles counts as correct)
The highest capacity lecture hall at UC Davis.
What is California Hall?
The fish that can swim as fast as cars on a highway.
What is a sailfish?
This Ph.D.-less physicist was the main actor in proving that old-fashioned perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams yield equivalent results.
Who is Freeman Dyson?
She is the artist with the most Grammys.
Who is Beyonce?
The tallest tree in the world, located in one of California's national parks.
What is Hyperion?
The mayor of Davis.
Who is Josh Chapman?
Fish that lives at the deepest level below the ocean's surface.
What is a snailfish?