📈 SINUSOIDAL STUFF
The basic shape of sine and cosine graphs looks like this type of wave.
👉 What is a wave (or oscillating curve)?
The highest male singing voice type is this.
👉 What is tenor?
This river system connects Pittsburgh to the Mississippi via the Ohio River.
👉 What is the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers forming the Ohio River?
Before becoming the PlayStation, this canceled prototype between Sony and Nintendo was informally known by this name.
👉 What is the Nintendo PlayStation (SNES-CD)?
“Runaway” went viral years later on this platform.
👉 What is TikTok?
The maximum height of a sine wave from its midline is called this.
👉 What is amplitude?
The interval between C and G is this.
👉 What is a perfect fifth?
This region of PA is known for anthracite coal.
👉 What is Northeastern Pennsylvania (Coal Region)?
The Dreamcast used this built-in feature for internet connectivity, rare for its time.
👉 What is a modem (dial-up online capability)?
This song includes the lyric about being “underwater” and emotional depth.
👉 What is “Underwater”?
The distance it takes for a sine wave to repeat is called this.
👉 What is the period?
This production technique involves isolating vocals or instruments from a track
👉 What is stem separation (or audio isolation)?
This lesser-known PA town was the site of the first U.S. oil well.
👉 What is Titusville?
The Xbox 360’s “Red Ring of Death” was primarily caused by this hardware issue.
👉 What is overheating leading to solder joint failure?
“Cure For Me” rejects the idea that she needs this.
👉 What is being “fixed” or “cured”?
If B increases in the function, what happens to the graph?
👉 What is the period decreases (wave gets compressed)?
This chord progression: I–V–vi–IV is commonly used in pop and is sometimes called this informally.
👉 What is the “four chord progression”?
This PA city is known as the “Electric City.”
👉 What is Scranton?
This obscure console, released in 1995, used cartridges and CDs and was made by Apple.
👉 What is the Pippin?
This haunting track features repeated imagery of animals and survival instincts.
👉 What is “The Seed”?
A cosine graph can be rewritten as a sine graph using this type of transformation.
👉 What is a phase shift?
In equal temperament, an octave is divided into this many semitones.
👉 What is 12?
This industrialist founded a steel empire in Pittsburgh.
👉 Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This handheld console by Sony used proprietary UMD discs.
👉 What is the PSP (PlayStation Portable)?
In “Runaway,” she repeatedly expresses the desire to do this.
👉 What is run away from home/escape?