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This is the broadest definition of music, requiring a time frame, sound waves, and a cognizant mind.
What is "sound organized in time"?
This 1925 novel, which follows a mysterious millionaire's pursuit of a lost love, celebrates its centennial in 2025.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This American statesman and scientist famously studied "Electrical Fire" and named the two types of charges positive and negative.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This was President Woodrow Wilson’s detailed 14-point blueprint for a lasting peace following World War I.
What are the Fourteen Points?
These numbers consist of the set of rational and irrational numbers.
What are Real Numbers?
This term refers to the illegal manufacturing and sale of alcohol during Prohibition.
What is Bootlegging?
He is the protagonist of The Great Gatsby who throws lavish parties in hopes of winning back Daisy.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
This group of early 20th-century artists, also known as "The Eight," was famous for depicting gritty, realistic urban scenes.
What is the Ashcan School?
This author, famously associated with the Jazz Age, wrote This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
These negatively charged particles are found outside the nucleus and are much lighter than protons.
What are electrons?
Ratified in 1920, this amendment finally guaranteed that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied on account of gender.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This property states that when you add or multiply two numbers, you can reverse their order without changing the result.
What is the Commutative Property?
In the 1920s, this buying method allowed consumers to "possess today and pay tomorrow."
What is Installment Buying (or Credit)?
This scientist is credited with the Theory of Relativity and the famous equation E=mc2.
Who is Albert Einstein?
In the Sachs-Hornbostel system, instruments like flutes and trumpets that feature a vibrating column of air are called this.
What are aerophones?
Representing a rebellion against Victorian restrictions, this iconic 1920s female figure typically had bobbed hair and wore short skirts.
What is a flapper?
This law states that the force between two charged objects is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
What is Coulomb’s Law?
Warren G. Harding won the 1920 election by promising a return to this—a plea for stability after the turmoil of the war.
What is Normalcy?
This is the value of any non-zero real number raised to the power of zero.
What is 1?
This is the set of all possible y-values (outputs) of a function.
What is the Range?
This painter is famous for her 1929 work The Lawrence Tree and her depictions of the American Southwest.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
This legendary singer, known as the "Empress of the Blues," recorded the 1926 hit "Lost Your Head Blues."
Who is Bessie Smith?
This experimental 1925 novel by John Dos Passos used a fragmented style to mirror the disorienting life of New York City.
What is Manhattan Transfer?
These materials, such as copper, allow electrons to flow through them easily, whereas insulators do not.
What are conductors?
In 1919, 365,000 workers in this major industry went on strike to protest grueling 84-hour weeks and poor pay.
What is the Steel Industry?
This type of statement shows equality between two mathematical expressions.
What is an Equation?
These "camera-less" photographs are made by placing objects directly on light-sensitive paper.
What are Rayographs (or Photograms)?
This African American poet wrote "The Weary Blues" and "Mother to Son."
Who is Langston Hughes?
This artist created "Rayographs" by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper without using a camera.
Who is Man Ray?
This celebrated cultural movement emerged from the mass movement of Black Americans to Northern neighborhoods like Harlem.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This law, often expressed as V=IR, relates voltage, current, and resistance in a simple circuit.
What is Ohm’s Law?
This major political scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall selling public oil reserves to private companies.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This common four-letter acronym is used as a quick way to find the product of two binomials.
What is FOIL?
This scientific device, consisting of a coil of wire, acts as a magnet when an electric current passes through it.
What is a Solenoid?
This Secretary of the Interior was the first cabinet member to go to prison due to the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Who is Albert Fall?
This early jazz sub-style, which began in New Orleans, is characterized by "collective improvisation" or heterophony.
What is New Orleans jazz?
In literary terms, this concept refers to both the "where" and the "when" of a story.
What is setting?
This law describes how a changing magnetic field can induce an electric current in a loop of wire.
What is Faraday’s Law?
This "New York Yankees" slugger hit a record sixty home runs in 1927, becoming the era's most famous athlete.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This formula is used to find the distance between two points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) in a coordinate plane.
What is the Distance Formula?
This 1920s term described the "new woman" who challenged social norms with short hair and jazz dancing.
What is a Flapper?
This "Empress of the Blues" was the highest-paid African American entertainer of her time.
Who is Bessie Smith?
This Art Deco masterpiece, designed by William Van Alen, features a famous tiered spire of stainless steel.
What is the Chrysler Building?
Officially enacted by the 18th Amendment, this era of "dry" laws is a central theme and source of wealth in The Great Gatsby.
What is Prohibition?
This 19th-century competition between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla determined whether AC or DC would power the world.
What are the Current Wars?
This 1924 Act severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and excluded Asians entirely.
What is the Johnson-Reed Act?
In the equation y=mx+b, the letter m represents this specific characteristic of the line.
What is the Slope?
This mathematical identity states that a(b+c)=ab+ac.
What is the Distributive Property?
He famously piloted the Spirit of St. Louis on the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This 1913 exhibition in New York City is credited with introducing American audiences to experimental European modern art.
What is the Armory Show?
This writer, known for her sharp wit and poem "The Flapper," famously credited the modern woman's existence to "God and Scott Fitzgerald".
Who is Dorothy Parker?
This value, approximately 300,000 kilometers per second, is considered a constant that cannot be exceeded.
What is the speed of light?
Known as the "Monkey Trial," this 1925 legal battle in Tennessee centered on the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This is the specific set of all x-coordinates (input values) of the ordered pairs in a function.
What is the Domain?
This 1924 law established a quota system that severely limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What is the Johnson-Reed Act?
This architect designed the Art Deco Chrysler Building in New York City.
Who is William Van Alen?
Louis Armstrong famously popularized this improvised singing technique using nonsense syllables in the hit "Heebie Jeebies."
What is scat singing (or scatting)?
This 1929 novel by Nella Larsen investigated racial identity by focusing on two Black women navigating the "color line" in Harlem.
What is Passing?
This device consists of two conducting plates separated by an insulator and is used to store electric charge.
What is a capacitor?
This Jamaican-born leader founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to promote Black nationalism.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This theorem for right triangles states that the sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (a2+b2=c2).
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This unit of measure for angles is based on the radius of a circle, where 180∘ equals π.
What is a Radian?
This mathematician/philosopher is the namesake of the theorem a2+b2=c2.
Who is Pythagoras?
This 1927 masterpiece of musical theater used the song "Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man" to foreshadow a character's mixed-race identity.
What is Show Boat?
This specific 1920 demographic milestone saw more Americans living in these areas than in rural ones for the first time.
What are urban areas (or cities)?
Albert Einstein developed this theory, which explores the consequences of the constant speed of light and the relationship between space and time.
What is Relativity?
The Great Depression was exacerbated by this 1930 tariff, which sparked retaliatory trade barriers from other nations.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
These are two positive angles whose sum is exactly 90 degrees.
What are Complementary Angles?
In physics, this is the property of a material that opposes the flow of electric current, measured in Ohms.
What is Resistance?
This female aviator and rival to Amelia Earhart was the first woman to earn a commercial pilot's license.
Who is Florence "Pancho" Barnes?