Match Day 11 Overview This set spans theatre, mathematics, women’s pro sports, country music, American literature, and modern diplomatic history. You met the soliloquy, a core dramatic device whose name comes from Latin solus (alone) + loqui (to speak), describing a character speaking thoughts aloud to the audience. From there the day jumped to Leonhard Euler’s famous Seven Bridges of Königsberg puzzle, which helped launch graph theory by formalizing the impossibility of walking a route that crossed each of Königsberg’s seven bridges over the Pregel (now Pregolya) River exactly once. ...

This match day leans heavily on 20th‑century media and institutions: the first televised Major League Baseball game in 1939, a German chocolate brand defined by its square bar, the financial performance metric alpha, a 1994 action blockbuster, two long‑running Newport music festivals, and U.S. presidents’ congressional careers. Q1 and Q4 both sit at the intersection of sports, news, and entertainment: the Dodgers–Reds game at Ebbets Field on August 26, 1939 is widely recognized as the first Major League Baseball game ever televised, while Speed (1994) — promoted with a tagline about rush hour — reached U.S. theaters just days before the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase turned Los Angeles freeways into wall‑to‑wall live TV. ...

This match day mixed betting terms, modern art, classical and popular music, European historical geography, 18th-century literature, and space-age tech history—exactly the kind of spread that can feel random at first glance but is perfect for building broad cultural fluency. Several questions relied less on deep niche knowledge and more on catching subtle clues (like a misleading number in a gambling term or a portmanteau hinting at telecommunications and stars). ...

Match Day 8 Overview This match day spans astronomy, 1970s singer‑songwriter pop, basic math vocabulary, whisky geography and etymology, early colonial myths, and classic TV history. You were asked to recognize the Moon’s dark ‘seas’ (lunar maria), identify John Denver from biographical and lyrical clues, recall that a multiplicative inverse is usually called a reciprocal, spot the Gaelic word glen in Scotch whisky names, connect a Muisca gold ritual to the El Dorado legend, and place Edna Garrett in the spinoff The Facts of Life. ...

This match day pulls you through a wide sweep of topics: a Latin legal‑financial term (pro rata), a contemporary blockbuster video game franchise (Monster Hunter), 19th‑century imperial Brazil’s early adoption of the telephone, cinema sound branding (THX’s Deep Note), classic Heian‑period Japanese literature (The Pillow Book), and comparative military institutions (West Point, Sandhurst, Saint‑Cyr). Pro rata is a Latin phrase meaning “in proportion,” widely used in law and finance to describe distributions such as dividends according to each holder’s share of the whole.1 The Monster Hunter series is Capcom’s long‑running action role‑playing franchise, with Monster Hunter Wilds (2025) becoming the fastest‑selling title in company history, outperforming earlier hits Monster Hunter: World (2018) and Monster Hunter Rise (2021). ...

This match day strings together a surprisingly coherent story about movement and connection: 19th‑century express companies racing cash and parcels across a growing United States; atoms arranged in repeating 3‑D patterns; superyachts and basketball arcs; voyages across the Tasman Sea; and a pan‑European song contest watched by hundreds of millions.1 On the history and geography side, Q1 and Q5 both reward knowing how proper names get reused in business and place‑names: Wells and Fargo move from express routes to a global bank and credit‑card brand, while Abel Tasman’s name anchors an island, a sea, and a national park, alongside the revived Indigenous name Lutruwita for Tasmania.2 Science and sport questions (crystal systems, the 6.75 m three‑point line) hinge on recognizing classification schemes and standard measurements that show up across disciplines.3 Pop‑culture items (Below Deck and Eurovision’s “Wasted Love”) illustrate how a single vivid phrase or cultural institution can define a work’s lasting association.4 ...

This match day ranges widely: from Indian religious practice and European Christian theater to color theory, auteur cinema, scandalous French literature, and the chemistry of anesthetics. The opening question on mantra draws on Hindu and Buddhist meditation traditions, where sacred syllables like Om are repeatedly chanted as potent tools for focus and spiritual power.1 The Oberammergau question then jumps to a very different kind of religious performance—the Passion Play that the Bavarian village vowed to stage every ten years after a 1633 plague outbreak, first performed in 1634 and still mounted on a decennial rhythm.2 Meanwhile, the color‑theory problem tests applied physics and design: in both additive RGB light mixing and subtractive CMY/CMYK printing, cyan sits opposite red, so red and cyan together cancel to neutral (white in light, dark/black in print), giving maximum contrast.3 ...

Match Day 4 Overview This set leans heavily on how names—of diseases, financial indexes, dog breeds, historical events, TV performers, and snack brands—encode deeper meanings you can unpack. Kwashiorkor turns a Ghanaian Ga phrase about a deposed older child into the classic example of severe protein malnutrition in recently weaned toddlers,[^1] while VIX compresses the idea of option‑implied stock‑market volatility into a single ticker.[^2] Perro salchicha (sausage dog) and Hijra (Arabic for migration) show how straightforward translation can identify a dachshund and Muhammad’s 622 journey from Mecca to Yathrib/Medina.[^3] ...

This match day ranges widely across space and time, but it has a strong spine of European history and culture running through the early questions, anchored by a Reformation‑era assembly on the Rhine, the mountain backbone of Italy, and the shock‑tactic art of Britain’s 1990s Young British Artists.[^1][^2][^3] You then pivot into how ideas and stories are packaged and sold—through Allen Lane’s cheap, high‑quality Penguin paperbacks and Cameron Crowe’s grunge‑era film Singles that made a real Seattle apartment building at 1820 E. Thomas St. into a Gen‑X cultural touchstone.[^4][^5] ...

This match day mixed together literature, pure math, classical history, modern geography, and even some pop culture and lifestyle design—very much a “something for everyone” set. Several questions hinged on recognizing a key shared name across very different domains (Q1, Q5, Q6), while others relied on well-defined terminology that often shows up in textbooks or basic science/math curricula (Q2, Q3). If any of these felt like “I’ve seen that word before but couldn’t quite place it,” that’s a great sign you’re close to locking them in for the future. ...