Bus/Econ

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 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). ...

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] ...