Bus/Econ

This Study Guide ranges from Bob Barker’s animal‑rights sign‑off on The Price Is Right, to Brisbane’s role as host of the 2032 Summer Olympics, following Melbourne 1956 and Sydney 2000 as Australia’s third Summer Games city. You’ll also meet Alison Krauss’s bluegrass band Union Station, explore Disney’s blockbuster acquisitions of Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox, tour world puppet‑theatre traditions from Japan, France, Russia, Indonesia, and Turkey, and finish atop New York’s neo‑Gothic Woolworth Building, once the tallest skyscraper in the world and headquarters for the F. W. Woolworth chain. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast for your daily trivia review. I’m glad you’re here. We’re walking through six questions from today’s match, keeping it short, friendly, and focused on the stories that help the facts stick. If you want the full write‑up, extra examples, and links, you can always check the study notes on our website at L L Study Guide dot com. Let’s jump in with Question one. ...

This match day leans heavily on names that carry a lot of history: Indonesia’s planned capital Nusantara (and its long‑time capital Jakarta), the rowing town of Henley-on-Thames, America’s Yellowstone, Wall Street’s “Magnificent Seven,” the hyper‑polysemous word set, and the entertainment juggernaut known simply as SNL. Indonesia is in the midst of relocating its capital from Jakarta to the purpose‑built city of Nusantara in East Kalimantan under the 2022 State Capital Act; Henley-on-Thames hosts the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta and lends its name to the Henley shirt; Yellowstone National Park, named from the French rendering Roche Jaune of the Yellowstone River, was established in 1872 as the first U.S. national park and is widely considered the first in the world; Michael Hartnett of Bank of America borrowed the title of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven to label the mega‑cap tech stocks Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla; Guinness World Records and the OED highlight set as having 430 senses in the 1989 second edition; and NBC’s 2025 documentary Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music makes explicit how central “SNL” has become as a three‑letter brand. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily review. I’m glad you’re here. We’re talking through Match Day 18 from season 107, and this one is very “name heavy” – country names, town names, brand-y nicknames, and even a tiny three-letter TV institution. As always, if you want links, maps, videos, or deeper dives, all the study notes are waiting for you at llstudyguide.com. Think of this as your quick audio walkthrough, and the website as your deep reference library. ...

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. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LearnedLeague Study Guide podcast, your quick post-match review to turn those brain cramps into future gets. I’m your host, and in this episode we’re walking through Match Day 10 from Season 107. As always, the idea here isn’t just to relive the pain or the glory of today’s questions, but to lock in some patterns that you can reuse later. If you want all the extra detail, links, and deep dives, you’ll find them in the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. I’ll mention a few side topics as we go, and you can just remember to check the show notes on the site instead of trying to write anything down. ...

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). ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LearnedLeague Study Guide podcast. This is your quick, post‑match companion to help you turn each match day into a little learning session. I’ll walk you through all six questions from today’s match, talk about the answers, and give you just enough extra context so they really stick. If you want deeper dives, links, and sources, all of that is waiting for you in the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. ...

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] ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast, your quick, post‑match companion for LearnedLeague. I’m here to walk you through Match Day 4, help you lock in the things you missed, and strengthen the things you got right. Remember, this is meant to be short, friendly, and something you can listen to while you’re doing other things. If you want the full write‑ups, links, and deeper dives, you’ll find all of that in the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. ...