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Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast, your fast, friendly review for busy quizzers. We’re walking through Match Day 13 from season 107 today. As always, if you want the full write‑ups, extra links, and deeper dives, you can check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. This set really leans on names, initials, and labels doing a lot of the work, and it jumps all over the 20th century while it’s at it. We’ve got a New York literary institution, an ’80s superhero sequel, a misnamed dim sum favorite, a very famous grass, a hyphenated African country, and a long‑running family dictatorship in Central America. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast for another quick match day review. This is Match Day 12, and we’re going to walk through all six questions together. As always, if you want to go deeper, all the detailed study notes, links, and extra examples are waiting for you on our website at llstudyguide.com. Think of this episode as your friendly audio recap, and the study notes on the site as your deeper dive when you’ve got a screen in front of you. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast, your quick post-match companion for LearnedLeague. I’m here to walk you through today’s six questions, fill in some background, and give you a few patterns to watch for next time similar topics pop up. If you want to go deeper on anything we talk about, the full study notes with links and extra resources are waiting for you at llstudyguide.com. Think of this audio as your highlight reel, and the website as your full playbook. ...

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] ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LearnedLeague Study Guide podcast, your quick post‑match companion to get a little smarter after every day of trivia. I’m your host, and for the next little while we’re going to walk through all six questions from this match day. We’ll revisit the exact wording, talk through the correct answers, and then add just enough extra detail to make these clues stick in your memory for next time. ...