Food/Drink

Today’s set jumps from the mirror-image border towns of Calexico and Mexicali to Henry VIII’s still‑used title “Defender of the Faith,” seen as F D on modern UK coins, then on to Osaka‑born conveyor‑belt sushi, the art-historical and Gen Z meanings of “glaze,” populist readings of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the groundbreaking hip‑hop trio Salt‑N‑Pepa. Each question is a doorway into a bigger story—about how languages evolve, how politics hide in fairy tales, how technologies like conveyor belts reshape eating, and how borderlands and women rappers alike can redefine cultural maps. ...

Podcast Script Hey there, and welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily recap. This is your quick audio walkthrough of today’s six questions, with just enough extra detail to help the facts actually stick for next time. If you want the full write‑ups, sources, and links, they’re all waiting for you in the study notes on our website at L L Study Guide dot com. Think of this as your commute‑friendly version, and the website as the deep dive. ...

Today’s LL Study Guide ranges from the real Scottish king Macbeth, who killed Duncan I near Elgin in 1040 and ruled until his own death in 1057, to the New Orleans po’ boy born in a 1929 streetcar strike, H.G. Wells’s 1895 coinage of the term “time machine,” and Spain’s largest Balearic island, Mallorca. You’ll also meet Ugandan-born Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani, whose post‑9/11 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim dissects how the Cold War and U.S. foreign policy shaped modern terrorism debates, and learn how the Japanese word tsunami (“harbour wave”) and the shoreline “withdrawal” that can precede it have become crucial parts of global hazard awareness. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide review podcast for another match day rundown. I’m glad you’re here. Today we’re traveling from medieval Scotland to New Orleans streetcars, Victorian sci fi, Mediterranean islands, New York City politics, and all the way out to the physics of giant ocean waves. As always, if you want the fuller write up, maps, film lists, and article links, you can check the study notes on our website at L L Study Guide dot com. ...

This match day moves quickly across domains: from cutting-edge nanomaterials (Vantablack) and the shifting brand names of HBO’s streaming services, to YA vampire fiction, the global art market, culinary spices, and a classic English word-oddity. Vantablack, developed by Surrey NanoSystems as a forest of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes that absorbs about 99.965% of visible light, sits at one scientific extreme. At the other end are humanistic and cultural topics: Stephenie Meyer’s four-book Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn), a 280‑year‑old auction house, and a 19th‑century opera aria. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast for Match Day twenty. I’m glad you’re here. We’re going to walk through all six questions from today, talk about the right answers, and, more importantly, what you can learn from them for future matches. Remember, if you want the full write‑ups, extra examples, and links, you can always check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide dot com. I’ll just call them the study notes or the show notes as we go. ...

This match day draws a neat arc from the everyday (the wheat in your pasta) through interwar international law, Civil War battlefields and baseball history, mid‑century short fiction, Ohio’s outsized role in American popular music, and a physics term that doubles as a sci‑fi plot device. The range rewards players who recognize how a single word or place name (durum, mandate, Kennesaw, flux) can carry precise technical meanings across very different domains. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast for another quick match day review. I’m glad you’re here. We’re going to walk through all six questions from this match, talk about the right answers, and, more importantly, lock in a few patterns and connections you can reuse next time you see something similar. If you want the full write-up, with links, sources, and extra examples, you can always check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. Think of this episode as your audio companion for busy moments, and the site as the deep dive for when you’re at a screen. ...

This match day pulls you across a wide swath of 20th‑ and 21st‑century knowledge: a New York literary magazine founded in 1963, a DC superhero sequel set in the Cold War year 1984, a classic Cantonese dim sum dish built on Japanese-named daikon radish, a pasture grass whose common name points to Kentucky, a West African capital appended to its country’s name, and the Somoza family dictatorship that ruled Nicaragua for over four decades. ...

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. ...