Games/Sport

Today’s LL Study Guide ranges from Pablo Picasso’s tongue-twisting baptismal name and his unprecedented 90th‑birthday honor at the Louvre, to the tiny club of G‑rated Best Picture nominees standing in contrast to the X‑rated winner Midnight Cowboy. We also visit Leverkusen on the Rhine, where works team Bayer 04 Leverkusen finally shed their “Neverkusen” curse under Xabi Alonso while backed by pharmaceutical giant Bayer, and dig into the rise of fast‑fashion juggernaut Shein from its ZZKKO and SheInside days. Rounding things out: the conservation rescue of Texas Longhorn cattle by the U.S. Forest Service, the University of Texas mascot Bevo, and how Frank Sinatra’s “doo-be-doo-be-doo” scat on “Strangers in the Night” gave Scooby‑Doo his name and a half‑century of pop‑culture life. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily review. I’m glad you’re here. We’re walking through another six-pack of questions, and today’s set really hops around: modern art, movie ratings, German soccer, fast fashion, Texas cattle, and a cartoon Great Dane named by Frank Sinatra. So if you felt a little whiplash playing this match day, that’s totally fair. As always, if you want the full write-up, extra examples, and links, you can check the study notes on our website at L L Study Guide dot com. I’ll just hit the key stories and connections here so you can listen on the go. ...

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 moves quickly between big science, big media, and big money, anchored by six very “global” answers. At one end you have CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a 27‑km ring under the French–Swiss border that is the world’s largest and highest‑energy particle accelerator and the site of the 2012 Higgs boson discovery; its superconducting magnets are cooled to an ultra‑cold 1.9 K, even colder than the 2.7 K cosmic microwave background of deep space. At the other end you have the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage between Iran and Oman that connects the Gulf of Oman to the Persian Gulf and carries roughly 20% of global oil flows, making it one of the most strategically sensitive waterways on Earth. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide review podcast for another match day. I’m glad you’re here. We’re going to walk through all six questions from this day, hit the correct answers, and give you just enough background so the facts actually stick the next time you see something similar. If you want the full write‑ups, extra links, and source notes, those are all waiting for you in the study notes on our website at L L study guide dot com. Here in the audio, we’ll keep things tight and conversational so you can listen on the go. ...

Overview This match day leans heavily into the long 19th century, when science, literature, and symbolism were all exploding at once. Three questions sit squarely in that period: Lewis Carroll’s 1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland introduces the Queen of Hearts as a living playing card; Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo pilots the submarine Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869–70); and, in 1868, Janssen and Lockyer detect an unknown element in the Sun’s spectrum, later named helium and only isolated on Earth in 1895. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily review. I’m glad you’re here. This episode is all about Match Day 19 from season 107, and it’s a really fun mix: classic literature, nuclear history, deep‑cut linguistics, and even the most remote spot in the ocean. As always, if you want links, visuals, and deeper dives on anything we talk about, you can check the full study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. ...

This match day swings from Cold War geopolitics to ancient astronomy and music, then forward to 19th‑century Russian literature and a 21st‑century Olympic legend. The Grenada question anchors the set in 1983’s U.S.-led invasion, Operation Urgent Fury, launched after a hard‑line Revolutionary Military Council seized power and executed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, installing a short‑lived Marxist junta in the small Windward Islands nation. On the other end of the timeline, Katie Ledecky’s 2010 loss in a local 1500 m freestyle is now famous mainly because it marked the start of a 15‑year unbeaten streak and helped shape the career of the most decorated American woman in Olympic history. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily review. I’m glad you’re here. Today we’re walking through Match Day 16, and this one really stretches across time and space: Cold War politics in the Caribbean, ancient music and constellations, classic geometry, Russian literature, and a modern Olympic legend. As always, if you want the full notes, links, and deeper dives, you can check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com after you listen. ...