Geography

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 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 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. ...