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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 ...

This match day mixed together literature, pure math, classical history, modern geography, and even some pop culture and lifestyle design—very much a “something for everyone” set. Several questions hinged on recognizing a key shared name across very different domains (Q1, Q5, Q6), while others relied on well-defined terminology that often shows up in textbooks or basic science/math curricula (Q2, Q3). If any of these felt like “I’ve seen that word before but couldn’t quite place it,” that’s a great sign you’re close to locking them in for the future. ...