Math

Match Day 11 Overview This set spans theatre, mathematics, women’s pro sports, country music, American literature, and modern diplomatic history. You met the soliloquy, a core dramatic device whose name comes from Latin solus (alone) + loqui (to speak), describing a character speaking thoughts aloud to the audience. From there the day jumped to Leonhard Euler’s famous Seven Bridges of Königsberg puzzle, which helped launch graph theory by formalizing the impossibility of walking a route that crossed each of Königsberg’s seven bridges over the Pregel (now Pregolya) River exactly once. ...

Match Day 8 Overview This match day spans astronomy, 1970s singer‑songwriter pop, basic math vocabulary, whisky geography and etymology, early colonial myths, and classic TV history. You were asked to recognize the Moon’s dark ‘seas’ (lunar maria), identify John Denver from biographical and lyrical clues, recall that a multiplicative inverse is usually called a reciprocal, spot the Gaelic word glen in Scotch whisky names, connect a Muisca gold ritual to the El Dorado legend, and place Edna Garrett in the spinoff The Facts of Life. ...

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. ...