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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. ...

This match day leans heavily on 20th‑century media and institutions: the first televised Major League Baseball game in 1939, a German chocolate brand defined by its square bar, the financial performance metric alpha, a 1994 action blockbuster, two long‑running Newport music festivals, and U.S. presidents’ congressional careers. Q1 and Q4 both sit at the intersection of sports, news, and entertainment: the Dodgers–Reds game at Ebbets Field on August 26, 1939 is widely recognized as the first Major League Baseball game ever televised, while Speed (1994) — promoted with a tagline about rush hour — reached U.S. theaters just days before the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase turned Los Angeles freeways into wall‑to‑wall live TV. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast, your quick, friendly review after a day of LearnedLeague matches. I’m here to walk you through Match Day 11. We’ll hit all six questions, talk about the answers, and pull out a few patterns you can bank for future trivia. Think of this as the audio companion to your post‑match learning routine. If you ever want to go deeper, with full study notes, links, and extra examples, you can always check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. I’ll mention the site a few times, but I won’t read any URLs out loud, so just remember: llstudyguide.com for all the details. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LearnedLeague Study Guide podcast, your quick post-match review to turn those brain cramps into future gets. I’m your host, and in this episode we’re walking through Match Day 10 from Season 107. As always, the idea here isn’t just to relive the pain or the glory of today’s questions, but to lock in some patterns that you can reuse later. If you want all the extra detail, links, and deep dives, you’ll find them in the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. I’ll mention a few side topics as we go, and you can just remember to check the show notes on the site instead of trying to write anything down. ...

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. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LearnedLeague Study Guide podcast, your quick, friendly review session after match day. I’m here to walk you through today’s six questions so you can lock in the facts, the patterns, and a few extra connections for next time. If you want to go deeper on anything we talk about, remember: the full study notes with links and resources are up at llstudyguide.com. You don’t need to write anything down right now; just listen, and you can always check the study notes on the website later. ...

This match day strings together a surprisingly coherent story about movement and connection: 19th‑century express companies racing cash and parcels across a growing United States; atoms arranged in repeating 3‑D patterns; superyachts and basketball arcs; voyages across the Tasman Sea; and a pan‑European song contest watched by hundreds of millions.1 On the history and geography side, Q1 and Q5 both reward knowing how proper names get reused in business and place‑names: Wells and Fargo move from express routes to a global bank and credit‑card brand, while Abel Tasman’s name anchors an island, a sea, and a national park, alongside the revived Indigenous name Lutruwita for Tasmania.2 Science and sport questions (crystal systems, the 6.75 m three‑point line) hinge on recognizing classification schemes and standard measurements that show up across disciplines.3 Pop‑culture items (Below Deck and Eurovision’s “Wasted Love”) illustrate how a single vivid phrase or cultural institution can define a work’s lasting association.4 ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast, your quick post-match companion for LearnedLeague. I’m here to walk you through today’s six questions, talk about what was going on in each clue, and give you a few hooks so you remember this stuff next time it pops up. If you want full study notes, extra examples, and links to go deeper, everything we talk about here is written up on the website at llstudyguide.com. You don’t need to take notes while you listen; just check the study notes on the website later. ...

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. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LearnedLeague Study Guide podcast, your quick post-match companion to keep those trivia wires firing. I’m here to walk you through Match Day 2 from Season 107. The idea here is simple: we’ll revisit each of the six questions, talk about the correct answers, and give you just enough extra context so those facts really stick the next time you see them. If you want the full deep dive with links, names, maps, and more, just check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com after you listen. ...