Science

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 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 ...

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, fill in some background, and give you a few patterns to watch for next time similar topics pop up. If you want to go deeper on anything we talk about, the full study notes with links and extra resources are waiting for you at llstudyguide.com. Think of this audio as your highlight reel, and the website as your full playbook. ...

Match Day 4 Overview This set leans heavily on how names—of diseases, financial indexes, dog breeds, historical events, TV performers, and snack brands—encode deeper meanings you can unpack. Kwashiorkor turns a Ghanaian Ga phrase about a deposed older child into the classic example of severe protein malnutrition in recently weaned toddlers,[^1] while VIX compresses the idea of option‑implied stock‑market volatility into a single ticker.[^2] Perro salchicha (sausage dog) and Hijra (Arabic for migration) show how straightforward translation can identify a dachshund and Muhammad’s 622 journey from Mecca to Yathrib/Medina.[^3] ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast, your quick, post‑match companion for LearnedLeague. I’m here to walk you through Match Day 4, help you lock in the things you missed, and strengthen the things you got right. Remember, this is meant to be short, friendly, and something you can listen to while you’re doing other things. If you want the full write‑ups, links, and deeper dives, you’ll find all of that in the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. ...

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. ...