Television

Today’s LL Study Guide ranges from Pablo Picasso’s tongue-twisting baptismal name and his unprecedented 90th‑birthday honor at the Louvre, to the tiny club of G‑rated Best Picture nominees standing in contrast to the X‑rated winner Midnight Cowboy. We also visit Leverkusen on the Rhine, where works team Bayer 04 Leverkusen finally shed their “Neverkusen” curse under Xabi Alonso while backed by pharmaceutical giant Bayer, and dig into the rise of fast‑fashion juggernaut Shein from its ZZKKO and SheInside days. Rounding things out: the conservation rescue of Texas Longhorn cattle by the U.S. Forest Service, the University of Texas mascot Bevo, and how Frank Sinatra’s “doo-be-doo-be-doo” scat on “Strangers in the Night” gave Scooby‑Doo his name and a half‑century of pop‑culture life. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily review. I’m glad you’re here. We’re walking through another six-pack of questions, and today’s set really hops around: modern art, movie ratings, German soccer, fast fashion, Texas cattle, and a cartoon Great Dane named by Frank Sinatra. So if you felt a little whiplash playing this match day, that’s totally fair. As always, if you want the full write-up, extra examples, and links, you can check the study notes on our website at L L Study Guide dot com. I’ll just hit the key stories and connections here so you can listen on the go. ...

This Study Guide ranges from Bob Barker’s animal‑rights sign‑off on The Price Is Right, to Brisbane’s role as host of the 2032 Summer Olympics, following Melbourne 1956 and Sydney 2000 as Australia’s third Summer Games city. You’ll also meet Alison Krauss’s bluegrass band Union Station, explore Disney’s blockbuster acquisitions of Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox, tour world puppet‑theatre traditions from Japan, France, Russia, Indonesia, and Turkey, and finish atop New York’s neo‑Gothic Woolworth Building, once the tallest skyscraper in the world and headquarters for the F. W. Woolworth chain. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast for your daily trivia review. I’m glad you’re here. We’re walking through six questions from today’s match, keeping it short, friendly, and focused on the stories that help the facts stick. If you want the full write‑up, extra examples, and links, you can always check the study notes on our website at L L Study Guide dot com. Let’s jump in with Question one. ...

This match day moves quickly across domains: from cutting-edge nanomaterials (Vantablack) and the shifting brand names of HBO’s streaming services, to YA vampire fiction, the global art market, culinary spices, and a classic English word-oddity. Vantablack, developed by Surrey NanoSystems as a forest of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes that absorbs about 99.965% of visible light, sits at one scientific extreme. At the other end are humanistic and cultural topics: Stephenie Meyer’s four-book Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn), a 280‑year‑old auction house, and a 19th‑century opera aria. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast for Match Day twenty. I’m glad you’re here. We’re going to walk through all six questions from today, talk about the right answers, and, more importantly, what you can learn from them for future matches. Remember, if you want the full write‑ups, extra examples, and links, you can always check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide dot com. I’ll just call them the study notes or the show notes as we go. ...

This match day leans heavily on names that carry a lot of history: Indonesia’s planned capital Nusantara (and its long‑time capital Jakarta), the rowing town of Henley-on-Thames, America’s Yellowstone, Wall Street’s “Magnificent Seven,” the hyper‑polysemous word set, and the entertainment juggernaut known simply as SNL. Indonesia is in the midst of relocating its capital from Jakarta to the purpose‑built city of Nusantara in East Kalimantan under the 2022 State Capital Act; Henley-on-Thames hosts the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta and lends its name to the Henley shirt; Yellowstone National Park, named from the French rendering Roche Jaune of the Yellowstone River, was established in 1872 as the first U.S. national park and is widely considered the first in the world; Michael Hartnett of Bank of America borrowed the title of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven to label the mega‑cap tech stocks Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla; Guinness World Records and the OED highlight set as having 430 senses in the 1989 second edition; and NBC’s 2025 documentary Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music makes explicit how central “SNL” has become as a three‑letter brand. ...

This match day pulled together a wide range of knowledge: the structure of the Hawaiian alphabet, a live unfolding constitutional crisis in Venezuela, early‑2000s diet culture, classic TV history, camera technology, and contemporary film casting. The ʻokina question pushes you into phonetics and indigenous language preservation—Hawaiian officially treats the glottal stop as a full consonant and one of 13 letters in its modern alphabet, which is why you see it in spellings like Hawaiʻi and Oʻahu. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily review. I’m glad you’re here. We’re talking through Match Day 18 from season 107, and this one is very “name heavy” – country names, town names, brand-y nicknames, and even a tiny three-letter TV institution. As always, if you want links, maps, videos, or deeper dives, all the study notes are waiting for you at llstudyguide.com. Think of this as your quick audio walkthrough, and the website as your deep reference library. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily review. I’m glad you’re here. Today we’re walking through Match Day 17 from season 107. We’ve got a really nice mix: Hawaiian language, breaking political news, early‑2000s diet culture, classic TV, camera history, and a very busy Guatemalan movie star. As always, if you want the full write‑ups, timelines, and links, you can check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. What we’ll do here is hit the key facts, then give you a couple of patterns so you can recognize similar clues next time. ...