Theatre

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 pulls together a wide spectrum of cultural and technical knowledge: contemporary musical theatre (Avenue Q), decolonization-era world history (Điện Biên Phủ), mechanical engineering (the Wankel rotary engine), 2010s EDM (Avicii), fin‑de‑siècle Russian opera via “Flight of the Bumblebee,” and the Chicago School of architecture through Louis Sullivan. Two of the questions highlight turning points in modern history and technology: the French defeat at Điện Biên Phủ in 1954, which pushed France out of Indochina and led to the Geneva Accords and the temporary division of Vietnam at the 17th parallel, and Felix Wankel’s rotary engine, an elegant but commercially niche alternative to piston engines because of fuel‑economy and emissions challenges. The arts questions similarly focus on outsized influence: Avenue Q’s tiny cast beating blockbuster Wicked for Best Musical, a brief orchestral interlude from The Tale of Tsar Saltan becoming one of the most famous classical showpieces, and Sullivan’s Chicago skyscrapers giving architectural form to the maxim “form follows function.” ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide podcast, your quick audio companion for staying sharp between matches. I’m glad you’re here. Today we’re walking through Match Day 14 from Season 107. This set leans pretty hard into arts and culture, with some history and science mixed in. As always, if you want links, deeper dives, or to see everything written out, you can check the full study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...