GAMES/SPORT – In a game played on October 18, 1924, a University of Illinois halfback scored four touchdowns in the game’s first twelve minutes, against a University… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match Day 22 – Sept. 21, 2017”

POP MUSIC – Despite the musical reputation of its primary instrumentalist, the 1968 album Unfinished Music No. 1. Two Virgins. had a big impact (and is probably best remembered… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match Day 21- Sept. 20, 2017”

GAMES/SPORT – For most professional boxing sanctioning organizations, the weight class that sits between Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight, with a weight limit of 200 pounds, is known… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match Day 19 – Sept. 20, 2017”

SCIENCE – What is the medical name of the periodontal disease that is inflammation of the gums, indicated by redness, swelling, and bleeding, and which can lead… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match Day 18 – Sept. 19, 2017”

POP MUSIC – “Look What You Made Me Do,” released on August 24, 2017, is the first single from what Taylor Swift album, which is set for… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match Day 17 – Sept. 18, 2017”

TELEVISION – Flattened by a volcanic boulder, pummeled by a dodgeball throw, impaled on a flagpole, cooked in a microwave oven, frozen in carbonite by the CIA… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match day 16 – Sept. 15, 2017”

POP MUSIC – Carlton Ridenhour, William Jonathan Drayton, Jr., Norman Rogers, and Richard Griffin (as the Minister of Information and leader of the Security of the First… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match Day 15 – Sept. 14, 2017”

SCIENCE – The chemical element oganesson, whose name became official in November 2016, has the highest atomic number and highest atomic mass of all known (non-hypothetical) elements.… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match Day 14 – Sept, 13, 2017”

AMER HIST – From 1894 to 1900, Sanford B. Dole served as the first (and in the end, only) president of what republic? LANGUAGE – The name… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match day 13 – Sept. 12, 2017”

WORLD HIST – Followers of the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic Jalal ad-Din Rumi founded the Mevlevi, a Muslim order famous for their meditative ceremonial dance. This… Read more “Learned League 74 – Match Day 12 – Sept. 9, 2017”