A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Friday, Oct. 28

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Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

SPOILER WARNING:
As a test, we’re going to leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!

Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience.

And now, without further ado, we give you…

TODAY’S PUZZLE:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once visited the slopes of the highest peak in Marin County, California. On that mountain, a “Gravity Man” commanded a special kind of car for the descent. What kind of car ride was it?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):

Search [magician died 1926] to learn that Harry Houdini passed away from peritonitis in 1926. Search [Harry Houdini] to find that he was born Erich Weiss in Hungary, 1874.

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