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.
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We 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:
Did more of this English king’s six marriages end with annulments or beheadings?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [first poem to use Spenserian stanza]. Find that Edmund Spenser first used it in his epic poem “The Faerie Queene.” Find also that every Spenserian stanza contains nine lines. Search [how many lines in The Faerie Queene] to find 36,000 lines. Use Google Calculator to divide 36,000 lines by 9. Get 4,000 nights or about 10.96 years.
