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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SPOILER WARNING:
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:
If you’re comparing a boat with a displacement hull to one with a planing hull, is the stern of the faster vessel flat or V-shaped?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search for [Ecce Ancilla Domini] to find that the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti used his sister, Christina Rossetti, as the model for Mary. A search for [Christina Rossetti carol] reveals that she wrote the verse to “In the Bleak Midwinter.” The verse was set to music by Gustav Holst, who also composed the orchestral suite “The Planets.”
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