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:
A particular type of animal served as a lookout atop the Eiffel Tower during World War I. Which of the animal’s five senses made it the logical choice for the duty?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [China tunnel Pearl River] and find that the 10.8 km Shiziyang Tunnel is a railway tunnel designed for trains running at a speed of 350 km/hr. Use Google to divide 10.8 by 350 to find that it would take 0.03 of an hour. Query Google for [0.03 hours in minutes] to get a result of 1.8 minutes.
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