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:
At its top rate of speed, how many times in one hour of flying time does the world’s smallest hummingbird flap its wings?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search for [“Il Cenacolo”] to find that this is the Italian name for the painting of “The Last Supper.” Search [Last Supper painter] to find that it was done by Leonardo da Vinci. Search [da Vinci humidity invention] learn that he invented a hygrometer, using a ball of wool or cotton to absorb water from the air to give a measure of the relative humidity.
