| | Good evening. In tonight’s edition: - 🏊 Golden anniversary
- 🧩 New puzzles
- 🧑🏫 GOAT fictional teachers
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📜 September 4: On This Day in History |  | Good as gold |  Image: Rich Clarkson | Each of the following events happened on September 4. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) US swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record-high seventh gold medal at the Munich Summer Olympics, swimming the fly leg of the 400m medley relay and helping his team set a new world record time.
- B) Ford introduces the Edsel model, named in honor of Henry Ford’s son. The car suffers from quality, reliability, and design issues, with the name soon becoming synonymous with failure.
- C) Kelly Clarkson, a 20-year-old cocktail waitress from Texas, wins the inaugural season of American Idol. Clarkson is awarded a recording contract for her victory, and goes on to sell millions of albums and establish a successful music career.
- D) The search engine Google is formally incorporated by founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in their friend (and future YouTube CEO) Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California.
Hint: Edsel was Henry Ford’s first (and only) child |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | Somewhere over the Conjoiner | Today’s puzzle is chasing a pot of gold. Solve the clues to see the treasure that is waiting for you at the end of the Conjoiner! The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Multicolor spectrum arch that appears after a rainstorm”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniToday’s mini is sailing under the black flag. Climb aboard and hunt down every answer. SudokuWake up your brain, it's puzzle time. Solve every square one through nine. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | What’s the greatest childhood drink of all time? |  Image: GOATWars | Before coffee, energy drinks, and sparkling water, we had drinks that were basically sugar, food coloring, and happiness. You’ve got Capri Sun requiring surgical precision to get the straw in, Kool-Aid turning every summer afternoon a different color, and SunnyD somehow convincing us it was orange juice. Now the top options are going head-to-head on GOATWars, where you get to pick which drink deserves the front spot in your childhood fridge. Showdowns include: |
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🏆 Wednesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 🧑🏫 THE GREATEST FICTIONAL TEACHER OF ALL TIME - Yoda (Star Wars)
- Mr. Miyagi (The Karate Kid)
- Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
- Mr. Kotter (Welcome Back, Kotter)
- Ms. Frizzle (The Magic School Bus)
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | B, A, D, C - B) 1957 – Ford introduces its soon-to-be infamous Edsel model, named in honor of Henry Ford’s son.
- A) 1972 – US swimmer Mark Spitz earns a record-high seventh gold medal at the Olympic Games.
- D) 1998 – Google is formally incorporated in a Menlo Park, CA, garage.
- C) 2002 – Kelly Clarkson wins the inaugural season of American Idol.
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