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.
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:
How many lines were on each page of the famous book that was the first printed by the German inventor of the printing press?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [Chicxulub crater] to learn that it’s the site of the asteroid impact which scientists believe wiped out the dinosaurs. Search [dinosaur extinction rare metal] to learn that iridium, a metal rare on Earth but common in asteroids, has been found in the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, the layer of sedimentary rock from the time of the dinosaur extinction.
