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As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so each morning at 12:01am ET you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING: As a test, we’re going to 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… TODAY’S PUZZLE:

I am the tragic child of the son of a glove maker. In one of my works, five people die by suicide and in another the title character and 13 others are killed. Who am I?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (HIGHLIGHT TO SEE):

Search [son of a glove maker]. Search [Titus Cornelius] and find he was a freed African slave living in New Jersey who fought on the Loyalist side during the American Revolution. Search [American Revolution king] to discover that King George III was king of Great Britain at the time.

As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so each morning at 12:01am ET you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING: As a test, we’re going to 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… TODAY’S PUZZLE:

Did Titus Cornelius fight for King George III?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (HIGHLIGHT TO SEE):

Search [how fast does pain travel in body]. Find nerve impulses for pain travel between .5 m/s and 3 m/s. Then search [speed of sound]. Find it is 340.29 m/s. Conclude you heard it before you felt it since the speed of sound is so much faster than nerve conduction speeds.

One of the primary reasons I garden is to fill my pantry with canned fruits and vegetables that are free of bpa and pesticides. Of all the different things I preserve, tomatoes are far and away the most-used garden ingredient in my household; it seems I’m constantly pulling a jar of some sort of tomato product or another out of the pantry.

In the past, I’ve planted as many as 40 tomato plants in a season and always had plenty for me as well as lots to share, but this year, I’m gardening in a new locale and in a much smaller space. Here on this small lot where full sun is scarce, there’s not room to wantonly plant excess. I need to know – roughly – how many tomato plants will yield enough fruit to fill my cupboards.

[To read more about Kris Bordessa’s gardening computations, head over to GeekMom.]