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:

The German philosopher who first proposed the idea of the superman was declared what in 1889?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):

A search for [samara fruits] shows that only a few kinds of trees have samaras–ash and maple among them. A quick search for [maple violins] teaches us that maple is often used in musical instrument construction, and that it is the only tree that does all these things.