Wonder whether you know where the following pearl of Topology first appeared: > Prove that at any instant of time you can find three isothermal points on the surface of the Earth that correspond to the vertices of an equilateral triangle. According to [somebody][1], all problems appeared once in the *Monthly*. Does that *dictum* applies to the above teaser, too? [1]: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/145475/what-is-the-source-of-this-erdos-quote