The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, are a group of immoral behaviors in Christian tradition that are considered the root of all other sins. Rather than isolated moral failings, they’re seen as habitual tendencies that corrupt the soul, distort one’s relationship with others, and lead a person further from God. Although not explicitly listed in this form in the Bible, their conceptual framework has played a central role in Christian theology, medieval philosophy, and Western literature.
The term “deadly” refers not only to spiritual danger but also to the way these sins corrupt the virtues necessary for a holy and balanced life. They are considered “capital” sins not because they are the worst offenses possible, but because they give rise to many others.
Historical Background of the Seven Deadly Sins
The earliest roots of this concept trace back to the 4th-century monk Evagrius Ponticus, a Christian ascetic who cataloged eight evil thoughts (logismoi) that plagued the spiritual life. His original list included gluttony, lust, avarice, sadness, anger, acedia (spiritual sloth), vainglory, and pride.
Evagrius’s writings were translated into Latin by John Cassian, a pivotal figure who introduced these monastic ideas to the Western Church. By the late 6th century, Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great) refined and condensed the list into the more familiar seven: he combined vainglory with pride, merged sadness with sloth, and introduced envy.
Later in the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas further clarified their theological significance in his Summa Theologica, describing them as “capital sins” because of their generative power to produce other sins. His work cemented the Seven Deadly Sins in Catholic doctrine and helped define their relationship to the virtues they oppose.
The Seven Deadly Sins and Their Meanings
1. Lust (Latin: Luxuria)
Lust refers to the disordered craving for sexual pleasure, but it can also include unhealthy desires for material things or power. Unlike healthy affection or romantic love, lust is self-serving and objectifies others for gratification. It’s linked with acts like adultery, fornication, pornography, and obsessive indulgence.
In Christian theology, lust damages the dignity of both the person indulging and the one being objectified. It clouds judgment, leads to betrayal, and distorts the sacred nature of relationships.
Virtue Opposed:Chastity — the practice of purity in thought and deed, respecting the dignity of others and oneself.
2. Gluttony (Latin: Gula)
Gluttony is the overconsumption of food, drink, or resources. In the ancient world, this sin was more than just eating too much — it was about the obsession with pleasure, the wasting of what others may need, and the disregard for self-control.
It also symbolizes broader wastefulness and selfishness. In spiritual terms, gluttony reflects a soul trying to fill a spiritual void with physical excess.
Virtue Opposed:Temperance — moderation and self-restraint in all things, especially physical desires.
3. Greed (Latin: Avaritia)
Greed, or avarice, is the insatiable desire for wealth or possessions. It’s not just about having money—it’s about loving money above all else, hoarding it, or pursuing it at the expense of justice or compassion. Greed dehumanizes people, reducing them to what they can give or take.
The New Testament frequently warns against the dangers of greed. In Luke 12:15, Jesus says, “Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
Virtue Opposed:Charity — selfless giving, love of others, and the prioritization of people over things.
4. Sloth (Latin: Acedia)
Sloth is often misunderstood as a synonym for laziness, but it actually has a deeper spiritual meaning. In early Christian texts, acedia referred to a kind of spiritual apathy—a failure to love God or pursue one’s spiritual duties. It can manifest as procrastination, indifference, or disengagement from life’s responsibilities.
Sloth paralyzes moral action. It causes people to give up the good they could do, not out of rebellion, but neglect.
Virtue Opposed:Diligence — a strong work ethic and the faithful pursuit of one’s responsibilities, both spiritual and worldly.
5. Wrath (Latin: Ira)
Wrath, or uncontrolled anger, turns the emotion of righteous indignation into a destructive force. While anger in itself is not always sinful, wrath loses control and seeks harm or revenge. It can cause violence, destroy relationships, and lead to hatred.
Jesus taught the importance of forgiveness and peacemaking, challenging followers to break the cycle of retaliation.
Virtue Opposed:Patience — endurance and calm in the face of suffering, injustice, or frustration.
6. Envy (Latin: Invidia)
Envy is the sorrow or resentment one feels over another’s good fortune. It differs from jealousy; while jealousy fears losing something, envy simply cannot bear others having what one lacks. It poisons the heart with bitterness, making love and gratitude nearly impossible.
Envy led Cain to murder Abel, Joseph’s brothers to sell him into slavery, and countless divisions between friends, families, and nations.
Virtue Opposed:Kindness — a generosity of spirit that celebrates others’ success and seeks their good.
7. Pride (Latin: Superbia)
Pride is widely considered the most dangerous of the Seven Deadly Sins. It is the inordinate belief in one’s superiority, often leading to disdain for others and rejection of divine authority. In Christian tradition, pride was the sin of Lucifer—the angel who refused to serve—and of Adam and Eve, who disobeyed God seeking to become “like gods.”
Pride blinds us to our own faults and blocks repentance, humility, and growth. C.S. Lewis called pride “the complete anti-God state of mind.”
Virtue Opposed:Humility — the proper recognition of one’s limitations, strengths, and need for God and community.
The Role of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christian Life
Unlike mortal sins, which are specific and action-based, the Seven Deadly Sins represent broader tendencies of the heart and mind. They are seen as deeply rooted inclinations that must be recognized, resisted, and replaced through spiritual discipline and virtue.
In both Catholic and Orthodox traditions, repentance (metanoia) and sacramental confession are important steps in breaking the grip of these sins. Regular examination of conscience often includes reflecting on how these tendencies may be active in one’s daily life.
The Seven Heavenly Virtues: The Antidotes
Each of the Seven Deadly Sins has a corresponding virtue, often referred to as the Seven Heavenly Virtues. These were compiled by early Christian thinkers as spiritual remedies:
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Not Ready To Make Nice – Dixie Chicks (Grammy for Record of the Year)
2007’s Retro Top 10 Hits
1. Apologize – Timbaland with OneRepublic
2. Crank That – Soulja Boy Tell’em
3.Fergalicious – Fergie
4. Rehab – Amy Winehouse
5. Lip Gloss – Lil Mama
6. 1234 – Feist
7. Beautiful Girls – Sean Kingston
8. Candyman – Christina Aguilera
9. Love Today – Mika
10. This Is Why I’m Hot – Mims
2007’s Dance Top 10 Hit List
1. Cupid Shuffle – Cupid
2. Cyclone – Baby Bash
3. Break It Off – Rihanna with Sean Paul
4. Give It To Me – Timbaland with Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake
5. Stronger – Kanye West
6. Pop Lock and Drop It – Huey
7. Wall To Wall – Chris Brown with T-Pain
8. Clothes Off! – Gym Class Heroes
9. Whine Up – Kat Deluna with Elephant Man
10. Walk It Out – Unk
2007’s Bubblegum Top 10 Hit List
1. Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani and Akon
2. What Time Is It – High School Musical 2
3. Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
4. Glamorous – Fergie
5. Teardrops On My Guitar – Taylor Swift
6. You Can’t Stop the Beat – Hairspray
7. Clumsy – Fergie
8. Potential Break Up Song – Aly & AJ
9. Crazy Car – The Naked Brothers Band
10. Year 3000 – Jonas Brothers
2007’s Pop Rock Top 10 Hit List
1. Hey There Delilah – The Plain White T’s
2. Cupid’s Chokehold – Gym Class Heroes
3. Misery Business – Paramore
4. Rockstar – Nickleback
5. Wake Up Call – Maroon 5
6. Paralyzer – Finger Eleven
7. Little Wonders – Rob Thomas
8. Honestly – Cartel
9. This Ain’t A Scene It’s An Arms Race – Fall Out Boy
1830 – President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which denied Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocated them.
1934 – In Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets were born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne
1936 – Alan Turing published On Computable Numbers.
1961 – Peter Benenson’s article The Forgotten Prisoners was published in several internationally read newspapers.
If you were born on May 28th, You were likely conceived the week of… September 4th (prior year)
The Dionne Quintuplets
The quintuplets were born two months premature, and the Ontario Government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets’ Guardianship Act, 1935 which made them Wards of the Crown until the age of 18. The Ontario government also profited by making them a tourist attraction.
The identical quintuplet girls were, in order of birth: Yvonne Édouilda Marie Dionne (died in 2001), Annette Lillianne Marie Allard (living), Cécile Marie Émilda Langlois (living), Émilie Marie Jeanne Dionne (died in 1954), Marie Reine Alma Houle (died in 1970)
May 28 is…
Brisket Day Hamburger Day
May 28 Birthday Quotes
“Nobody’s life is ever all balanced. It’s a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.” – Elisabeth Hasselbeck
“My father used to say to me, ‘Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you’ll be able to figure your way out of it.” – Rudy Giuliani
“He’s a guy who gets up at 6 a.m. regardless of what time it is.” – Lou Duva
“Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.” – Kylie Minogue
“You can sum up this sport (boxing) in two words: You never know.” – Lou Duva
May 28 Birthdays
1837 – Tony Pastor, American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner (died in 1908) 1888 – Jim Thorpe, American decathlete, football player, and coach (died in 1953) 1908 – Ian Fleming, English journalist and author (died in 1964) 1922 – Lou Duva, American boxer, trainer, and manager (died in 2017) 1944 – Rudy Giuliani, American lawyer and politician 1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, and actress 1977 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host and author 1978 – Jake Johnson, American actor 1983 – Roman Atwood, American YouTuber 1985 – Carey Mulligan, English actress 1999 – Cameron Boyce, American actor (died in 2019)
May 28 History
585 BC A solar eclipse occurred, as the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales predicted. Knowing this exact date helped historians find other exact and near-exact historical dates.
May 28, 1*81 Birthday (fictional) Kenneth Parcell, 30 Rock, TV
1892 John Muir organized the Sierra Club in San Francisco, California.
1897 Jell-o was introduced.
1902 Macmillan Press published Owen Wister’s The Virginian. The book made the American Cowboy an icon.
1908 May 28, 1908 Birthday (fictional) Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Baddie, James Bond, Books and Film
1928 The Dodge Brothers, Inc. and the Chrysler Corporation merged.
1935 John Steinbeck’s first successful novel, Tortilla Flat, was published.
1937 Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH, later renamed Volkswagenwerk, or Volkswagon was founded.
1937 The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, was officially opened to vehicles
1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed.
1966 #1 Hit May 28, 1966 – June 10, 1966: Percy Sledge – When A Man Loves A Woman
1969 Apollo 10 (May 18-26, 1969) Crew: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene Cernan
1974 Broadway Show – The Magic Show (Musical) Opened May 28, 1974
1983 #1 Hit May 28, 1983 – July 8, 1983: Irene Cara – Flashdance… What a Feeling
1987 Matthias Rust, a 19-year-old amateur pilot from West Germany, took off from Helsinki, Finland, in his Cessna and landed in Red Square, the heart of the Soviet Union.
1988 #1 Hit May 28, 1988 – June 17, 1988: George Michael – One More Try
1998 Former Saturday Night Live actor and comedian Phil Hartman was shot and killed by his wife Brynn in a murder/suicide.
1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper was put back on display. It is beggir than most people think – it is life-size, almost 29 feet wide.
2002 The last steel girder was removed from the original World Trade Center site, officially ending the cleanup with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
2016 #1 Hit – May 28, 2016 – June 3, 2016: Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop The Feeling!
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
A group of Ponies is called a String.
Why is it called Alvin and the Chipmunks if Alvin is also a chipmunk?
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.” – Charles M. Schulz
“Don’t settle for being an option; become a priority.” – Matt Mitchell
Poor people used to entertain rich people, now it’s the opposite. #richpeople #poorpeople
The Capital of South Africa is Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary)
“I won’t say anything because no one ever listens to me anyway. I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record. ” -Neil #TVQuotes
Most of the people who say that Wikipedia is an unreliable source of information believe that viral Facebook posts are credible news sources.
When I talk to someone on the phone, my voice is traveling faster than sound. #timewarp
The Seven Deadly Sins #4- Lust is a powerful craving for such as sex, power, and money.
With only 40 digits of PI, you could calculate the circumference of the entire universe to within a single hydrogen atom.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg.
1933 – The Century of Progress World’s Fair opened in Chicago.
1941 – The British navy sank the German battleship, Bismarck, in the North Atlantic near France, killing over 2,000 Germans.
1972 – The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed by United States President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty limited the US and USSR to 2 anti-ballistic missile complexes with 100 missiles each, and the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles was frozen at the then-existing levels.
If you were born on May 27th, You were likely conceived the week of… September 3rd (prior year)
10 Facts About Peter The Great
Peter the Great was born Pyotr Alekseyevich on June 9, 1672, in Moscow, Russia.
Peter married twice and had eleven children; he also had many children outside of wedlock.
Peter became co-tsar of Russia at the age of 10 in 1682; he became sole ruler of Russia in 1696 after the death of his older brother, Ivan V.
In an early attempt to modernize the Russian government, he ordered all military and court officials to shave their beards and wear “modern” (European) clothing.
He created a “beard tax” for those who would not shave.
He also modernized the Russian alphabet, introduced the Julian calendar and established the first Russian newspaper.
With access to the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas, Peter created the Russian Navy.
Peter was the tallest Tsar ever; it is estimated that he was six feet, seven or eight inches in height.
While visiting Europe, he was disguised as a simple carpenter named “Peter Mikhailov”.
He died without a will or heir. While dying of uremia he managed to scrawl “Leave all to…” By default, wife #3, Catherine succeeded him on the throne
May 27 is…
Grape Popsicle Day Sun Screen Day
May 27 Birthday Quotes
“Never be a minion, always be an owner.” – Cornelius Vanderbilt
“We don’t always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.” – Christopher Lee
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” – Harlan Ellison
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” – Rachel Carson
“I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.” – Jack McBrayer
“Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?” – Wild Bill Hickok
“In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.” – Vincent Price
May 27 Birthdays
1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (died in 1877) 1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American folk hero (died in 1876) 1907 – Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died in 1964) 1911 – Vincent Price, American actor (died in 1993) 1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor (died in 2015) 1923 – Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate 1934 – Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter (died in 2018) 1935 – Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955 1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor 1973 – Jack McBrayer, American comedic actor 1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor and singer
May 27 History
1199 – John (December 24, 1166 – October 19, 1216) became King of England. He’s the one who signed The Magna Carta, which was the first document to offer people individual rights.
May 27, 1723 (fiction) Sharpsville was destroyed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, TV
1796 – The patent (#X0116) for a piano was issued to James Sylvanus McLean of New Jersey, for “an improvement in piano fortes.”
1890 – Two U.S. patents (#428,750,#428,751) for the first jukebox were issued to Louis Glass and his business associate, William S. Arnold for a “coin actuated attachment for phonographs.”
1896 (Tornado) St. Louis and East St. Louis, Missouri.
1919 – Pyrex glass was issued a patent (#1,304,623). The inventors Eugene C. Sullivan and William C. Taylor for Corning Glass Works.
1930 – Masking Tape was patented (#1,760,820) by Richard G. Drew of St. Paul, Minnesota, for his employer, 3M.
1931 – Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took man’s first trip (in a pressurized cabin) into the stratosphere when they rode their balloon to an altitude of 51,800 feet.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company released the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County, California, opened. Today was “Pedestrian Day” – cars were allowed the following day.
1963 – Bob Dylan’s second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, was released.
1967 – Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline launched the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy.
1972 #1 Hit May 27, 1972 – June 2, 1972: The Chi-Lites – Oh Girl
1983 – Benton Fireworks Disaster, Tennessee
1986 – Dragon Quest, the first major role-playing video game, was released in Japan.
1987 – U2 played in Rome so loud that they set off earthquake alarms in 2 different neighborhoods.
May 27, 1988 – Microsoft Windows 2.10 was released.
1994- The Arsenio Hall Show came to an end on FOX
1994 – The National League and American League Baseball MVPs were Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas, respectively. Jeff and Frank were both born on the exact same day: May 27, 1968.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
#1 Hit May 27, 2017 – September 15, 2017: Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber – Despacito
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
If Superman didn’t stop Lex Luther’s real estate scam, California would have plenty of water.
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.” – Markus Herz
Dogs are always the first to notice paranormal activity in movies, so ghosts must have a distinctive smell. #science
Actress Liv Tyler was born Liv Rundgren, raised by Todd Rundgren, and learned Steven Tyler was her biological father at age 8.
1988 Trivia: Dive Into the Pop Culture and Iconic Moments of This Electrifying Year!
1988 was packed with unforgettable moments in movies, music, TV, and world events. This trivia page is your ultimate challenge—see how much you remember about this game-changing year! Whether you’re a trivia buff or a lover of all things ’80s, this quiz will test your knowledge of the highlights that made 1988 so special.
Think you’ve mastered 1988? Answer questions like What animated film broke records and redefined animation? Which pop star released a chart-topping album that cemented their legacy? What TV show debuted to massive acclaim, and which Olympic event had the world glued to their screens?
Here’s some bonus trivia to set the stage for your quiz:
Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, dominated the box office and won the Best Picture Oscar.
The world watched in awe as Jamaica’s bobsled team competed in the Winter Olympics, inspiring the future Disney film Cool Runnings.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a groundbreaking mix of live-action and animation, introduced audiences to the unforgettable Jessica Rabbit.
Bobby McFerrin’s hit single Don’t Worry, Be Happy became the first acappella song to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Nintendo released the Super Mario Bros. 2 video game in North America, expanding Mario’s adventures into surreal new territories.
1988 wasn’t just about entertainment but also a year of cultural shifts and historical milestones. George H.W. Bush was elected President of the United States, while NASA’s Space Shuttle program returned to flight with the launch of Discovery after the Challenger disaster.
Whether you’re brushing up for a trivia challenge or taking a nostalgic trip back to one of the most dynamic years of the ‘80s, this page is packed with surprises. From blockbuster films to game-changing innovations, 1988 is a year worth revisiting.
Are you ready to test your knowledge and relive the pop culture magic of 1988? Jump in now and see if you can ace this trivia!
1. What 1998 film told the story of Raymond and Charlie Babbitt?
2. Who were the stars of Rain Man?
3. ON TV, what is Matlock’s full name?
4. What well-known children’s author published the book Matilda in 1988?
5. Who was the Pope in 1988?
6. In Beetlejuice, what is the name of the handbook given to the recently deceased?
7. Who is Garfield’s owner, known for his awkward social skills and love for his pets?
8. What does Homer Simpson say when he makes a dumb mistake?
9. Name the two headline professional wrestlers who competed on The Main Event on NBC, marking the historic return of professional wrestling to network prime-time television for the first time since 1955 – one point for each correct name.
10. Name the highest-grossing film of 1988.
11. Name the actor who portrayed Officer Tom Hanson, one of the lead characters on TV’s 21 Jump Street.
12. Name the Microsoft program used from 1987 to 2009; its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database management system.
13. Name the character, a purple and green Tyrannosaurus found on VHS before his television debut in 1992.
14. Who was Cheers’s original owner and bartender in the first season?
15. Who was the biggest musical artist of 1988?
16. Death row inmate Gary Gilmore reportedly inspired this popular tagline. Say the Phrase. HINT: Nike
17. Nike also owns a logo called “Jumpman,” an athlete’s silhouette. Name the athlete.
18. Which actor portrayed Assistant District Attorney Dan Fielding on Night Court?
19. What TV network broadcast the Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games from Calgary?
20. Can you name the spokestoon for Camel cigarettes, introduced in 1988?
21. Which 1988 film features a con artist duo played by Steve Martin and Michael Caine?
22. What is the name of the fictional news magazine show that Murphy Brown works for?
23. The Energizer Bunny was first created as a parody of what?
24. What groundbreaking animated Japanese film was released in 1988 and became a cult classic worldwide?
25. Who won the World Series in 1988?
26. WABC’s The Morning Show debuted its national syndication under its new title. What was it called?
27. Name the actor who played Eddie Valiant, the private detective in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
28. Which actor joined the cast of Growing Pains in 1991 as Luke Brower, a homeless teenager taken in by the Seaver family?
29. Which future Hollywood star made a guest appearance as Carol’s boyfriend, Jeff, in the 1988 season of Growing Pains?
30. Which turtle is the leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
31. Who are the Conner family’s three children introduced in the first season of Rosanne? You get one point for each, which you can name.
32. The Coca-Cola Company created this to compete with Gatorade. Name that sports drink.
33. Which iconic American retailer, known for its catalogs, filed for bankruptcy in 1988?
34. What 1988 film stars Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends?
35. What was the name of the comic book publisher that originally released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
36. In The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, who plays the villain Vincent Ludwig?
37. Name the two Senators who participated in the 1988 vice presidential debate.
38. “Read my lips: no new taxes” was a phrase by American presidential candidate George H. W. Bush. Where did he say it?
39. Name the annual Discovery Channel event that started on July 14, 1988.
40. You get one point for each Rambo film in the franchise you can name.
41. Who directed the 1988 film Willow?
42. The Microsoft Windows 1988 release came out in two versions, Windows/286 and Windows/386, but with the same name. What was it called?
43. What was the first film broadcast on TNT, the fourth cable network owned by Turner Broadcasting? HINT: It was Ted Turner’s favorite film.
44. What game is Jessica Rabbit accused of playing with Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
45. Who was the President in 1988?
46. What 1988 film earned Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito the most money in their careers?
47. In 1962, Topps released a series of cards called Mars Attacks! They released another set of Attack! cards in 1988. Name that card series.
48. Which Full House character has the catchphrase “How rude!”?
49. 1988’s Crocodile Dundee II was the second of two sequels for Crocodile Dundee. Name the third.
50. You can get one point for each of the two starring actors in the Crocodile Dundee trilogy.
51. How many people lived in the World in 1988?
52. How many people lived in the United States in 1988?
53. In what year is the pilot episode of The Wonder Years set?
54. This 1988 film featured Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall (also in various roles), James Earl Jones, and John Amos. Name that film.
55. What team won the Super Bowl in 1988?
56. Name the film that film received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (Tom Hanks) and Best Original Screenplay.
57. Name the media franchise that featured Detective Sergeant Franklin “Frank” Drebin.
58. Name the actor who played Frank Drebin.
59. Who was the infamous murderer interviewed on Geraldo Rivera’s live special Murder: Live from Death Row?
60. What Oscar-winning director appeared as an Elvis Presley impersonator on The Golden Girls?
61. Name the performer who had a “contractual first right of refusal” for playing the role of John McClane in Die Hard.
62. Die Hard (1988) had four sequels. You get one point for each, which you can name.
63. Who is the mascot of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association?
64. Name the skit (and later film franchise) featuring Garth Algar and Wayne Campbell.
65. Who was the biggest solo musical artist of the 1980s?
66. What was the Bestselling Fiction Book in 1988?
67. What was the Biggest Number One Song of 1988?
68. What is the name of the Rescue Rangers‘ primary mode of transportation, an aircraft made from household items?
69. What do you call the athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners attempt to get from one point to another in the fastest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment and often while performing feats of acrobatics?
70. This reggae pop song first hit the Billboard Top 40 charts in January1984 and didn’t reach the number one spot until October 15, 1988. Name that tune, Hint: It was a minor hit for Neil Diamond in 1968.
71. What is the last name of the title character in the Nickelodeon animated TV series Hey Arnold!?
72. Lieutenant Tasha Yar is killed off in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation after an actress asked to be released from her contract. Name the actress.
73. Who was the Vice-President in 1988?
74. What was the name of the main antagonist of the 1988 action film Die Hard, portrayed by Alan Rickman?
75. Who were the NBA Champions in 1988?
76. Who was People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1988?
77. Which song by The Beach Boys, featured in the film Cocktail, became a hit single?
78. This anti-hero appeared in Web of Spider-Man #18 (September1986) before making his first full appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (May 1988). Name him.
79. Roots was a very popular multi-part mini-series that aired on ABC. What was the third installment called?
80. Who were the Stanley Cup Champions in 1988?
81. In 1988, what was the average life expectancy in the United States?
82. This comedy film included Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin. What film?
83. Who owned Wanda, the fish, in the movie?
84. What was the Top-Rated TV Show in the 1987/1988 season?
85. What was the most popular portable music device in the 1980s?
86. Name the cat and mouse team in a fictional animated series featured on The Simpsons.
87. Who are the Primary Characters in The Land Before Time series? You get one point for each of the seven you can name.
88. Before being seen on cable television, this funny sci-fi show aired for the first time on KTMA-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Name that program.
89. What is the name of the Toon town in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Trivia Team Bonus Questions:
1. What year is Who Framed Roger Rabbit set in?
2. Who provided the speaking voice for Jessica Rabbit?
3. What phrase often ended Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes with a moral lesson?
4. What was special about the prime-time NBC broadcast at Chicago’s Wrigley Field between the Cubs and New York Mets?
5. Name the detective agency David Addison and Madolyn “Maddie” Hayes ran.
6. In The Land Before Time, what type of dinosaur is Littlefoot?
7. What was the name of the first major computer virus that affected the internet in 1988?
8. Name the wrestling program aired on TBS opposite WrestleMania IV on pay-per-view.
9. What Horse won the Kentucky Derby in 1988?
10. Who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sarah Tobias?
The Answers:
88 Trivia Answers For 1988 History
1. What 1998 film told the story of Raymond and Charlie Babbitt? Rain Man
2. Who were the stars of Rain Man? Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman
3. ON TV, what is Matlock’s full name? (Benjamin Leighton) Ben Matlock.
4. What well-known children’s author published the book Matilda in 1988? Roald Dahl
5. Who was the Pope in 1988? John Paul II (October 16, 1978 – April 2, 2005)
6. In Beetlejuice, what is the name of the handbook given to the recently deceased? Handbook for the Recently Deceased
7. Who is Garfield’s owner, known for his awkward social skills and love for his pets? Jon Arbuckle
8. What does Homer Simpson say when he makes a dumb mistake? Doh!
9. Name the two headline professional wrestlers who competed on The Main Event on NBC, marking the historic return of professional wrestling to network prime-time television for the first time since 1955 – one point for each correct name. Hulk Hogan and André the Giant
10. Name the highest-grossing film of 1988. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
11. Name the actor who portrayed Officer Tom Hanson, one of the lead characters on TV’s 21 Jump Street. Johnny Depp
12. Name the Microsoft program used from 1987 to 2009; its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database management system. Microsoft Works
13. Name the character, a purple and green Tyrannosaurus found on VHS before his television debut in 1992. Barney the dinosaur
14. Who was Cheers’s original owner and bartender in the first season? Sam Malone, portrayed by Ted Danson.
15. Who was the biggest musical artist of 1988? George Michael
16. Death row inmate Gary Gilmore reportedly inspired this popular tagline. Say the Phrase. HINT: Nike Just Do It
17. Nike also owns a logo called “Jumpman,” an athlete’s silhouette. Name the athlete. Michael Jordan
18. Which actor portrayed Assistant District Attorney Dan Fielding on Night Court? John Larroquette
19. What TV network broadcast the Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games from Calgary? ABC
20. Can you name the spokestoon for Camel cigarettes, introduced in 1988? Joe Camel (aka Old Joe)
21. Which 1988 film features a con artist duo played by Steve Martin and Michael Caine? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
22. What is the name of the fictional news magazine show that Murphy Brown works for? FYI
23. The Energizer Bunny was first created as a parody of what? The Duracell Bunny, which first appeared in television advertising in 1973
24. What groundbreaking animated Japanese film was released in 1988 and became a cult classic worldwide? Akira
25. Who won the World Series in 1988? Los Angeles Dodgers
26. WABC’s The Morning Show debuted its national syndication under its new title. What was it called? Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
27. Name the actor who played Eddie Valiant, the private detective in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Bob Hoskins
28. Which actor joined the cast of Growing Pains in 1991 as Luke Brower, a homeless teenager taken in by the Seaver family? Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed Luke Brower during the show’s final season.
29. Which future Hollywood star made a guest appearance as Carol’s boyfriend, Jeff, in the 1988 season of Growing Pains? Brad Pitt appeared as Jeff, one of Carol’s boyfriends.
30. Which turtle is the leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Leonardo
31. Who are the Conner family’s three children introduced in the first season of Rosanne? You get one point for each, which you can name. Becky, Darlene, and D.J
32. The Coca-Cola Company created this to compete with Gatorade. Name that sports drink. Powerade
33. Which iconic American retailer, known for its catalogs, filed for bankruptcy in 1988? Sears
34. What 1988 film stars Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends? Beaches
35. What was the name of the comic book publisher that originally released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Mirage Studios
36. In The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, who plays the villain Vincent Ludwig? Ricardo Montalbán
37. Name the two Senators who participated in the 1988 vice presidential debate. Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen
38. “Read my lips: no new taxes” was a phrase by American presidential candidate George H. W. Bush. Where did he say it? 1988 Republican National Convention
39. Name the annual Discovery Channel event that started on July 14, 1988. Shark Week
40. You get one point for each Rambo film in the franchise you can name. First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988), Rambo (2008), and Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
41. Who directed the 1988 film Willow? Ron Howard
42. The Microsoft Windows 1988 release came out in two versions, Windows/286 and Windows/386, but with the same name. What was it called? Windows 2.1 (Windows 3.0 came out in 1990)
43. What was the first film broadcast on TNT, the fourth cable network owned by Turner Broadcasting? HINT: It was Ted Turner’s favorite film. Gone With The Wind
44. What game is Jessica Rabbit accused of playing with Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Patty-cake
45. Who was the President in 1988? Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989)
46. What 1988 film earned Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito the most money in their careers? Twins (they shared 40% of 216.6 million dollars, the film’s box office and rental returns)
47. In 1962, Topps released a series of cards called Mars Attacks! They released another set of Attack! cards in 1988. Name that card series. Dinosaurs Attack!
48. Which Full House character has the catchphrase “How rude!”? Stephanie Tanner
49. 1988’s Crocodile Dundee II was the second of two sequels for Crocodile Dundee. Name the third. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
50. You can get one point for each of the two starring actors in the Crocodile Dundee trilogy. Paul Hogan (Michael “Crocodile” Dundee) and Linda Kozlowski (Sue Charlton)
51. How many people lived in the World in 1988? 5,132,293,974
52. How many people lived in the United States in 1988? 244,498,982
53. In what year is the pilot episode of The Wonder Years set? 1968
54. This 1988 film featured Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall (also in various roles), James Earl Jones, and John Amos. Name that film. Coming To America
55. What team won the Super Bowl in 1988? Washington Redskins
56. Name the film that film received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (Tom Hanks) and Best Original Screenplay. Big
57. Name the media franchise that featured Detective Sergeant Franklin “Frank” Drebin. The Naked Gun
58. Name the actor who played Frank Drebin. Leslie Nielson
59. Who was the infamous murderer interviewed on Geraldo Rivera’s live special Murder: Live from Death Row? Charles Manson.
60. What Oscar-winning director appeared as an Elvis Presley impersonator on The Golden Girls? Quentin Tarantino
61. Name the performer who had a “contractual first right of refusal” for playing the role of John McClane in Die Hard. Die Hard was loosely based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever, a sequel to The Detective (1968), in which Sinatra starred. He declined due to age.
62. Die Hard (1988) had four sequels. You get one point for each, which you can name. Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
63. Who is the mascot of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association? Hugo (the Hornet)
64. Name the skit (and later film franchise) featuring Garth Algar and Wayne Campbell. Wayne’s World
65. Who was the biggest solo musical artist of the 1980s? Michael Jackson
66. What was the Bestselling Fiction Book in 1988? The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy
67. What was the Biggest Number One Song of 1988? Faith by George Michael
68. What is the name of the Rescue Rangers‘ primary mode of transportation, an aircraft made from household items? The Ranger Plane
69. What do you call the athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners attempt to get from one point to another in the fastest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment and often while performing feats of acrobatics? Parkour
70. This reggae pop song first hit the Billboard Top 40 charts in January 1984 and didn’t reach the number one spot until October 15, 1988. Name that tune, Hint: It was a minor hit for Neil Diamond in 1968. Red Red Wine by UB40
71. What is the last name of the title character in the Nickelodeon animated TV series Hey Arnold!? Shortman (Arnold Phillip Shortman)
72. Lieutenant Tasha Yar is killed off in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation after an actress asked to be released from her contract. Name the actress. Denise Crosby
73. Who was the Vice-President in 1988? George H. W. Bush (January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989)
74. What was the name of the main antagonist of the 1988 action film Die Hard, portrayed by Alan Rickman? Hans Gruber
75. Who were the NBA Champions in 1988? Los Angeles Lakers
76. Who was People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1988? John F. Kennedy Jr.
77. Which song by The Beach Boys, featured in the film Cocktail, became a hit single? Kokomo. It peaked at #1.
78. This anti-hero appeared in Web of Spider-Man #18 (September 1986) before making his first full appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (May 1988). Name him. Venom (Eddie Brock)
79. Roots was a very popular multi-part mini-series that aired on ABC. What was the third installment called? Roots: The Gift
80. Who were the Stanley Cup Champions in 1988? Edmonton Oilers
81. In 1988, what was the average life expectancy in the United States? Men – 71.2 years, Women – 78.3 years
82. This comedy film included Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin. What film? A Fish Called Wanda
83. Who owned Wanda, the fish, in the movie? Ken Pile (Michael Palin)
84. What was the Top-Rated TV Show in the 1987/1988 season? The Cosby Show
85. What was the most popular portable music device in the 1980s? The Sony Walkman
86. Name the cat and mouse team in a fictional animated series featured on The Simpsons. Itchy and Scratchy
87. Who are the Primary Characters in The Land Before Time series? You get one point for each of the seven you can name. Spike, Ducky, Cera, Littlefoot, Petrie, Ruby (TV first appearance), and Chomper
88. Before being seen on cable television, this funny sci-fi show aired for the first time on KTMA-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Name that program. Mystery Science Theater 3000
89. What is the name of the Toon town in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Toontown
Trivia Team Bonus Answers:
1. What year is Who Framed Roger Rabbit set in? 1947
2. Who provided the speaking voice for Jessica Rabbit? Kathleen Turner
3. What phrase often ended Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes with a moral lesson? “Turtle Power!”
4. What was special about the prime-time NBC broadcast at Chicago’s Wrigley Field between the Cubs and New York Mets? It was the first official night game at Wrigley Field.
5. Name the detective agency David Addison and Madolyn “Maddie” Hayes ran. Blue Moon
6. In The Land Before Time, what type of dinosaur is Littlefoot? A brontosaurus (also known as an Apatosaurus)
7. What was the name of the first major computer virus that affected the internet in 1988? The Morris Worm
8. Name the wrestling program aired on TBS opposite WrestleMania IV on pay-per-view. Clash of the Champions
9. What Horse won the Kentucky Derby in 1988? Winning Colors
10. Who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sarah Tobias? Jodie Foster (for The Accused)
1868 – The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal by a single vote.
1923 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1967 – The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.
If you were born on May 26th, You were likely conceived the week of… September 2nd (prior year)
List of Everyone on The Sgt. Pepper Album Cover:
Top Row: Sri Yukteswar Giri, Aleister Crowley, Mae West, Lenny Bruce, Karlheinz Stockhausen, W.C. Fields, Carl Jung, Edgar Allan Po, Fred Astaire, Richard Merkin, The Vargas Girl (by Alberto Vargas), Leo Gorcey (missing), Huntz Hall, Simon Rodia, Bob Dylan
Second row: Aubrey Beardsley, Sir Robert Peel, Aldous Huxley, Dylan Thomas, Terry Southern, Dion DiMucci, Tony Curtis, Wallace Berman, Tommy Handley, Marilyn Monroe, William S. Burroughs, Sri Mahavatar Babaji, Stan Laurel, Richard Lindner, Oliver Hardy, Karl Marx, H.G. Wells, Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, James Joyce, Anonymous
Third row: Stuart Sutcliffe, Anonymous, Max Miller, A “Petty Girl” (by George Petty), Marlon Brando, Tom Mix, Oscar Wilde, Tyrone Power, Larry Bell, David Livingstone, Johnny Weissmuller, Stephen Crane, Issy Bonn, George Bernard Shaw, H.C. Westermann, Albert Stubbins, Sri Lahiri Mahasaya, Lewis Carroll, T.E. Lawrence
Front row: Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer), A “Petty Girl” (by George Petty), Wax model of George Harrison, Wax model of John Lennon, Shirley Temple, Wax model of Ringo Starr, Wax model of Paul McCartney, Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Bette Davis, Bobby Breen, Marlene Dietrich, Mahatma Gandhi was deleted, An American legionnaire, Wax model of Diana Dors, Shirley Temple
May 26 is…
Blueberry Cheesecake Day Cherry Dessert Day World Lindy Hop Day
May 26 Birthday Quotes
“I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.” – Sally Ride
“Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn’t how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.” – Stevie Nicks
“I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.” – Peggy Lee
“Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn’t matter. It’s entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose …. but it’s all about entering the race.” – Pam Grier
“I’m going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I’m 75 – and that’s just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn’t get tangled in my rocking chair.” – Stevie Nicks
May 26 Birthdays
1883 – Mamie Smith, American singer (died in 1946) 1886 – Al Jolson, American singer and actor (died in 1950) 1907 – John Wayne, American actor (died in 1979) 1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (died in 1994) 1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer-songwriter and actress (died in 2002) 1928 – Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and assisted suicide activist (died in 2011) 1939 – Herb Trimpe, American comic book author and illustrator (died in 2015) 1946 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist (died in 1993) 1948 – Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter 1949 – Pam Grier, American actress 1951 – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (died in 2012)
May 26 History
1293 (Earthquake) Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1869 – Boston University was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1896 – Charles Dow published the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1897 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel began being sold in the UK.
1917 (Tornadoes) Mattoon and Charlestown Illinois
1923 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually every June.
1962 #1 Hit May 26, 1962 – June 1, 1962: Mr. Acker Bilk – Stranger on the Shore
1973 #1 Hit May 26, 1973 – June 1, 1973: The Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein
1977 – George Willig illegally climbed the South Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center.
1984 #1 Hit May 26, 1984 – June 8, 1984: Deniece Williams – Let’s Hear It for the Boy
1990 – The final episode of The Tracey Ullman Show aired on FOX
May 26 Birthday (fictional) Kyle, South Park, Cartoon
1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
May 26 20** (fiction) Gru stole theMoon, Despicable Me, Film
2007 #1 Hit May 26, 2007 – June 8, 2007: T-Pain featuring Yung Joc – Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)
2012 – Planet Green became Destination America on cable television.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
“Long story short” makes your story three words longer.
Someone keeps adding 1 to all of my multiples of two and I can’t even.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. The death of a statistician is within the standard deviation.
28 Days Later was filmed on a Canon XL-1 DV camera using mini-DV tapes instead of 35mm film.
I think “Jane Goodall and the Chimps” would be a fantastic name for a band.
The official state songs of Maryland and Iowa are sung to the tune of the traditional German Christmas song ‘O Tannenbaum.’
“Have fun stormin’ da castle.” – Miracle Max #moviequotes
“These walls are funny. First, you hate ’em, then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.” – Red in The Shawshank Redemption #moviequotes
There should be confetti in tires so when there is a blowout it’s still kind of an OK day.
A group of crows is called a Murder or Horde or Parcel or Storytelling. A group of 3 is a crowd.
“Guilty feet have got no rhythm.” #songlyrics
People falling from tall buildings always land on a car. #moviecliches
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet. It will next appear in mid-2061.
1925 – John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
1977 – 1977 – Star Wars (now Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) opened Memorial Day weekend, marking the biggest entertainment juggernaut in modern popular culture, now second only to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
If you were born on May 25th, You were likely conceived the week of… September 1st (prior year)
The Star Wars Film Chronological Order Timeline:
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Star Wars: The Clone Wars (television animated series, 133 episodes) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Solo: A Star Wars Story Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (the “first” film in the series, released May 25, 1977) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi The Mandalorian (Disney+ TV Show) Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
May 25 is…
Brown Bag it Day Nerd/Geek Pride Day Sing Out Day Towel Day Wine Day
May 25 Birthday Quotes
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I don’t look back, I just go forward. I’m just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something.” – Frank Oz
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
“Don’t wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.” – Molly Sims
“The root of all evil is ‘I’, ‘Me’, ‘Mine’.” – Pio of Pietrelcina
“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 25 Birthdays
1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (died in 1882) 1878 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (died in 1949) 1887 – Padre Pio, Italian priest and saint (died in 1968) 1921 – Kitty Kallen, American singer (died in 2016) 1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress (died in 2007) 1943 – Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer 1944 – Frank Oz, English-born American puppeteer, filmmaker, and actor 1949 – Barry Windsor-Smith, English painter and comic book illustrator 1953 – Stan Sakai, Japanese-American comic book author and illustrator 1969 – Anne Heche, American actress 1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1973 – Molly Sims, American model 1994 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast 1999 – Brec Bassinger, American actress
May 25 History
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London.
1935 – At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Babe Ruth hit his 714th (and final) home run.
1961 – President John F. Kennedy declared “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space program in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”
1968 – The Saint Louis Gateway Arch was dedicated.
1977 – Chinese government removed the ban on the works of William Shakespeare, the biggest entertainment juggernaut in the Elizabethan era.
1985 #1 Hit May 25, 1985 – June 7, 1985: Wham! – Everything She Wants
1986 – Hands Across America took place.
1991 #1 Hit May 25, 1991 – June 7, 1991: Mariah Carey – I Don’t Wanna Cry
1992 – Jay Leno made his debut as the new host of The Tonight Show.
1994 – George Swanson was buried in Brush Creek Cemetery, in the driver’s seat of his 1984 white Corvette in Hempfield County, Pennsylvania.
1996 – Sublime singer/guitarist Bradley Nowel died from a heroin overdose. He was not 27
2005 – Carrie Underwood won season four of America Idol on FOX.
2011- Oprah Winfrey hosted the final episode of her syndicated daytime show.
2018 – The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforceable in the European Union.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
The base wage in the Bikini Bottom must be really high if both SpongeBob and Patrick have fast-food jobs and have homes to themselves.
There are about two million saunas in Finland, enough for the entire Finnish population to take a sauna at the same time.
I could probably call George Washington Carver “peanut butter George Washington” and everyone would still know what I mean.
“The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.” – Loesje
I decided to become a better person, but I misread the application form and I’m now a bitter person.
Green Arrow’s Chili is the spiciest food in the DC Universe. Only Green Arrow himself and Batman can eat it without screaming in pain.
It would be really easy to draw a blank.
Useless Pronunciation: O as in owe
“You’re so vain, I bet you think this song is about you” really is a song about that guy. #songlyrics
“And realize the sun don’t go down, it’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning around.” #songlyrics
“There’s no half-singing in the shower, you’re either a rock star or an opera diva” – Josh Groban
A person who has performed a favor for someone is more likely to do another favor for that person. This is known as the Ben Franklin effect.
A group of Poems is called an Anthology.
Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
Had some Mobius strips of bacon for breakfast. Now I can’t stop tasting.
Delaware is more than tax-free shopping and scrapple—it’s also home to thousands of geese, especially the well-known Canada goose, a familiar sight in neighborhoods, parks, and farm fields across the state. Depending on the season, these large waterfowl have made Delaware part of their year-round or migratory home.
Geese are intelligent, highly social birds known for their loyalty, advanced communication skills, and excellent vision. They form strong family bonds, often mating for life, and can identify individuals in their flocks, including distinguishing siblings from an early age.
Their vision is awe-inspiring—geese can detect ultraviolet light and see greater detail at long distances than humans. They also exhibit unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, allowing them to stay alert to predators with one eye open.
Geese use their sensitive bills, which are rich in touch receptors, to forage and develop food preferences early in life. From the moment they hatch—and even before—goslings begin communicating with their parents and reacting to environmental cues like plant smells.
In flight, geese use energy-saving V-formations, taking turns leading and using environmental cues and the Earth’s magnetic field for migration. Their protective instincts extend to mourning lost mates or eggs, and due to their heightened awareness, they’ve even been used for guard duty.
???? Where Do Geese Live in Delaware?
Geese aren’t too picky. In Delaware, you’ll find them:
In suburban communities like Newark, Middletown, and Dover, people often waddle across golf courses or stroll near stormwater retention ponds.
Around shopping centers and office parks, especially those with decorative ponds (which geese take as an open invitation).
At state parks like:
Lums Pond State Park – A favorite for both boating and birdwatching.
Trap Pond State Park – Offers prime nesting areas in its swampy cypress habitat.
Killens Pond State Park – Another hotspot for seasonal goose activity.
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge – One of the East Coast’s top destinations for migratory birds, including thousands of geese in fall and winter.
Geese especially love open grassy areas near water, which are plentiful across Delaware’s low-lying landscape.
???? When Do Geese Migrate Through Delaware?
Delaware is a significant stop on the Atlantic Flyway, a key migration route for geese traveling between Canada and the southern U.S. While some geese remain in Delaware year-round, fall (October–December) and spring (February–April) bring noticeable spikes in the population as massive flocks pass through.
Resident geese can be spotted any time of year.
Migratory flocks arrive larger during the colder months and return north by early spring.
???? Geese in the Neighborhood
Some Delawareans have a love-hate relationship with these birds. While they’re charming to watch, geese can:
Leave droppings on sidewalks and lawns
Hiss or act territorially during nesting season (usually late March to May)
Occasionally block traffic while crossing roads in their famous single-file parade
However, they’re protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, so it’s illegal to harm or harass them without a federal permit. That said, many towns use humane deterrents—like coyote decoys or trained dogs—to keep flocks moving along peacefully.
???? Why Geese Walk in a Straight Line:
Safety & Protection
The line formation allows goslings (the baby geese) to stay close to their parents, especially the mother in front and the father guarding the rear. This reduces the risk of predators sneaking up on stragglers.
Energy Conservation
Just like their V-formation in flight, walking in a line helps reduce drag and makes it easier for the goslings to follow without wasting extra energy.
Visual Imprinting & Learning
Goslings imprint on their parent(s) and follow them instinctively. A straight line is just the most direct and visible way to stay on course behind mom or dad. It’s also helpful when learning to forage or find water.
Narrow Path Adaptation
It looks very organized on sidewalks, paths, or roads, but that’s not to impress humans—geese instinctively take the most direct route that fits the group. They will also walk this way on open fields or frozen lakes.
So, Is It an Adjustment for Humans?
Nope. But their path might get straighter when crossing roads or sidewalks because the terrain funnels them — think of it as instinct meets infrastructure.
So the next time you see a goose conga line crossing a parking lot like royalty, know: it’s ancient bird logic, not human influence.
???? Did You Know?
Delaware hosts part of the Mid-Atlantic Population of Canada geese, distinct from migratory giants from the Arctic. These local birds are Delaware-born and honk-raised—some right in the heart of Wilmington or Rehoboth Beach business parks.
1626 – Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Lenape Indians for “60 guilders worth of trade,” approximately $1,143 in 2020 dollars.
1844 – Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first public telegraph message – ‘What Hath God Wrought?’ through the Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph line.
1958 – United Press International (UPI) was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
If you were born on May 24th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 31st (prior year)
Mary Had A Little Lamb
The opening lines of the rhyme were the first audio recorded by Thomas Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877.
Mary had a little lamb Little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went Mary went, Mary went Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go He followed her to school one day School one day, school one day He followed her to school one day Which was against the rule It made the children laugh and play Laugh and play, laugh and play It made the children laugh and play To see a lamb at school And so the teacher turned him out Turned him out, turned him out And so the teacher turned him out But still he lingered near And waited patiently Patiently, patiently And wai-aited patiently Til Mary did appear Mary had a little lamb Little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went Mary went, Mary went Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go
May 24 is…
Escargot Day Scavenger Hunt Day
National Scavenger Hunt Day
Elsa Maxwell, an American socialite, popularized the “Scavenger Hunt Day” game in the 1930s. Known as the “hostess with the mostest,” Maxwell organized scavenger hunts for celebrities and elite guests. Participants roamed town seeking items from a list without buying them, using bartering and clues to win. Today, scavenger hunts are popular for children during holidays like Easter and Halloween, and even in university fraternities. These games encourage healthy competition, exercise, and creativity, captivating both children and adults with their imaginative challenges and sense of adventure.
May 24 Birthday Quotes
“I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, ‘Nah, no way, he’s too big, it can’t be true.’ Then I got a call from Michael’s people at my hotel telling me he was interested. But I still wasn’t believing it – I thought they were setting me up for a TV practical jokes show.” – Heavy D
“There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won’t do to get ahead, the lines you will and won’t cross to win, whom you will and won’t step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.” – Patti LaBelle
“I view my strongest competition as myself. You’re always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.” – John C. Reilly
“When one of Lisa’s baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?” – Priscilla Presley
May 24 Birthdays
1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (died in 1901) 1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian-American comedic actor 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, Nobel Prize laureate 1944 – Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter 1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress 1965 – John C. Reilly, American character actor 1967 – Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper (died in 2011) 1967 – Eric Close, American actor 1972 – Greg Berlanti, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1975 – Will Sasso, Canadian comedic actor
May 24 History
1775 – John Hancock was elected president of the Second Continental Congress.
1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale was published.
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge over the East River opened, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1935 – The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in Major League Baseball’s first-ever night game at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1938 – A patent (#2,118,318) was issued for a Coin Controlled Parking Meter to Carl C. McGee of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1943 – Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death’ began working at the Auschwitz, Poland concentration camp.
1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
1966 – Broadway Show – Mame (Musical) May 24, 1966
1969 #1 Hit May 24, 1969 – June 27, 1969: The Beatles with Billy Preston – Get Back
1975 #1 Hit May 24, 1975 – May 30, 1975: Earth, Wind & Fire – Shining Star
1976 – The Concorde began regular passenger service between Europe and Washington DC.
1991 – Thelma and Louise, starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, was released. Their car was a 1966 Ford Thunderbird.
1995 – ABC made the announcement that an episode of All My Children was deleted from the broadcast due to the recent Oklahoma City bombing. In the storyline, a character was supposed to explode a church in which her ex was re-marrying.
1997 #1 Hit May 24, 1997 – June 13, 1997: Hanson – MMMBop
2006 – Taylor Hicks won American Idol season five.
2008 #1 Hit May 24, 2008 – June 27, 2008: Rihanna – Take a Bow
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
The Capital of South Sudan is Juba
Does anybody ever get USB’s the right way up the FIRST time? Do such people exist?
The barman says “Sorry, we don’t serve time travelers here”
A Man Steps into a bar.
You could really freak out historical figures by reading the “early life” section of their wiki pages to them. #timetravelshenanigans
“Show me the money!” – Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) in Jerry Maguire, 1996
We live in a generation where the clarity of a TV is the same, if not better, than that of a mirror.
Think about how excited you would have to be to run across a room and embrace and kiss someone when they enter the room. Dogs get that excited at least once a day.
Stan Laurel – Real Name: Arthur Stanley Jefferson
US President #11 James Polk (1845-1849) Mr. Polk was the first President to have his picture taken while in office, in 1849.
1430 – 1430 – Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians
1788 – South Carolina officially became the eighth US state.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1873 – The Canadian Parliament established the North-West Mounted Police, later named the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
If you were born on May 23rd, You were likely conceived the week of… August 30th (prior year)
May 23 is…
Taffy Day World Turtle Day
May 23 Birthday Quotes
“We are all stars in this galaxy. All of us. No one’s greater than the other.” – Scatman Crothers
“Learn how to set goals. That’s the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it’s not somebody else’s goal, it’s yours.” – Drew Carey
“No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.” – Rosemary Clooney
“The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.” – Joan Collins
“Suffering is everywhere. Don’t ever think it isn’t. So are miracles. Don’t ever think they aren’t.” – Jewel
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar.” – Drew Carey
May 23 Birthdays
1834 – Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (died in 1890) 1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (died in 1986) 1919 – Betty Garrett, American comedic actress, singer, and dancer (died in 2011) 1920 – Helen O’Connell, American singer (died in 1993) 1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (died in 2002) 1933 – Joan Collins, English actress 1958 – Drew Carey, American comedic actor and game show host 1962 – Karen Duffy, American actress 1965 – Melissa McBride, American actress 1974 – Jewel, American singer-songwriter
May 23 History
1701 – Scottish-born sea captain William Kidd was hanged on the banks of the Thames after being found guilty of piracy and murder.
1911 – The New York Public Library was dedicated.
1920 – Pope Benedict XV canonized Joan of Arc.
1922 – Broadway Show – Abie’s Irish Rose (Play) May 23, 1922
1934 – Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were killed in a stolen Ford Deluxe near Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
May 23, 1955 Birthday (fictional) John McClane, Die Hard, Film
1960 #1 Hit May 23, 1960 – June 26, 1960: The Everly Brothers – Cathy’s Clown
1960 (Tsunami) Caused by yesterday’s earthquake off the coast of Chile, a tsunami traveled across the Pacific Ocean and killed 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
1994 – Star Trek: The Next Generation aired its final episode titled “All Good Things.”
1995 – ABC’s Full House came to an end.
1998 #1 Hit May 23, 1998 – June 5, 1998: Mariah Carey – My All
2005 – Tom Cruise famously jumped around on Oprah Winfrey’s couch, proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes
2007 – Jordin Sparks won America Idol season six
2012 – Phillip Phillips won American Idol season eleven
#1 Hit May 23, 2020 – May 29, 2020: Stuck with U – Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
When I can’t spell a word I just randomly type letters that I think would spell the word and just hope auto-correct saves my.
“Please note that WinRAR is not free software. After a 40 day trial period, you must buy a license or remove it from your computer.” It’s been a long 40 days.
“A recent survey for North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.” – Banksy
A great many problems do not have accurate answers but do have approximate answers, from which sensible decisions can be made.
The Capital of Spain is Madrid
Stephanie Powers – Real Name: Stefania Federkiewicz
We’ve spent so long worrying about the rise of ‘Big Brother’ but in the end with memes and camera-wielding social crusaders, we’ve created it ourselves.
Caterpillar comes from an old French word for “Shaggy Cat”.
TV Quotes… “The truth is out there” (Fox Mulder) on The X-Files
A seed is a small embryonic plant that is enclosed in a seed coat; a nut, on the other hand, is a hard-shelled fruit that contains a single seed.
It’s gonna be interesting watching HGTV in 10 years when the open floor concept goes out of style and these people are gonna be throwing up walls all over the house.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is basically called Extra-Terrestrial the Extra-Terrestrial.
“Ed Wood himself could have told us what’s wrong with this movie: the makers felt superior to the material.” Roger Ebert reviews Mars Attacks.
You walk past a pharmacy. Inside, on the shelf, sits a medication that could save your child’s life. You can’t afford it. Insurance denied the claim. The government won’t help. The pharmacist, while sympathetic, can’t give it away.
So you wait until no one’s looking… and take it.
Are you a criminal—or a parent doing what anyone would?
This is The Honest Thief, a classic ethical dilemma in everything from courtrooms to literature. It forces us to confront the uneasy relationship between law and morality and asks: Is it ever right to do the wrong thing?
A Familiar Story
The “honest thief” shows up in:
Religious texts – including the thief crucified beside Jesus in Christian scripture, who repents and is forgiven.
Literature – like Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, who steals bread to feed his family and spends a lifetime making amends.
Real-life – think of people who shoplift food during economic crises or steal fuel to get to work.
Each version tests our sense of compassion, justice, and principle.
Why This Dilemma Matters
Unlike cold ethical puzzles, this one comes wrapped in emotion. It’s about people we can empathize with—those caught between moral duty and legal constraint.
Should they be punished for breaking the law?
Or praised for doing what’s right in context?
Ethical Frameworks
1. Utilitarianism: The Ends Matter
A utilitarian looks at outcomes. If stealing:
Saves a life
Prevents suffering
Results in greater good than harm
…then it’s arguably justified.
Stealing a $50 inhaler to prevent a child’s asthma attack? If the harm to the store is minor and the benefit to the child is immense, the act may be morally acceptable—even praiseworthy.
2. Deontology: Rules Must Be Followed
Deontologists argue that right and wrong depend on the act itself, not the outcome. Stealing is wrong, full stop.
Even if the motive is noble, violating a moral law—like respect for property—corrupts one’s integrity. One version of this view comes from Immanuel Kant, who stressed acting from duty, not outcome.
Kant might ask:
What if everyone stole when they needed something?
Would society collapse under moral exceptions?
In this view, intention is not enough to excuse the act.
3. Virtue Ethics: It’s About Character
Virtue ethicists consider the kind of person you’re trying to be.
Are you greedy? No.
Are you selfish? No.
Are you desperate but acting with humility, remorse, and a plan to repay? Maybe.
The honest thief might be seen as morally complex: flawed, but courageous. A person of compassion and resolve, even in the face of laws.
Law vs. Justice
The law often draws hard lines:
Theft is illegal, regardless of reason.
Judges may have limited discretion.
Public sympathy doesn’t always matter in the courtroom.
But justice? That’s fuzzier.
Jury Nullification
Sometimes, juries acquit defendants despite clear guilt, because they believe the law itself—or its application—is unjust. In real-world “honest thief” cases, this happens more often than you might think.
Case example:
In 2011, a man in the UK stole food because his benefits were delayed. The court issued no punishment, citing the situation’s context.
Civil Disobedience
When laws are unjust, some argue they should be broken intentionally. This includes:
Feeding the homeless where banned
Stealing life-saving medicine when it’s unaffordable
Breaking into buildings to shelter the unhoused during storms
The honest thief often operates in this gray zone of protest and survival.
When Is It Not Justifiable?
Not every thief is honest. Some situations don’t meet the moral threshold:
Stealing luxury goods
Causing harm to others
Acting from entitlement, not necessity
Context is key. Stealing a loaf of bread when starving? Ethically debatable. Stealing a TV during a riot? Less so.
Psychological Factors
Moral Licensing
People sometimes justify wrongdoing by claiming they’re “doing it for a good cause.” But psychology warns this can become a slippery slope—where one good deed (or motive) is used to rationalize harmful behavior.
Empathy and Bias
We judge “honest thieves” differently based on identity:
A struggling mother? Sympathetic.
A homeless person with mental illness? Often judged harshly.
A suit-wearing executive embezzling “to pay off medical debt”? Harder to defend.
Bias plays a role in how we assign moral value—even in identical acts.
Real-World Applications
1. Healthcare Theft
People who can’t afford insulin or cancer medication sometimes turn to theft—or illegal online sources. These acts challenge policymakers to confront:
Is theft the problem—or the system?
Should we punish acts of desperation—or prevent the desperation?
2. Food Insecurity
In food deserts and poverty zones, shoplifting is often about survival. Some stores quietly let the theft go if it is small, while others press charges to deter future incidents.
3. Emergency Scenarios
Think natural disasters, where looting blurs into survival. During Hurricane Katrina, people took baby formula and diapers from wrecked stores. Were they stealing—or rescuing resources?
The Burden of Remorse
The honest thief isn’t just defined by action—it’s also about accountability. Do they:
Make restitution?
Apologize?
Feel conflicted?
Moral weight increases when someone owns their actions and seeks to repair the harm. Some donate, repay, or even turn themselves in later.
As a society, we might ask: Should we make space for redemption—not just punishment?
Glossary of Terms
Civil Disobedience – The intentional violation of laws for moral or political reasons.
Utilitarianism – An ethics theory focused on outcomes and the greater good.
Deontology – Ethics based on adherence to moral rules, regardless of outcomes.
Virtue Ethics – A framework that emphasizes moral character over rule-following or consequences.
Moral Licensing – A psychological effect where past good behavior is used to justify future bad actions.
Discussion Questions
Is it ever morally acceptable to steal? If so, under what circumstances?
Should legal systems show flexibility in cases of “honest theft”?
Does motive matter more than action—or should we uphold the rules equally for everyone?
(answers) 1. What happened in the Newhart series finale?
2. On what late-night talk show did Mariah Carey deliver her first live television performance, singing Vision of Love?
3. What animated Disney film released in 1990 follows the adventures of Bernard and Miss Bianca?
4. What was Sam Malone’s previous profession before owning Cheers?
5. Which actor portrays Darlene’s boyfriend and later husband, David Healy, on Roseanne?
6. Who played the lead role of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone?
7. Who directed Home Alone?
8. Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is known for his love of pizza?
9. What color is Michelangelo’s bandana?
10. What is the name of the Winslow family’s nerdy neighbor on Family Matters who becomes a breakout character?
11. Who played FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks?
12. Who played Pennywise the Clown in the original 1990 It miniseries?
13. What is the name of the band formed by Zack, Slater, Screech, and Lisa in Saved By The Bell?
14. This media franchise centers around attacks from subterranean worm-like creatures known as Graboids.
15. According to the Chinese zodiac cycle, what animal is represented in 1990?
16. At what age did Doogie Howser become a licensed physician?
17. What 1990 film stars Tom Hanks as a man who is told he has a terminal illness and embarks on an adventure?
18. Despite being sentenced to life imprisonment and confined to the notorious Robben Island prison, this leader gained his freedom on February 11, 1990. Who is he?
19. Die Hard (1988) had four sequels. You get one point for each, which you can name.
20. Who won an Academy Award for their role as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost?
21. What occupation does Oda Mae Brown claim to have in Ghost?
22. Who was the President in 1990?
23. What is Beverly Hills, California’s most famous zip code?
24. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990?
25. Name the Microsoft program used from 1987 to 2009; its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database management system.
26. On which network did America’s Funniest People originally air?
27. Who created The Simpsons?
28. Who was People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1990?
29. A Radio DJ personality debuts an ABC late-night talk show that lasted one season. Who was that DJ? Bonus point if you know the name of the show. HINT: He had a #1 record in 1976 – Disco Duck
30. What was the name of the first rap single to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990?
31. Who were the NBA Champions in 1990?
32. Name the sitcom television series that was a spin-off of The Cosby Show.
33. This pinball game was released based on a popular film trilogy. What was it called? HINT: This game will take you on a wild ride through time; just don’t run out of 1.21 gigawatts!
34. In “Treehouse of Horror,” what is the name of the alien duo that appeared on The Simpsons?
35. Name the simplified version of Monopoly, designed for young children.
36. Name the super-successful American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton.
37. Which Murder, She Wrote episode was a crossover with another popular detective series?
38. What popular self-help book by John Gray, published in 1990, discusses gender communication differences?
39. Catchphrase: Who said, “Homey, don’t play that!”?
40. Who won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1990?
41. What was unusual about that particular award?
42. Name the children’s show that introduced up to Buster and Babs Bunny.
43. What company did “The Noid” appear to promote?
44. What 1990 sketch comedy show launched the careers of the Wayans brothers and Jim Carrey?
45. What was the name of the 1990 song by Roxette featured in the film Pretty Woman? HINT: It was a #1 hi
46. Who was the biggest musical artist of 1990?
47. Wolf Entertainment produces this successful media franchise. HINT: Dun dun!
48. What handheld gaming device did Nintendo release in North America in 1990?
49. What was the name of the bar’s lovable but dimwitted coach in the early seasons of Cheers?
50. What is the title of Stephen King’s 1990 psychological horror novel about an obsessed fan holding an author captive?
51. Which song by Mariah Carey, released in 1990, became her first number-one single?
52. Star Trek Question, with a hint. Who are they? HINT: “You will be assimilated.”
53. Which actress played the role of Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy?
54. What was the name of the song Madonna performed that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
55. Who was the Pope in 1990?
56. What sitcom about a wealthy African-American family living in a Washington, DC, penthouse aired its final season in 1990?
57. What was the famous song by Sir MIxx A lot? HINT: Stop! Hammer time!
58. Which Quasi-religious organization does Homer Simpson briefly join in “Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment”?
59. What holiday is Die Hard 2 set during?
60. What is the theme song of Cheers titled?
61. On which network did Murder, She Wrote originally air in the United States?
62. Harry Shearer voices this Simpsons character and first appeared in the episode “Krusty Gets Busted.”HINT: He works at Springfield Channel 6
63. This gothic romantic fantasy film featured Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, among others. HINT: Johnny Depp was in it too.
64. Which Full House character often says, “Have mercy!”?
65. What planet plays a central role in the plot of Total Recall?
66. Who signed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990?
67. What is the segment’s name where Garfield answers viewer mail?
68. In Pretty Woman, what does Vivian famously say when she goes shopping after being snubbed?
69. “A new kind of car company” launched in 1990. Name that car brand. HUNT: It went defunct in 2010. HINT II: It was a subsidiary of General Motors.
70. What team won the Super Bowl in 1990?
71. What was the most-watched program ever to air on PBS
72. Movie and Book Question. What type of vessel is the Red October?
73. What movie rating replaced “X”?
74. Luther Van Dam served as the defensive coordinator on TV’s Coach. Name the actor.
75. What nickname is given to the two burglars in Home Alone?
76. What radio show introduced America to the phrase “Baba booey”
77. Who was the President of Iraq who led the invasion and annexation of Kuwait, triggering the Persian Gulf War in 1990?
78. The DuckTales TV show had a feature film in 1990. What was it called?
79. An animated environmental edutainment series created by Barbara Pyle and Ted Turner premiered on Turner’s cable channel TBS and lasted six seasons. What was it called?
80. Movie Question. What name does the Sioux tribe give to John Dunbar?
81. Which MTV series debuted in 1990 was the first to focus exclusively on rap and hip-hop music?
82. Which 1990 movie starring Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland involves medical students experimenting with near-death experiences?
83. What did Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, David Spade, and Julia Sweeney famously do in 1979?
84. Who was People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People cover star in 1990?
85. Who was the Vice-President in 1990?
86. Who won the World Series in 1990?
87. What country won the World Cup in 1990?
88. Who became the first democratically elected President of Poland in 1990, playing a key role in ending communist rule in the country?
89. Who were the Stanley Cup Champions in 1990?
90. On The Simpsons, shat is the name of the 3-eyed fish that lives in Springfield’s River?
Team Trivia Bonus Questions:
1. What is Maggie Simpson’s first word in “Lisa’s First Word”?
2. Who did President George H. W. Bush posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to in 1990?
3. What is the name of the fictional movie Kevin watches in Home Alone
4. What was the title of Madonna’s controversial 1990 world tour?
5. Which Rescue Rangers character’s appearance was inspired by Indiana Jones, featuring a fedora and bomber jacket?
6. Name the wrestler who defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania VI from Toronto’s SkyDome.
7. What time was the “Doomsday Clock” set to, in 1990?
8. What is Godwin’s Law? HINT: It’s an Internet thing
9. Who wrote the children’s book Shrek! in 1990?
10. What is the name of the vigilante ally who wears a hockey mask in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
The Answers:
90 Trivia Answers For 1990 History
(answers) 1. What happened in the Newhart series finale? It was revealed that the entire series was just a dream of Bob Newhart’s character, Dr. Bob Hartley, from The Bob Newhart Show.
2. On what late-night talk show did Mariah Carey deliver her first live television performance, singing Vision of Love? The Arsenio Hall Show
3. What animated Disney film released in 1990 follows the adventures of Bernard and Miss Bianca? The Rescuers Down Under
4. What was Sam Malone’s previous profession before owning Cheers? A professional baseball player
5. Which actor portrays Darlene’s boyfriend and later husband, David Healy, on Roseanne? Johnny Galecki
6. Who played the lead role of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone? Macaulay Culkin
7. Who directed Home Alone? Chris Columbus
8. Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is known for his love of pizza? Michelangelo
9. What color is Michelangelo’s bandana? Orange
10. What is the name of the Winslow family’s nerdy neighbor on Family Matters who becomes a breakout character? Steve Urkel
11. Who played FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks? Kyle MacLachlan
12. Who played Pennywise the Clown in the original 1990 It miniseries? Tim Curry
13. What is the name of the band formed by Zack, Slater, Screech, and Lisa in Saved By The Bell? Zack Attack
14. This media franchise centers around attacks from subterranean worm-like creatures known as Graboids. Tremors
15. According to the Chinese zodiac cycle, what animal is represented in 1990? The Horse
16. At what age did Doogie Howser become a licensed physician? He becomes a licensed physician at 16 years old.
17. What 1990 film stars Tom Hanks as a man who is told he has a terminal illness and embarks on an adventure? Joe Versus the Volcano
18. Despite being sentenced to life imprisonment and confined to the notorious Robben Island prison, this leader gained his freedom on February 11, 1990. Who is he? Nelson Mandela
19. Die Hard (1988) had four sequels. You get one point for each, which you can name. Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
20. Who won an Academy Award for their role as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost? Whoopi Goldberg
21. What occupation does Oda Mae Brown claim to have in Ghost? Psychic/Medium
22. Who was the President in 1990? George H. W. Bush (January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993)
23. What is Beverly Hills, California’s most famous zip code? 90210
24. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990? Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev
25. Name the Microsoft program used from 1987 to 2009; its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database management system. Microsoft Works
26. On which network did America’s Funniest People originally air? ABC
27. Who created The Simpsons? Matt Groening
28. Who was People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1990? Tom Cruise
29. A Radio DJ personality debuts an ABC late-night talk show that lasted one season. Who was that DJ? Bonus point if you know the name of the show. HINT: He had a #1 record in 1976 – Disco Duck Into the Night, Starring Rick Dees.
30. What was the name of the first rap single to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990? Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
31. Who were the NBA Champions in 1990? Detroit Pistons
32. Name the sitcom television series that was a spin-off of The Cosby Show. A Different World
33. This pinball game was released based on a popular film trilogy. What was it called? HINT: This game will take you on a wild ride through time; just don’t run out of 1.21 gigawatts! Back to the Future: The Pinball
34. In “Treehouse of Horror,” what is the name of the alien duo that appeared on The Simpsons? Kang and Kodos
35. Name the simplified version of Monopoly, designed for young children. Monopoly Junior
36. Name the super-successful American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park
37. Which Murder, She Wrote episode was a crossover with another popular detective series? The two-part episode “Magnum on Ice” was a crossover with Magnum, P.I., featuring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum.
38. What popular self-help book by John Gray, published in 1990, discusses gender communication differences? Men Are from Mars; Women Are from Venus
39. Catchphrase: Who said, “Homey, don’t play that!”? Homey the Clown on In Living Color
40. Who won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1990? Milli Vanilli
41. What was unusual about that particular award? It was later revoked (they didn’t sing on the album)
42. Name the children’s show that introduced up to Buster and Babs Bunny. Tiny Toon Adventures
43. What company did “The Noid” appear to promote? Dominos Pizza
44. What 1990 sketch comedy show launched the careers of the Wayans brothers and Jim Carrey? In Living Color
45. What was the name of the 1990 song by Roxette featured in the film Pretty Woman? HINT: It was a #1 hit It Must Have Been Love
46. Who was the biggest musical artist of 1990? Janet Jackson
47. Wolf Entertainment produces this successful media franchise. HINT: Dun dun! Law & Order
48. What handheld gaming device did Nintendo release in North America in 1990? Game Boy
49. What was the name of the bar’s lovable but dimwitted coach in the early seasons of Cheers? Ernie “Coach” Pantusso, played by Nicholas Colasanto
50. What is the title of Stephen King’s 1990 psychological horror novel about an obsessed fan holding an author captive? Misery
51. Which song by Mariah Carey, released in 1990, became her first number-one single? Vision of Love
52. Star Trek Question, with a hint. Who are they? HINT: “You will be assimilated.” The Borg
53. Which actress played the role of Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy? Madonna
54. What was the name of the song Madonna performed that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song? Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)
55. Who was the Pope in 1990? John Paul II (October 16, 1978 – April 2, 2005)
56. What sitcom about a wealthy African-American family living in a Washington, DC, penthouse aired its final season in 1990? The Jeffersons
57. What was the famous song by Sir MIxx A lot? HINT: Stop! Hammer time! U Can’t Touch This
58. Which Quasi-religious organization does Homer Simpson briefly join in “Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment”? The Stonecutters
59. What holiday is Die Hard 2 set during? Christmas
60. What is the theme song of Cheers titled? “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
61. On which network did Murder, She Wrote originally air in the United States? CBS
62. Harry Shearer voices this Simpsons character and first appeared in the episode “Krusty Gets Busted.”HINT: He works at Springfield Channel 6 Kent Brockman
63. This gothic romantic fantasy film featured Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, among others. HINT: Johnny Depp was in it too. Edward Scissorhands
64. Which Full House character often says, “Have mercy!”? Jesse Katsopolis
65. What planet plays a central role in the plot of Total Recall? Mars
66. Who signed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990? George H.W. Bush
67. What is the segment’s name where Garfield answers viewer mail? “Garfield’s Mailbag”
68. In Pretty Woman, what does Vivian famously say when she goes shopping after being snubbed? “Big mistake. Big. Huge!”
69. “A new kind of car company” launched in 1990. Name that car brand. HUNT: It went defunct in 2010. HINT II: It was a subsidiary of General Motors. Saturn
70. What team won the Super Bowl in 1990? San Francisco 49ers
71. What was the most-watched program ever to air on PBS Ken Burns’s The Civil War documentary series
72. Movie and Book Question. What type of vessel is the Red October? A Soviet nuclear submarine
73. What movie rating replaced “X”? NC-17
74. Luther Van Dam served as the defensive coordinator on TV’s Coach. Name the actor. Jerry Van Dyke
75. What nickname is given to the two burglars in Home Alone? The Wet Bandits
76. What radio show introduced America to the phrase “Baba booey”? The Howard Stern Show
77. Who was the President of Iraq who led the invasion and annexation of Kuwait, triggering the Persian Gulf War in 1990? Saddam Hussein
78. The DuckTales TV show had a feature film in 1990. What was it called? DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
79. An animated environmental edutainment series created by Barbara Pyle and Ted Turner premiered on Turner’s cable channel TBS and lasted six seasons. What was it called? Captain Planet (and the Planeteers)
80. Movie Question. What name does the Sioux tribe give to John Dunbar? Dances with Wolves
81. Which MTV series debuted in 1990 was the first to focus exclusively on rap and hip-hop music? Yo! MTV Raps
82. Which 1990 movie starring Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland involves medical students experimenting with near-death experiences? Flatliners
83. What did Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, David Spade and Julia Sweeney famously do in 1979? They joined the cast of Saturday Night Live.
84. Who was People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People cover star in 1990? Michelle Pfeiffer
85. Who was the Vice-President in 1990? Dan Quayle (January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993)
86. Who won the World Series in 1990? Cincinnati Reds
87. What country won the World Cup in 1990? West Germany
88. Who became the first democratically elected President of Poland in 1990, playing a key role in ending communist rule in the country? Lech Wałęsa
89. Who were the Stanley Cup Champions in 1990? Edmonton Oilers
90. On The Simpsons, shat is the name of the 3-eyed fish that lives in Springfield’s River? Blinky
Team Trivia Bonus Questions:
1. What is Maggie Simpson’s first word in “Lisa’s First Word”? “Daddy”
2. Who did President George H. W. Bush posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to in 1990? Jesse Owens
3. What is the name of the fictional movie Kevin watches in Home Alone? Angels with Filthy Souls
4. What was the title of Madonna’s controversial 1990 world tour? Blond Ambition World Tour
5. Which Rescue Rangers character’s appearance was inspired by Indiana Jones, featuring a fedora and bomber jacket? Chip
6. Name the wrestler who defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania VI from Toronto’s SkyDome. The Ultimate Warrior
7. What time was the “Doomsday Clock” set to, in 1990? 10 minutes to midnight
8. What is Godwin’s Law? HINT: It’s an Internet thing As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
9. Who wrote the children’s book Shrek! in 1990? William Steig
10. What is the name of the vigilante ally who wears a hockey mask in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Casey Jones
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began, from St. Charles, Missouri.
US President #16 Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to receive a patent, on his floating drydock on May 22, 1849, US patent #6469.
1906 – The Wright brothers were granted US Patent (#821,393) for their “Flying-Machine”.
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launched The Great Society.
May 22, 1990 – Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released.
May 22 Birthday (fictional) Ash Ketchum, Pokemon
If you were born on May 22nd, You were likely conceived the week of… August 29th (prior year)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930), the writer of Sherlock Holmes, ingested a small amount of poison and kept increasing the amount every day until he could no longer stand the ill effects. He stopped his experiment after being stricken by “persistent diarrhea, severe frontal headache, and great depression”
May 22 is…
Buy a Musical Instrument Day Maritime Day Vanilla Pudding Day
May 22 Birthday Quotes
“If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don’t want help, you want attention.” – Naomi Campbell
“You see, but you do not observe.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible.” – Sun Ra
“By believing in his dreams, man turns them into reality.” – Herge
“I think it’s weird seeing myself on the television, but it’s great!” – Camren Bicondova
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
May 22 Birthdays
1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (died in 1883) 1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (died in 1930) 1907 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (died in 1983) 1914 – Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (died in 1993) 1922 – Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer (died in 1987) 1938 – Richard Benjamin, American character actor and director 1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American anarchist and serial murderer, the Unabomber 1966 – Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter 1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model 1970 – Brody Stevens, American comedic actor (died in 2019) 1999 – Camren Bicondova, American actress
May 22 History
May 22 Birthday (fictional) Ash Ketchum, Pokemon
1455 England’s War of the Roses began when the Yorkists defeated King Henry VI’s Lancastrian forces at St. Albans.
1762 Trevi Fountain was officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
1807 A grand jury indicted former Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, on a charge of treason.
1819 SS Savannah left port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, starting a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1848 Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl) – 18,491 ft (5,636 m) – Mexico – First ascent: May 22, 1848, by William F. Raynolds and John Tully
1849 Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent (#6,469) for “buoying boats over shoals.”
1906 Orville and Wilbur Wright were granted a patent (#821,393) for their flight control system.
1927 (Earthquake) Gulang/Gansu, China
1960 (Earthquake) Magnitude 9.5 in Chile killed 5,000 and left 2,000,000 homeless.
1961 #1 Hit May 22, 1961 – May 28, 1961: Ernie K-Doe – Mother-in-Law
1965 #1 Hit May 22, 1965 – May 28, 1965: The Beatles – Ticket to Ride
1976 #1 Hit May 22, 1976 – May 28, 1976: Wings – Silly Love Songs
1992 Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show for the last time
1993 NBC broadcasted the graduation episode (series finale) for Saved By The Bell.
1995 Blossom came to an end on NBC
2001 Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure aired on The Disney Channel
2004 #1 Hit May 22, 2004 – July 9, 2004: Usher – Burn
2010 #1 Hit May 22, 2010 – June 18, 2010: Eminem – Not Afraid
2011 (Tornado) Joplin, Missouri
2017 Twenty-two people were killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
2021 #1 Hit May 22, 2021 – May 28, 2021: Leave the Door Open – Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak)
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
A group of letters is a word, a group of numbers is a number. #words #numbers
Australia’s Dingoes are actually ancient stray dogs.
The Krispy Kreme Klub would actually be a thing if it weren’t for the criminal acts of the Klu Klux Klan.
If life is unfair for everyone, then life is fair.
“Waka Flocka Waka Flocka, Waka waka waka flocka.” #songlyrics
Madonna did her own hair and make-up and supplied her own wardrobe in “Desperately Seeking Susan”.
“When you’re a Jet, you’re a top cat in town. You’re a gold medal kid with the heavyweight crown!” – The Jets #moviequotes
“If ever words were spoken, painful and untrue, I said I loved but I lied ” #songlyrics
Useless Pronunciation: I as in iguana
“And I slept in last night clothes and tomorrow’s dreams .. but they’re not quite what they seem” #songlyrics
Drummer Stewart Copeland of the Police composed the soundtrack of “Spyro the Dragon” and the following three Spyro games.
“Find a voice in a whisper.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
If life seems jolly rotten, There’s something you’ve forgotten, And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing. When you’re feeling in the dumps, Don’t be silly chumps. Just purse your lips and whistle. That’s the thing…
-Monty Python (From Life of Brian)
Giving and accepting advice is one part of life that helps us through the trials and tribulations we are faced with. The problem with advice is that we often don’t take it, especially if it means doing or admitting something that we’d rather not. Sometimes advice brings up an option you didn’t think of before or gives you another question without an answer. Often inspiring and uplifting, sometimes a cold slap in the face, and occasionally funny, the great thing about advice songs is that you can kick back and listen to someone else coach you through a challenging situation while rocking out at the same time.
Advice may be given… advice may be taken. Even advice without an answer can remind you that you are never alone.
ADVICE
Definition: an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct. Advice, reflective thought and a pause in instinctive reactions can help people make the right decisions.
PONDER
Definition: to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate or to weigh carefully in the mind and consider thoughtfully.
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape You don’t spit into the wind You don’t the pull the mask off an ol’ Lone Ranger And you don’t mess around with Jim
-You Don’t Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce
1970-1979 Advice Songs Chart
1. Let It Be – The Beatles
2. Father and Son – Cat Stevens
3. Give Peace A Chance – John Lennon
4. The Gambler – Kenny Rogers
5. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
6. Imagine – John Lennon
7. Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life- Monty Python
8. You Don’t Mess Around With Jim – Jim Croce
9. Take This Job and Shove It – Johnny Paycheck
10. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? – Chicago
11. Whatever Gets You Through The Night – John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band
12. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon
13.Don’t You Worry Bout a Thing – Stevie Wonder
14. Lyin’ Eyes – The Eagles
15. Simple Man – Lynyrd Skynyrd
16. Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
17. You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees
18. Hold Your Head Up – Argent
19. Only The Good Die Young – Billy Joel
20. You’re a Big Girl Now – The Stylistics
21. I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash
22. Garden Party – Rick Nelson
23. Sing a Song – Earth Wind and Fire
24. Carry On – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
25. The Logical Song – Supertramp
26. Cat’s In The Cradle – Harry Chapin
27. You Better Think Twice – Poco
28. Get Down Tonight – KC and the Sunshine Band
29. Surrender – Cheap Trick
30. Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man) – Styx
31. Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain and Tenille
32. Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
33. Slow Ride – Foghat
34. Take the Money and Run – Steve Miller Band
35. Billy, Don’t Be A Hero – Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
36. (Don’t Bother with a) Local Girl – by Graham Parker
37. Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind) – The Delfonics
38. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow – Frank Zappa
39. It Don’t Come Easy – Ringo Starr
40. Misunderstanding – Genesis
41. Desperado – The Eagles
42. So It Goes – Nick Lowe
43. Can’t Get It Out Of My Head – Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
44. Shower The People – James Taylor
45. Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley and the Wailers
46. It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll) – AC/DC
47. Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady – Helen Reddy
48. Old Man – Neil Young
49. Listen To The Music – Doobie Brothers
50. Nature’s Way – Spirit
51. Carry On, Wayward Son – Kansas
52. He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother – The Hollies
53. I Am… I Said – Neil Diamond
54. Don’t Expect Me To Be Your Friend – Lobo
55. Everybody Plays The Fool – The Main Ingredient
56. Teach Your Children – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
57. I Don’t Know How To Love Him – Helen Reddy or Yvonne Elliman
58. Pick Up The Pieces – AWB (Average White Band)
59. It’s Too Late – Carole King
60. Hurting Each Other – The Carpenters
61. Accidents Will Happen – Elvis Costello
62. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
63. Tight Rope – Leon Russell
64. Hold The Line – Toto
65. Go All The Way – Raspberries
66. Keep Yourself Alive – Queen
67. Gotta Serve Somebody – Bob Dylan
68. I Believe In Music – Mac Davis
69. If You Love Me (Let Me Know) – Olivia Newton-John
70. Gonna Fly Now – Bill Conti
71. Get Dancin’ – Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
72. I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You – Alan Parson Project
73. Give Me Just A Little More Time – Chairmen of the Board
74. Changes – David Bowie
75. Love The One You’re With – Stephen Stills
76. Mind Games – John Lennon
77. Get It Right Next Time – Gerry Rafferty
78. Attitude Dancing – Carly Simon
79. Domino – Van Morrison
80. What a Fool Believes – Doobie Brothers
81. Treat Her Like A Lady – Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
82. Don’t Look Back – Boston
83. Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
84. I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl) – Instant Funk
85. Ease on Down The Road – Diana Ross & Michael Jackson
86. I Need To Know – Tom Petty
87. Part of the Plan – Dan Fogelberg
88. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – Elton John and Kiki Dee
89. Blinded By The Light – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
90. Mainstreet – Bob Seger
91. If You Don’t Know Me By Now – Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes
92. Too Late To Turn Back Now – Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
93. Don’t Bring Me Down – Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
94. Just What I Needed – The Cars
95. Remember – Greg Kihn Band
96. Girls Will Be Girls, Boys Will Be Boys – Isley Brothers
1881 – The American Red Cross was established by Clara Barton in Washington, DC.
1972 – Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome was damaged by a mentally disturbed Hungarian, Laszlo Toth.
2001 – French Taubira law officially recognized the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2017 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
If you were born on May 21st, You were likely conceived the week of… August 28th (prior year)
May 21 is…
Strawberries & Cream Day Talk Like Yoda Day International Tea Day
May 21 Birthday Quotes
“People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.” – Harold Robbins
“If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.” – Fats Waller
“Music makes me want to dance but I’m not sure that’s something anybody wants to observe.” – Gotye
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.” – Al Franken
“Jazz isn’t what you do; it’s how you do it.” – Fats Waller
“Hemmingway was a jerk.” – Harold Robbins
May 21 Birthdays
1904 – Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died in 1943) 1916 – Harold Robbins, American author and screenwriter (died in 1997) 1917 – Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (died in 1993) 1940 – Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died in 2013) 1945 – Richard Hatch, American actor (died in 2017) 1951 – Al Franken, American comedic actor, screenwriter, and politician 1960 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (died in 1994) 1980 – Gotye, Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter 1985 – Alison Carroll, English gymnast, model, and actress 1992 – Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
May 21 History
1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 caused $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (a heart attack).
1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a “thrill killing”.
1955 – George B. Hansburg of Walker Valley, N.Y. was issued a patent (#2,793,036) for his invention of an improved pogo stick.
1975 – Carol Burnett was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1977 – Broadway Show – Gemini (Play) May 21, 1977
1977 #1 Hit May 21, 1977 – June 10, 1977: Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
1980 – Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released in theaters. At the time, we just called it The Empire Strikes Back.
1980 – The Coyote finally caught the Road Runner.
1980 – President Jimmy Carter declared a state of emergency at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York – a toxic dumping site for Hooker Chemicals and Plastics.
1983 #1 Hit May 21, 1983 – May 27, 1983: David Bowie – Let’s Dance
1992- The first episode of The Real World aired on MTV
1992- The final episode of MacGyver aired on ABC
1994 #1 Hit May 21, 1994 – August 5, 1994: All-4-One – I Swear
1999- All My Children actress Susan Lucci finally received an Emmy award for her role as Erica Kane. She had been previously nominated for a record 18 times with no win.
2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opened at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2008 – David Cook won American Idol season seven.
2001 – Radio broadcaster/preacher Harold Camping predicted that the world would end today. It didn’t.
2011 #1 Hit May 21, 2011 – July 8, 2011: Adele – Rolling in the Deep
#1 Hit – May 21, 2016 – May 27, 2016: Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla – One Dance
#1 Hit May 21, 2022 – June 3, 2022: First Class – Jack Harlow
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
I’d find less money on the ground if I was more confident.
Stacy is probably hotter than her mom by now.
Chaka Khan – Real Name: Yvette Marie Stevens
“Go ahead, make my day.” – Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) #moviequotes
I find myself irrationally excited when someone ask me a question and the answer is 42.
The vuvuzela (stadium horn), producing 120dB, can cause permanent hearing loss at a distance of 1 meter.
A group of Porpoises is called a Herd or Pod or School or Crowd or Shoal.
Tom Thumb – Real Name: Charles Stratton
“Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?” – Cesare Enrico “Rico” Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) #moviequotes
Useless Pronunciation: X as in Xerxes
“Sock it to me” (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
“Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.” – Madeleine in Vertigo #moviequotes
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.
1883 – Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
1940 – The first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp.
1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb was dropped over Bikini Atoll
If you were born on May 20th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 27th (prior year)
Charles A. Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight
US aviator Charles A. Lindbergh took off in the Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris, France. The flight of Charles Lindbergh was a courageous feat, which many thought could not be accomplished. The American aviator flew the first open plane across the Atlantic Ocean and completed an admirable trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, France in 33 hours. Lindbergh completed the historic 1937 record when he landed at Le Bourget Field on May 21st, after flying 3389 miles alone, without any stopover to refuel or rest. He also won The Orteig Prize, a $25,000 reward
May 20 is…
Be a Millionaire Day Pick Strawberries Day Quiche Lorraine Day
May 20 Birthday Quotes
“You need to sweat yourself. Don’t sweat nobody else.” – Busta Rhymes
“The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tire and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That’s your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.” – Timothy Olyphant
“If you’re waiting for someone to believe in you, you’ll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.” – Cher
“You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.” – James Stewart
“I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.” – Joe Cocker
“Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it’s contagious.” – James Stewart
May 20 Birthdays
1908 – James Stewart, American actor (died in 1997) 1911 – Gardner Fox, American comic book author (died in 1986) 1919 – George Gobel, American comedian (died in 1991) 1944 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (died in 2014) 1946 – Cher, American singer and actress 1949 – Dave Thomas, Canadian comedic actor 1965 – Ted Allen, American television host and author 1968 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor 1972 – Busta Rhymes, American rapper 1992 – Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
May 20 History
325 – The First Council of Nicaea formally opened.
1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob W Davis patented (#139,121) copper-riveted jeans, designed to help prevent tears in the fabric.
1899 – The American Physical Society was founded at Columbia University.
1901 – Claude Grivolas patented (French) a projector for three-dimensional (stereoscopic) movies viewed wearing spectacles with one red and one blue lens.
1916 – The Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting – ‘Boy with Baby Carriage’.
May 20, 1924 Birthday (fictional) Archie Bunker, All in the Family, TV
1927 – US aviator Charles A. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (New York to Paris.)
1949 – The Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency (NSA), was established.
1957 – Pilot Milton Torres was ordered to intercept a UFO over East Anglia, UK
1967 #1 Hit May 20, 1967 – June 2, 1967: Young Rascals – Groovin’
1978 #1 Hit May 20, 1978 – June 2, 1978: Wings – With a Little Luck
1983 – First publication of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
1989 #1 Hit May 20, 1989 – June 2, 1989: Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl
1993 – 80 million people watched the series finale of Cheers on NBC
1994- The Joan Rivers Show (FOX) came to an end
1995 – Star Search (syndicated) came to an end.
1995 – Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of the White House, was closed to traffic
1996 – NBC’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air series came to an end
1997 – Roseanne series came to an end on ABC
2003 – America’s Next Top Model premiered on UPN
#1 Hit May 20, 2017 – May 26, 2017: DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne – I’m the One
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Synonyms are a synonym for “another word for”.
Warsaw Pact countries had Western Movies where the Native Americans were heroes and the cowboys were villains.
It was the Middle Ages. There’s no way Rapunzel didn’t have lice.
Useless Pronunciation: E as in empty
“I do not believe in my death.” – Salvador Dali #LastWords
“Nostalgia is denial—denial of the painful present.” – Paul in Midnight in Paris #moviequotes
Every zoo can be a petting zoo if you’re brave enough.
Bacteria multiply by dividing.
“I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree.” #songlyrics
In 2000, Blockbuster passed on the chance to buy Netflix for $50 million. Netflix is now worth over $50 billion.
1848 – Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day US states to the United States for $15 million.
1962 – Marilyn Monroe sang her famous Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy at NYC’s Madison Square Garden.
May 19, 2124 (fiction) Jake Sully landed on Pandora, Avatar, Film
If you were born on May 19th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 26th (prior year)
https://youtu.be/JHt1_HXN8LI?t=66
Devil’s Food Cake
Devil’s Food Cake probably originated in the Southern United States. It first appeared in print in 1902, in Sarah Tyson Rorer’s book, Mrs. Rorer’s New Cook Book, though it was actually named somewhat before that. With cocoa powder and melted chocolate, it has an almost silky and velvety texture. It traditionally has more chocolate than a regular chocolate cake, making it darker, and usually comes with dark chocolate icing.
May 19 is…
Devil’s Food Cake Day May Ray Day
May 19 Birthday Quotes
“I don’t like to speak badly of people.” – Andre the Giant
“I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.” – Grace Jones
“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.” – Malcolm X
“For me, punk is about real feelings. It’s not about, ‘Yeah, I am a punk and I’m angry.’ That’s a lot of crap. It’s about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart, and soul.” – Joey Ramone
“If something’s not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.” – Nicholas Winton
“Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That’s inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.” – Pete Townshend
May 19 Birthdays
1795 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (died in 1873) 1909 – Nicholas Winton, English banker and humanitarian (died in 2015) 1925 – Malcolm X, American minister and activist (died in 1965) 1944 – Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (died in 2019) 1945 – Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter 1946 – André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor (died in 1993) 1948 – Grace Jones, Jamaican-American singer-songwriter 1951 – Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (died in 2001) 1983 – Michael Che, American comedian 1991 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer-songwriter 1992 – Marshmello, American electronic music producer and DJ 1992 – Sam Smith, English singer-songwriter
May 19 History
1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
1780 – The Dark Day: that morning, a combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover caused complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States candles were needed by noon, and they did not disburse until the following evening, causing New England’s Dark Day.
1910 – Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet.
1965 – Pete Townshend wrote My Generation today, his 20th birthday on a train. He was on a train because his car, a 1935 Packard hearse, was ordered away by the Queen.
1973 #1 Hit May 19, 1973 – May 25, 1973: Stevie Wonder – You Are the Sunshine of My Life
1987 – A patent (#4,666,425) for “keeping a head alive” was issued to Chet Fleming.
1990 #1 Hit May 19, 1990 – June 8, 1990: Madonna – Vogue
1994 – In Living Color (FOX) and L.A. Law (NBC) came to an end
1996 – Sundance Channel made its debut.
1997 – Avian flu, A(H5N1), killed a three-year-old boy in Hong Kong, its first victim.
2006 – The Da Vinci Code opened in theaters.
2009 – Glee premiered on FOX
2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor
#1 Hit May 19, 2018 – June 15, 2018: Childish Gambino – This Is America
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
I’d never want to start a furniture store, they are always going out of business.
In the event of an apocalypse, I would spend the first 20 minutes wondering why the internet doesn’t work.
The Seven Virtues #4- Fortitude is never giving up.
The first reference to Google on TV was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Last night I had to change a light bulb, a bit later on I crossed the road, then walked into a bar. I began to realize my life was one big joke.
There should be an annual award ceremony for the best Instagram photos and it should be called “The Instagrammys.”
Five Card Poker Odds, nothing wild: Royal Flush – A, K, Q, J, 10 of the same suit, 1 in 650,000
A group of Dentists area Brace.
“I’m sorry Dave but this conversation can no longer serve any useful purpose. Good-bye.” – HAL 9000 #moviequotes
The Swiss were very confident they’d win the war considering there is a corkscrew on the Swiss Army knife.
Behind every crazy fun food fight, there’s a disappointed service worker that worked hard trying to feed everybody.
“I want to be alone.” – Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo) #moviequotes
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln won the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward.
1953 – Jackie Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.
If you were born on May 18th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 25th (prior year)
1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted with a 5.1 magnitude, causing a massive avalanche and killed 57 people. David Johnson was a volcanologist studying Mt. St. Helens from 6 miles away when it erupted. He made a transmission stating: “Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” as the volcano erupted. The transmission went dead at this point, and his body was never recovered.
Knowing he would not survive, photographer Robert Landsburg, photographed the event and rewound the film back into its case, put his camera in his backpack, and then laid himself on top of the backpack in an attempt to protect the film. His body was found 17 days later, buried in the ash with his backpack. The film was developed and has provided geologists with valuable documentation of the historic eruption.
May 18 is…
Cheese Soufflé Day Museum Day No Dirty Dishes Day
May 18 Birthday Quotes
“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.” – Tina Fey
“When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn’t know quite how to classify. Those were my choices.” – Mark Mothersbaugh
“My only regret in life is that I didn’t spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.” – Perry Como
Like a one-eyed cat peepin’ in a seafood store. – Big Joe Turner
“No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.” – Frank Capra
May 18 Birthdays
1822 – Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (died in 1896) 1855 – Francis Bellamy, American minister and author (died in 1931) 1897 – Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died in 1991) 1911 – Big Joe Turner, American blues artist, R&B singer (died in 1985) 1912 – Perry Como, American singer and television host (died in 2001) 1917 – Bill Everett, American comic book author and illustrator (died in 1973) 1931 – Don Martin, American cartoonist, Mad Magazine (died in 2000) 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh, American singer-songwriter 1970 – Tina Fey, American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1992 – Adwoa Aboah, British fashion model
May 18 History
1910 The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet.
1912 The first major Indian film, Shree Pundalik, by Dadasaheb Torne, was released in Mumbai.
1926 In one of the first Media Frenzies of Popular Culture, Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared while visiting a Venice, California beach.
1946 A UFO, with living creatures inside, was reported by Gosta Carlsson in Sweden.
1952 Professor Willard F. Libby determined the age of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, England, at 1848 BC, give or take 275 years.
1956 Lhotse – 27,940 ft (8,516 m) – Nepal/Tibet – First ascent: May 18, 1956, by Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss
1958 Team Lotus made its Formula One debut in the Monaco Grand Prix.
1959 #1 Hit May 18, 1959 – May 31, 1959: Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City
1963 #1 Hit May 18, 1963 – May 31, 1963: Jimmy Soul – If You Wanna Be Happy
1968 #1 Hit May 18, 1968 – May 3, 1968: Archie Bell & the Drells – Tighten Up
1974 India successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon, becoming the sixth nation in the Nuclear Club.
1974 #1 Hit May 18, 1974 – June 7, 1974: Ray Stevens – The Streak
1980 Ian Curtis of the post-punk band Joy Division committed suicide. The remaining members went on to form New Order.
1985 #1 Hit May 18, 1985 – May 24, 1985: Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
1991 #1 Hit May 18, 1991 – May 24, 1991: Hi-Five – I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)
1994 Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
1996 #1 Hit May 18, 1996 – July 12, 1996: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Tha Crossroads
1998 Murphy Brown TV series ended on CBS.
2001 Based on William Steig’s 1990 children’s book, Shrek was released in movie theaters.
2005 A photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
2013 #1 Hit May 18, 2013 – June 21, 2013: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton – Can’t Hold Us
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
The founder of Macy’s, Rowland Hussey, who was a Quaker, is credited with inventing the price tag. Quakers believed it was immoral to barter – charging people different prices for the same product.
“My phone vibrated in my pocket, as my mother sent me a photo via Messenger” sounds like a description of a Salvador Dali painting.
“Rope a dope” is a boxing technique where you allow your opponent to punch you heavily against the ropes, tiring them out. The ropes absorb most of the impact of the punches.
Jack Nicholson made $35 million from Batman Returns – and he doesn`t appear in the film at all!
Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro are the only two actors to win an Oscar for playing the same character. The first played Vito Corleone in The Godfather; the second played Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
The Capital of Sri Lanka is Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative)
“I brought you flours.” – Harold Crick in Stranger Than Fiction
A doctor tells his patient he’s got only six months to live… but the patient doesn’t pay his bill on time, so the doctor gives him another six months. (ta-tish!)
17 out of the 20 tallest statues in the world are Buddhist
“What a dump.” – Rosa Moline (Bette Davis) in Beyond the Forest, 1949
The first porn film was A’Ecu d’Or in 1908.
In James Bond, when in Dr. No’s cave in the 1962 film, he stops to notice a painting found on an easel next to the stairs. It is a copy of a Francisco de Goya painting of Duke Wellington that was stolen in 1961. It was recovered in 1965.
1756 – Seven Years’ War formally began when Great Britain declared war on France.
1900 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, was first published in the United States.
1954 – The US Supreme Court declared a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the US were performed in the state of Massachusetts.
If you were born on May 17th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 24th (prior year)
L. Frank Baum Oz Book Checklist
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) 3. Ozma of Oz (1907) 4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) 5. The Road to Oz (1909) 6. The Emerald City of Oz (1910) 7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) 8. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) 9. The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) 10. Rinkitink in Oz (1916) 11. The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) 12. The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918) 13. The Magic of Oz (1919) 14. Glinda of Oz (1920)
May 17 is…
Cherry Cobbler Day Pack Rat Day World Telecommunications Day
May 17 Birthday Quotes
Slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: “Does this need to be said?” “Does this need to be said by me?” “Does this need to be said by me now?” – Craig Ferguson
“As with anything creative, change is inevitable.” – Enya
“You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.” – Sugar Ray Leonard
“It’s nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality.” – Maureen O’Sullivan
“If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.” – Trent Reznor
May 17 Birthdays
1889 – Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (died in 1946) 1911 – Maureen O’Sullivan, Irish-American actress (died in 1998) 1942 – Taj Mahal, American blues singer-songwriter and musician 1955 – Bill Paxton, American character actor (died in 2017) 1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer 1956 – Bob Saget, American comedic actor and television host 1956 – Dave Sim, Canadian comic book illustrator and author 1961 – Enya, Irish singer-songwriter 1962 – Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American comedian, actor, and talk show host 1965 – Trent Reznor, American singer-songwriter 1985 – Derek Hough, American actor and dancer 1988 – Nikki Reed, American actress
May 17 History
1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage.
1792 – The New York Stock Exchange was formed.
1875 – Aristides won the first Kentucky Derby.
1890 – Comic Cuts, the first British weekly comic paper, was published in London by Alfred Northcliffe.
1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers played in the United States’ first televised sporting (baseball) event.
1952 #1 Hit May 17, 1952 – June 20, 1952: Leroy Anderson – Blue Tango
1954 – The US Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities was unconstitutional.
1955 – Nathan Kline, appeared before the U.S. Congress to explain his work with Reserpine, an early antihypertensive/ antipsychotic psychopharmacology drug.
1958 #1 Hit May 17, 1958 – June 13, 1958: The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream
1965 – Written in 1955, the FBI Laboratory, after a formal investigation that began in 1964, declared the lyrics of Louie Louie to be officially ‘Unintelligible at any speed.’
1970 – Thor Heyerdahl and a multinational crew set out from Morocco across the Atlantic Ocean in Ra II in 57 days.
1973 – Televised hearings regarding the Watergate Scandal begin in the United States Senate.
1977 – Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese’s in San Jose, California.
1986 #1 Hit May 17, 1986 – June 6, 1986: Whitney Houston – Greatest Love of All
1995 – Shawn Nelson (August 21, 1959 – May 17, 1995) stole an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.
2000 – The final episode of Beverly Hills 90210 aired on FOX.
2014 #1 Hit May 17, 2014 – June 6, 2014: John Legend – All of Me
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Someone was probably using the phrase, “like it’s going out of style” like it was going out of style when it was going out of style.
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; teach him how to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime” – Anne Isabella Ritchie #shesaiditfirst
Most of us have a nicer phone than the richest man in the world did five years ago.
Approximately 107 Billion people are believed to have lived on Earth.
Along with the prospect of life on other planets, there must be an equal possibility of new herbs and spices that could be used in cooking.
I’ll consider my life a success if I never drop my phone in the toilet.
“I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.” #songlyrics
Baked beans are actually not baked, but stewed.
“Be excellent to each other, and… party on, dudes! – Abraham Lincoln #moviequotes
The song “happy birthday” doesn’t have any verbs.
Cyd Charisse – Real Name: Tula Ellice Finklea
“I’m doing what I’ve always done. Learning from the mistakes of others who take my advice.” – Nitya Prakash
1866 – The United States Congress established the 5-cent nickel.
1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It was repealed on December 13, 1920.
1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights began, between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London.
If you were born on May 16th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 23rd (prior year)
Hires Root Beer
In Philadelphia, Charles Hires was the first to successfully market a commercial brand of root beer. The key to the original flavoring is Sassafras and Sarsaparilla. Native Americans used both of them as a topical ointment for wounds and acne, so like most sodas when they started, Root Beer was presented as an exotic, healthy drink.
The beverage proved to be popular, and pharmacies and people brewed them home style, but Charles Elmer Hires perfected Root Beer as we know it and sold it at The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. The Centennial Celebration was the First World’s Fair in the United States.
May 16 is…
Biographer’s Day Coquilles St. Jacques Day
May 16 Birthday Quotes
“Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There’s only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.” – Tori Spelling
“I don’t believe in luck. It’s persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.” – Janet Jackson
“Years ago when I started doing TV and making appearances in big arenas, the place would put security guys up there and I said, “Please don’t do that. It’s very distracting to see ten cops in front of the stage. Everybody’s looking at the officers instead of me. I don’t want that.” I also found that people will dare to break a barricade. If they have a barricade, somebody will always try to jump over it. I’ve found that the more open I am, the better.” – Liberace
“Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.” – Yvonne Craig
“Just be you. I’ve learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they’ll always have something to say.” – Megan Fox
May 16 Birthdays
1801 – William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (died in 1872) 1892 – Osgood Perkins, American character actor (died in 1937) 1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor (died in 1982) 1919 – Liberace, American pianist and entertainer (died in 1987) 1937 – Yvonne Craig, American actress (died in 2015) 1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor 1951 – Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor 1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter 1969 – Tucker Carlson, American journalist 1969 – David Boreanaz, American actor 1973 – Tori Spelling, American actress and reality television personality 1986 – Megan Fox, American actress 1990 – Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor
May 16 History
1866 – Charles Elmer Hires invented Root Beer in Philadelphia, PA.
1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany.
1920 – Pope Benedict XV canonized Joan of Arc.
1946 – Broadway Show – Annie Get Your Gun (Musical) May 16, 1946
1946 – Jack Mullin demonstrated the first magnetic tape recorder.
1964 #1 Hit May 16, 1964 – May 29, 1964: Mary Wells – My Guy. Motown Records got its first #1 hit with the song.
1966 – The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde were both released.
1981 #1 Hit May 16, 1981 – June 19, 1981: Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
1983 – The concert special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever was broadcast by NBC; Michael Jackson performed his ‘moonwalk’ dance for the first time on television.
1987 #1 Hit May 16, 1987 – June 5, 1987: U2 – With or Without You
1988 – Nicotine was declared to be addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine, in a report released by US Surgeon-General C. Everett Koop.
1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the United States Congress.
1996 – 12 million people tuned in for the series finale of Murder, She Wrote on CBS. The show was the longest-running American Murder-Mystery drama.
1998 – Unsolved Mysteries true-crime series ended.
May 16, 2006 – The Apple MacBook was released.
2014 – Broadcast journalist and TV personality Barbara Walters retired from ABC News and from the daytime program The View.
#1 Hit May 16, 2020 – May 22, 2020: Say So – Doja Cat featuring Nicki Minaj
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Anne Ramsey (The Goonies, Throw Mama from the Train) also founded the Theater of Living Arts (the TLA) in Philadelphia.
“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.” – Steve Martin
If 7 billion competed in a single-elimination rock paper scissor tournament, the winner would have only won 33 times in a row.
“Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can’t learn history in reverse!” – Archimedes #moviequotes
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off #moviequotes
Sometimes typing without looking at the keyboard works perfectly; other times it ends up kujw rgua~
The charcoal drawing of Kate Winslet in James Cameron’sTitanic was actually drawn by James Cameron.
