Nerdy Trivia: April 11, 2026

The defining sound of the format was not music. It was the loud mechanical KA-CHUNK that interrupted the bridge of your favorite song so the tape head could jump tracks. "Stairway to Heaven" is split clean in half right in the middle of Jimmy Page's solo.

When it was time for Britney Spears to record the music video for "Oops!... I Did It Again," she wanted a red latex suit, Mars, a good-looking spaceman, and no rocket. She got all four, plus an iconic spoken-word bridge. Which '90s movie does Britney Spears reference in the spoken bridge of "Oops!... I Did It Again"?

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56 years ago TODAY, one Saturn V liftoff kicked off the moon mission that would make “Houston, we’ve had a problem” part of the language when Apollo 13 launched in 1970!

Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on what was supposed to be NASA’s third lunar landing, headed for the Fra Mauro region. Two days later, an oxygen tank explosion killed the landing plan and turned the mission into a life-or-death loop around the moon, but that’s exactly why Apollo 13 stuck. It splashed down safely on April 17 and turned a near-disaster into NASA’s most famous “successful failure.”

Game shows are a tricky thing to figure out. You need a simple enough premise that viewers can follow, but unique enough that they stick around. So when Bob Stewart created "Password," I don't think "let's have people yell words at each other until they guess the right one" would've cut it. But when one of the shouters is Carol Burnett, Peter Lawford, or Zsa Zsa Gabor? Now we're talking. Which TV personality completed the winning formula as the show's first host?

Check out more celeb birthdays in today's birthday post!