Nerdy Trivia: April 17, 2026

The chase scene in "Bullitt" is ten minutes of Steve McQueen in a dark green fastback, tearing down San Francisco hills. No sound. Just a 390 V8 bouncing off the pavement. Those ten minutes are why a certain kind of guy still drives a Mustang.

Regis Philbin looked so at home on television that it's weird to remember he was nearly chased out of the business before he started. His first national show in 1964 got pulled after four months, but a few years later, he got a second chance as a late-night sidekick. Which late-night host gave Regis Philbin his first network gig?

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15 years ago TODAY, a direwolf in the snow warned us that winter was coming when "Game of Thrones" premiered on HBO in 2011!

Ned Stark rode south, the Lannisters sent their regards, and a silver-haired exile hatched three dragons across the Narrow Sea. Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, and Kit Harington led a cast that turned George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" into the show everyone argued about on Monday morning. It pulled in 59 Primetime Emmys, the most ever for a scripted series, before a final season so rushed it made fans wish winter had won.

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