Nerdy Trivia: April 20, 2026

The whole recipe comes down to one moment: the flip. You spend an hour on caramel and batter and carefully-placed fruit, then hold your breath and turn a hot skillet onto a plate. If it lands clean, you're a baker. If it doesn't, no amount of maraschino cherries are going to distract anyone from the wreckage.

"Star Wars" made the jump to theaters in 1977 and became the highest-grossing film ever made (for a while). It racked up 11 Academy Award nominations the following spring, tied for the most of any film, but left the ceremony with only technical wins. Which film beat "Star Wars" for Best Picture?

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44 years ago TODAY, Pitfall Harry took his first vine swing over a snapping crocodile pit when Pitfall! launched on the Atari 2600 in 1982!

A jungle run that gave you 20 minutes and 255 screens to grab 32 treasures while dodging scorpions, rolling logs, quicksand, and tar pits. The vine swing alone felt like magic on a 2600 cartridge, and timing your hops across those crocodile heads was pure white-knuckle. It sold over 4 million copies, became the second-best-selling Atari 2600 cart behind Pac-Man, and spawned the 1984 sequel, Pitfall II: Lost Caverns.

With over $11.5 billion attributed to movies that have his name in it, Tom Cruise seems like he really nailed it with the whole getting named thing.

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