Nerdy Trivia: December 11, 2025

Plate tectonics spent millions of years shoving continents together to create the tallest peaks on Earth, and now people drive straight to the scenic overlook parking lot to snap photos without walking more than twenty feet. I'll take my inclines on a treadmill where the AC works and there's zero chance of twisting an ankle on a rock or encountering wildlife that wants to eat me. Which mountain range separates Europe and Asia?

Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" has been brought to the stage and screen countless times, but dropping the feuding families into 1950s Manhattan as rival street gangs was something else entirely. "West Side Story" became a landmark Broadway musical in 1957, then a massive Oscar-winning film in 1961, and even got a fresh remake in 2021. The whole story hinges on two gangs fighting for control of the Upper West Side neighborhood. What are the names of those two rival gangs?

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40 years ago TODAY, Mary Tyler Moore went back to the newsroom when her sitcom "Mary" premiered on CBS in 1985!

Set at a second-rate Chicago tabloid, the show followed divorced fashion writer Mary Brenner as she rebooted her career writing a consumer "Helpline" column, trading glossy layouts for shady landlords, bad products, and a bullpen full of cranks and cynics. Its thirteen-episode run (with the first two episodes directed by Danny DeVito!) gave MTM fans one more round of workplace banter and soft-focus reinvention.

Back in the 1400s, making books was about as efficient as copying your friend's homework with your eyes closed. Each page had to be handwritten by monks, which meant a single book could cost more than a house and take years to finish. Everyone knew there had to be a better way to spread information around. When the printing press showed up, it completely transformed how humans shared ideas. But who came up with it?

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