Nerdy Trivia: December 12, 2025

Building an edible house out of cookies and candy sounds like a fun activity until the walls collapse for the third time and the roof slides off because royal icing turns out to be a terrible construction adhesive. The candy decorations get eaten before they make it onto the structure, and what's left standing looks more like a crime scene than a charming holiday display.

For nearly 50 years, Charles M. Schulz turned out strip after strip about Charlie Brown never quite kicking that football, Snoopy's escapades in the sky, and Lucy's brutally honest advice booth. By the time he retired in 1999, the strip was running in over 2,600 newspapers worldwide. Before "Peanuts" made him the most successful cartoonist in history, what was the name of Schulz's first comic strip?

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32 years ago TODAY, one very determined stage mom dragged vaudeville back into the spotlight when CBS aired its adaptation of "Gypsy" with Bette Midler in 1993!

The film cast Midler as Rose Hovick, forever chasing a dream that keeps slipping from child-star June to quieter Louise, who eventually remade herself as Gypsy Rose Lee when the vaudeville circuit started to fade. The TV movie kept the full Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim songbook, staging "Everything’s Coming Up Roses," "You Gotta Get a Gimmick," and "Rose’s Turn" for living-room audiences, and its CBS broadcast pulled in more than 26 million viewers, earning Midler a Golden Globe for Best Actress and a stack of Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the production.

Some guitarists dream of hitting it big with face-melting solos and arena-shaking power chords, but one funk-obsessed musician from New York had a different vision. He teamed up with bassist Bernard Edwards to form Chic, one of disco's most influential bands that would go on to define an entire era with their signature rhythmic guitar style and infectious grooves. Which famous guitarist co-founded Chic?

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