Nerdy Trivia: December 21, 2025

The pen versus pencil debate matters most when that five-letter word for "ancient Greek marketplace" refuses to come to mind and three other answers depend on it. Every puzzle has that one corner of the grid that mocks us for twenty minutes before the obvious answer finally clicks. What do you call a person who loves crossword puzzles?

These days, Disney owns half of Hollywood and puts out everything from Marvel blockbusters to edgy streaming shows. But back in the "Star Wars" era, the studio was genuinely struggling to stay relevant because families saw them as strictly for little kids. Which film earned Disney its first PG rating?

Take a swing at some random trivia. When you get the answer, just hit "Random Question" to keep going!

58 years ago TODAY, post-college confidence got exposed as a complete lie when "The Graduate" was released in 1967!

It followed Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, freshly minted and instantly lost, while Anne Bancroft’s Mrs. Robinson made the adult world feel like a velvet-rope trap where every compliment came with an agenda. Simon & Garfunkel hover overhead like your inner monologue with both "The Sound of Silence" and "Mrs. Robinson." It was the top-grossing film of 1967 in North America and earned seven Oscar nominations, with Mike Nichols winning Best Director, and it later landed in the National Film Registry. Whose leg is on the poster of "The Graduate"?

If you were a movie executive circa the late '70s/early '80s, I highly doubt you would have been like, "You know who's going to become a gigantic movie star? That one bodybuilder from Austria." And then there he was in Total Recall getting your you know what to Mars.

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