Nerdy Trivia: December 6, 2025

Popcorn went from a whole stovetop production to throwing a bag in and pressing a button, which should have made life easier except now everyone stands in the kitchen listening for the exact moment when the pops slow down. Leave it in three seconds too long and the smoke alarm goes off while the whole house smells like burnt failure for the next two days.

Disney's "Aladdin" transported audiences to a magical Arabian kingdom filled with bustling marketplaces, towering palaces, and endless desert stretching to the horizon. The original plan was to use Baghdad, Iraq but the Gulf War made that a little... awkward, so directors Ron Clements and John Musker invented an entirely new country. What's the name of the fictional kingdom where Aladdin steals bread, meets Princess Jasmine, and discovers his magical lamp?

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40 years ago TODAY, two clueless Washington desk jockeys got thrown into the spy game when "Spies Like Us" premiered in 1985!

Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd play Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge, shamelessly unqualified bureaucrats tapped as decoy agents and sent blundering from disastrous training drills to desert drop zones and a hidden Soviet missile silo. Packed with Road to–style buddy gags, the famous “Doctor, doctor” bit, and a Bob Hope cameo, it did solid box-office business and found a second life as a cable-and-VHS favorite for 80s kids who liked their Cold War extra silly.

"Dragon's Lair" exploded onto the arcade scene with something nobody had ever seen: movie-quality animation straight out of a Disney film. The cutting-edge LaserDisc technology meant no more blocky sprites or simple patterns. Players lined up just to watch others guide a hilariously clumsy knight through the most gorgeous death scenes in gaming history. Which animated hero turned spectacular failure into an art form?

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