Nerdy Trivia: January 23, 2026

I want to meet whoever came up with "easy as pie" because they clearly never baked anything. Unless you're some fancy Parisian pastry chef making a croquembouche, pie is one of the hardest things to pull off in a kitchen. But slap a scoop of ice cream on top, and nobody's judging your lattice work anymore.

Ted Danson played Sam Malone on "Cheers" for 11 years, and America loved him for it. Off-screen, he was a lot harder to love. He'd married producer Casey Coates in 1977, and the marriage lasted 16 years before his affair on a movie set ended it. Which actress had an affair with Ted Danson?

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83 years ago TODAY, a foggy airport goodbye turned into the gold standard for bittersweet romance when "Casablanca" opened wide in the U.S. in 1943!

Set in a wartime Moroccan nightclub where everybody’s hiding something, the film throws Rick, Ilsa, and resistance leader Victor Laszlo into a love triangle with exit visas, Nazi pressure, and “As Time Goes By” drifting in from the piano. What could’ve been just a studio melodrama turned into a quotable classic, from “Here’s looking at you, kid” to “We’ll always have Paris,” and went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture while slowly becoming the World War II love story people still try (and usually fail) to top.

Before Kenan Thompson became SNL's longest-running cast member, he was just a kid making us laugh on Nickelodeon's "All That." The sketch comedy show launched a generation of catchphrases, but every '90s kid knows the real party started with that iconic theme song. So who kicked off every episode?

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