Nerdy Trivia: July 15, 2025

They’re wiggly, stretchy, and never as fruity as their color suggests. They’ve been showing up in dirt pudding cups and movie theaters for decades, often stuck together in a candy-glued hug no one asked for but no one minds. Pulling one apart to see how far it stretches before snapping still feels oddly therapeutic decades later.

Reginald Dwight had been kicking around the music scene for a few years, putting out solid albums that critics loved and building a loyal fanbase. But by 1972, the man who'd transformed himself into Elton John was ready to make the leap from cult favorite to superstar. He'd already scored with "Your Song" and had been steadily gaining momentum, but he needed that one album that would catapult him into the stratosphere. Which album became Elton John's first #1 hit in the U.S.?

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The Academy Awards spent decades celebrating classical composers and Broadway veterans, while hip-hop shaped global culture from the outside looking in. But in 2003, the Oscars' rigid walls finally cracked. The question wasn't if a rapper would claim that golden statue, but who would break through first?

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