Nerdy Trivia: March 10, 2026

"Yahoo!" is the one exclamation that immediately puts a red cap and white gloves in your head without any other context. That theme music is also still stuck in my head thirty years later.

Who created Mario for Nintendo?

Mario has held more jobs than any character in gaming history. Plumber, doctor, go-kart racer, golfer, tennis player, and whatever sport involves throwing turnips at walking mushrooms. But his most important gig has always been saving the princess. What was Princess Peach originally called in the U.S.?

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29 years ago TODAY, a blonde cheerleader started staking vampires between homework assignments when "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" premiered on The WB in 1997!

Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy Summers mixed monster-of-the-week chaos with teen angst, heartbreak, and some very sharp one-liners. High school was the perfect place for end-of-the-world drama, with Willow, Xander, Giles, and Angel turning. The show ran for seven seasons and built the kind of cult-TV legacy that still gets talked about alongside its Emmy-recognized writing, music, hairstyling, and makeup.

What's the name of the town where "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" takes place?

The original "Planet of the Apes" hit theaters in 1968 and completely blew audiences away with its iconic twist ending and Charlton Heston screaming at the Statue of Liberty. Throughout the early 1970s, there were a string of sequels, each one somehow worse than the last. How many films did it take before Hollywood hit the pause button?

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