Nerdy Trivia: March 2, 2026

Every kitchen gadget store has a section dedicated to helping you make a McMuffin at home, and every single one of those gadgets takes longer than just driving to McDonald's. I own the Hamilton Beach breakfast sandwich maker, and it has lived under my counter for two years as a monument to optimism.

What year did McDonald’s launch the Happy Meal nationwide?

"We had joy, we had fun" was the kind of lyric that made music critics physically recoil. Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun" sold 14 million copies in 1974 and spent three weeks at number one, but it didn't start as soft-rock schmaltz. "Seasons in the Sun" was originally sung in what language?

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47 years ago TODAY, one word on a piece of cardboard shut a whole factory up when “Norma Rae” was released in 1979!

Set in a deafening Southern textile mill, the film follows Norma Rae Webster as she goes from worn-out single mom on the line to the loudest voice for unionizing. Loosely inspired by real-life organizer Crystal Lee Sutton and her legendary “UNION” stand on the workroom table, it earned Sally Field her first Oscar for Best Actress.

When Tom Clancy's bestselling novel "The Hunt for Red October" was adapted for the big screen in 1990, audiences watched a CIA analyst try to prevent World War III while racing against time to figure out a Soviet submarine captain's true intentions. Who is the hero at the center of the Cold War thriller?

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