Nerdy Trivia: May 2, 2025

Looking up at the stars never gets old, even if most of us can barely find the Big Dipper without an app. The James Webb telescope keeps showing us mind-blowing photos of distant galaxies, while down here we're still trying to figure out why our phones lose signal in the elevator. At least the space program gave us memory foam mattresses and cordless vacuums, so we can contemplate the mysteries of the universe in convenient, clean comfort.

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→ What is the name of the first satellite sent into space?
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We've all heard about the galaxies far, far away, but what about the ones close, close by? Our Milky Way is swimming in space with billions of cosmic neighbors, and astronomers have spent millennia trying to map it all out. What's the nearest major galaxy to our own?

Take a swing at some random trivia, when you get the answer, just hit "Random Question" to keep going!

It seems like having a title for your album is kind of a key piece of being a successful musician. And you don’t even have to get fancy to come up with a good album title. The Beatles named one after a road, Joni Mitchell named one after a color, and Green Day named one after… uh, something else.

• David Suchet (1946)
• Larry Gatlin (1948)
• Lou Gramm (1950)
• Christine Baranski (1952)
• Brian Tochi (1959)
• Elizabeth Berridge (1962)
• Mitzi Kapture (1962)
• Mika Brzezinski (1967)
• Dwayne Johnson (1972)
• Jenna von Oÿ (1977)
• Kumail Nanjiani (1978)
• Ellie Kemper (1980)
• Lily Allen (1985)
• Kay Panabaker (1990)