Nerdy Trivia: May 25, 2026

The geeks and the nerds buried the hatchet decades ago and quietly took over the world. Marvel runs Hollywood, "Stranger Things" put D&D back on the kitchen table, and Comic-Con sells out in eleven minutes. The dorks are still on the outside, where they belong. I had to draw the line somewhere.

"God Only Knows" is the greatest pop song ever written, a ruling Paul McCartney has issued so many times it counts as settled law. Brian Wilson wrote the song and sang the demo, but handed off lead vocals to his little brother, Carl. Which Beach Boys album does "God Only Knows" appear on?

49 years ago TODAY,  32 theaters got the first look at the greatest space epic ever told when "Star Wars" began its limited release in 1977!

From the second that a Star Destroyer the size of a city rolled overhead, audiences knew they were watching something nobody had ever attempted. A farm kid from Tatooine, a smuggler with a Wookiee, and an old Jedi crashed into a Rebellion war and went head-to-head with a moon-sized superweapon. Lightsabers hummed onto screens for the first time and the Force walked straight into the language of genre movies. No villain entrance since has touched Vader stepping through that smoky Tantive IV doorway.

What was the Skywalker family name originally going to be?

One does not simply walk into Mordor, mainly because it's an absurdly long walk. Frodo and Sam spent six months trekking across Middle-earth to destroy the One Ring (and no, we're not going to talk about why the eagles couldn't just fly them there). J.R.R. Tolkien was so meticulous about his worldbuilding that scholars have been able to roughly calculate the mileage from Bag End to Mount Doom. How many miles is it from the Shire to Mordor?

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