Nerdy Trivia: May 3, 2026

Public radio voices are always calm, slightly amused, and pause for half a second longer than necessary before delivering a follow-up question. My family could never host a public radio show. We talk over each other, can't whisper, and within five minutes one of us would be yelling about our favorite sports team.

Promoter Bill Sargent offered the Beatles tens of millions of dollars to reunite in 1976, and they turned it down. "Saturday Night Live" had nowhere near that kind of budget, but creator Lorne Michaels figured what the hell. From the SNL desk during the show's first season, he held up a real NBC certified check made out to "The Beatles." How much money did Michaels offer the Beatles to reunite on SNL?

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

41 years ago TODAY, the US government sent an Olympic gymnast into a fictional death match to win satellite rights when "Gymkata" was released in 1985!

The tagline promised "the skill of gymnastics, the kill of karate," because, sure, why not? Kurt Thomas played a US gymnast recruited into The Game, a deadly contest in the kingdom of Parmistan, which somehow climaxes with a stone pommel horse conveniently sitting in a village square so Thomas can helicopter-kick a mob of escaped lunatics in the face.

Is there anything more romantic than eating the same noodle of spaghetti as your crush?

Check out more celeb birthdays in today's birthday post!