Nerdy Trivia: May 4, 2026

Yoda, think they can be, everyone does. Don't even try to imitate the Jedi Master. You're gonna sound like a sentence run through Google Translate three times and back to English, not a 900-year-old creature who spent every one of those years learning to control the Force.

What planet was Yoda hiding on?

Chewbacca had plenty to say in the original trilogy, but none of it came out in English. The actor inside the suit still sold comedic double-takes, a grief howl when Han got frozen in carbonite, and a thousand "I told you so" looks. Which actor played Chewbacca in the original "Star Wars" trilogy?

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42 years ago TODAY, John Hughes made his directing debut with the worst 16th birthday in movie history when "Sixteen Candles" hit theaters in 1984!

Molly Ringwald carried the movie as Samantha, swinging between teenage exasperation and a real crush on senior heartthrob Jake Ryan. Anthony Michael Hall stole half his scenes as Ted the Geek, a freshman dweeb working overtime to prove he could land a senior. Hughes wrote the script in a weekend, shot it in his old Chicago suburbs, and slipped both John and Joan Cusack into supporting roles.

Lightsabers used to run on a pretty simple color code. Lucas gave the Jedi blue or green, Sith got red, and later on, Mace Windu got purple because Samuel L. Jackson is just built different. Nowadays, Star Wars treats kyber crystals like a deluxe crayon box. Which lightsaber color still isn't canon?

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