Nerdy Trivia: May 5, 2026

No, it's not their Fourth of July. It's a celebration of the wildly outnumbered Mexican army embarrassing Napoleon III's troops at Puebla in 1862. It's the kind of thing you'd expect parades and fireworks for, but we'll all be listening to "La Bamba" for the eleventh time tonight while on our third round of $5 margs.

Aretha Franklin had been the Queen of Soul since the '60s, but by the late '70s the hits had stopped coming. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd cast her behind the counter of a Chicago soul food diner in "The Blues Brothers." Which song does Aretha Franklin perform in "The Blues Brothers"?

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31 years ago TODAY, Meg Ryan got stuck on a Paris-bound plane next to Kevin Kline's smooth-talking French crook when "French Kiss" hit theaters in 1995!

Slotting right into the Meg Ryan rom-com wave between "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail," Lawrence Kasdan's opposites-attract romp follows her anxious Canadian Kate as she chases her runaway fiancé to Paris. Kevin Kline's Luc uses her as an unwitting mule for a stolen necklace and a vine cutting, then trails her across the country trying to get them back.

Doc Brown's DeLorean from "Back to the Future" is one of the most iconic cars in cinema history, with its time travel modifications, plutonium power source, and flashy digital readouts. But even with all of that, the car needs to hit a specific speed before any of Doc's time travel science kicks in. How fast does the DeLorean need to travel to punch through the space-time continuum?

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