Nerdy Trivia: May 9, 2026

Nobody actually beats the windmill hole. You spend a full minute crouched at the mat, swear you've cracked the timing, and then the blade catches your ball anyway and sends it rolling back across the green. Luckily, no one makes a joke because they don't want to jinx themselves.

Cheech and Chong were never exactly subtle about their whole schtick. Their 1972 comedy album was packaged as a giant rolling paper. Their blunt humor (see what I did there?) helped them win a Grammy Award for "Los Cochinos" and move 10 million records before Hollywood came calling. What was Cheech & Chong's first feature film?

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46 years ago TODAY, Camp Crystal Lake reopened for one very bad summer when "Friday the 13th" was released in 1980!

Sean S. Cunningham's stripped-down slasher set a crew of fresh-faced counselors loose in the woods for prep week, then started picking them off one by one. Harry Manfredini's whispering "ki ki ki, ma ma ma" score, Tom Savini's gnarly practical effects, and the killer's stalking first-person POV did most of the heavy lifting. Made on a $550,000 budget, it grossed nearly $60 million worldwide and launched one of horror's longest-running franchises.

Who's the killer?

Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a four-minute history lesson disguised as a pop song, cramming 40 years of American chaos into one incredibly catchy tune. He name-drops several commanders-in-chief along the way, but when you're trying to fit four decades of history into a single song, somebody's getting left out. Which of these U.S. presidents who served during Joel's timeline failed to make the cut?

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