Nerdy Trivia: November 13, 2024

Watch out - there's an outbreak of niceness happening! People are holding doors with reckless abandon and compliments are spreading faster than gossip. Warning: kindness can be highly contagious. Spread at your own risk!

Someone once convinced millions of Americans to buy a rock in a box. Not a magic rock. Not a rare rock. Just a regular rock, nestled in wood shavings, with a straight-faced instruction manual for "training" it. The joke worked precisely because it wasn't trying to be anything else. But when did this gloriously stupid idea hit stores?

• Joe Mantegna (1947)
• Chris Noth (1954)
• Whoopi Goldberg (1955)
• Jimmy Kimmel (1967)
• Gerard Butler (1969)
• Monique Coleman (1980)