January 3

1848

Joseph Jenkins Roberts, born a free man in Norfolk, Virginia, is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.

FREEDOM!

You can take this quiz for free!

  1. To the nearest minute, how long is Lynyrd Skynyrd's song Free Bird?
  2. Who played a prisoner in Attica, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Invictus, and The Shawshank Redemption?
  3. Leopold II, who gave Africa the horror that was the Congo Free State, was king of what country?
  4. Which former slave state is ironically nicknamed "The Free State?"
  5. What do you eat to stop free radicals from harming you?
  6. The song Pressure Point by Duncan Lamont was used as an example of free-form jazz in an episode of what cartoon?
  1. 9 minutes (9:07, to be exact)
  2. Morgan Freeman
  3. Belgium
  4. Maryland
  5. Antioxidants
  6. SpongeBob SquarePants

1977

Apple is founded in Cupertino, California.

iCan'tEven

Remember, just because a word starts with a long I sound doesn't mean it's an Apple product!

  1. What country is the folk group Of Monsters and Men from?
  2. What element is added to salt to prevent thyroid disease?
  3. What is the only US state whose eastern and western borders are both rivers?
  4. What Biblical prophet had a burning coal touched to his lips by an angel?
  5. If a triangle has sides of length 7, 7, and 9, what kind of triangle is it?
  6. What peninsula do Portugal and Spain lie on?
  7. What animal product is the traditional gift for a 14th wedding anniversary?
  8. What scientist did Weird Al Yankovic portray in Epic Rap Battles of History?
  1. iCeland
  2. iOdine
  3. iOwa
  4. iSaiah
  5. iSosceles
  6. iBerian
  7. iVory
  8. iSaacNewton

2009

The first Bitcoin is mined by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the cryptocurrency.

If That Is Your Real Name

I hope you know how these people are better known.

  1. Norma Jeane Mortensen
  2. Malcolm Little
  3. Ramon Estevez
  4. Richard Starkey
  5. Reginald Kenneth Dwight
  6. Marion Morrison
  7. Karol Wojtyla
  8. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
  9. Maurice Micklewhite
  10. Caryn Johnson
  1. Marilyn Monroe
  2. Malcolm X
  3. Martin Sheen
  4. Ringo Starr
  5. Elton John
  6. John Wayne
  7. Pope John Paul II
  8. Lewis Carroll
  9. Michael Caine
  10. Whoopi Goldberg
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