January 7

1610

Galileo Galilei first observes Jupiter's four largest moons, now dubbed the Galilean moons.

You Just Got Mooned!

You'll be over the moon with these moon questions!

  1. How many teams did Warren Moon play for over his professional football career?
  2. What’s the real name of the religious group informally known as the Moonies?
  3. What substance is made by exposing silica to trimethylsilanol vapors?
  4. How do ‘90s kids better know Usagi Tsukino?
  5. How many people walked on the moon as part of the Apollo program?
  1. 5 (in reverse chronological order, they're the Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, Minnesota Vikings, Houston Oilers… and the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL!)
  2. The Unification Church
  3. Moon Sand
  4. Sailor Moon
  5. 12

1964

Actor Nicolas Cage is born.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Nicolas Cage isn't really known for a single role, but that makes him great for a quiz!

Cage Classics

  1. Ben Gates
  2. Memphis Raines
  3. Grug Crood
  4. Spider-Man Noir

You Don't Say?

  1. Johnny Blaze
  2. Edward Malus
  3. Castor Troy
  4. Seth

NOT THE BEES!

  1. Dracula
  2. Speckles
  3. Zoc
  4. Superman

Cage Classics

  1. National Treasure
  2. Gone in 60 Seconds
  3. The Croods
  4. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

You Don't Say?

  1. Ghost Rider
  2. The Wicker Man
  3. Face/Off
  4. City of Angels

NOT THE BEES!

  1. Renfield
  2. G-Force
  3. The Ant Bully
  4. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

2011

The King's Speech hits theaters.

Speech Impediment

What word is missing from these famous speeches? (And what speeches are they?)

  1. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their _________.
  2. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never _________.
  3. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new ______, conceived in liberty
  4. Yet today I consider myself the ________ man on the face of the earth.
  5. We will not go quietly into the night, we will not ______ without a fight. We're going to live on, we're going to survive.
  1. character (I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.)
  2. surrender (We Shall Fight On The Beaches by Winston Churchill)
  3. nation (Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln)
  4. luckiest (Farewell to Baseball by Lou Gehrig)
  5. vanish (Independence Day by Thomas J. Whitmore)
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