September 7

1908

Football coach Paul Brown is born in Norwalk, Ohio. He eventually became the head coach for a team in Cleveland, which was dubbed the Browns in his honor.

Bring Me My Brown Jersey

When given the last name of one of the 40 (and counting) quarterbacks the Browns have started since 1999, can you supply their first name?

Brownie Points

  1. Mayfield
  2. Couch
  3. Manziel
  4. Winston
  5. Flacco

Brownout

  1. Anderson
  2. Weeden
  3. Kizer
  4. Quinn
  5. Hoyer

Brown Your Pants

  1. Holcomb
  2. Kessler
  3. Wallace
  4. Keenum
  5. Dorsey

Brownie Points

  1. Baker
  2. Tim
  3. Johnny
  4. Jameis
  5. Joe

Brownout

  1. Derek
  2. Brandon
  3. DeShone
  4. Brady
  5. Brian

Brown Your Pants

  1. Kelly
  2. Cody
  3. Seneca
  4. Case
  5. Ken

1921

The first Miss America contest is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The winner was Miss Washington DC, Margaret Gorman.

Swing and a Miss

Hopefully, you won't miss any questions here!

  1. How many times during his 23-year career did Tom Brady's team miss the playoffs?
  2. Will Arnett voiced The Missing Link in what 2009 DreamWorks movie?
  3. OutKast has a song called "Ms. Jackson", but which band's fourth album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, has a song called "Miss Jackson"?
  4. What combination of race and sex lent its name to a media bias surrounding missing persons cases?
  5. Who provides the voice of Miss Piggy, and also Yoda?
  6. MissingNo. is an unofficial species of what type of video game creature?
  7. Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge both sing on what band's song "I Miss You"?
  8. In 1931, stunt pilot Charles W. Holman was the first person memorialized through what?
  1. 3 (2000, 2002, and 2008)
  2. Monsters vs. Aliens
  3. Panic! at the Disco
  4. White women (Missing White Woman Syndrome)
  5. Frank Oz
  6. Pokémon
  7. blink-182
  8. A missing man formation

1936

The last Tasmanian tiger dies in its cage at the Hobart Zoo.

All Gone

A quiz about other things that no longer exist

  1. In what state could you seen The Old Man of the Mountain rock formation before its collapse in 2003?
  2. What NHL team became the last Big 4 sports team to completely fold in 1978?
  3. Bonn was the capital of what country from 1949 to 1990?
  4. How many of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World were destroyed by earthquakes?
  5. What airline that went defunct in 1991 brought the Beatles to America?
  6. What web browser was replaced by Microsoft Edge in 2022?
  1. New Hampshire
  2. The Cleveland Barons
  3. West Germany
  4. 3 (The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria)
  5. Pan America World Airways (Pan Am)
  6. Internet Explorer
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