29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Wednesday, November 5th

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29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Wednesday, November 5th
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It's Wednesday. Some call it ‘hump day.' We prefer to call it ‘the beginning of the end.' Not the end of everything, that'd be entirely too nihilistic, even for us. No, we mean the beginning of the end of the workweek.

And that means it's time to start thinking about the weekend, that glorious respite we all deserve. So what we've got for you on the trivia side of things this Wednesday might work for you on Saturday, when hopefully you'll be out enjoying yourself in some suitably raging fashion. Having a few conversatin starters or additions is never a bad thing. And that's what's to follow.

If you're staying in, then maybe these spark a movie or TV show to watch. Either way - have a fine Wednesday.

Da Bears

DA BEARS ROB SMIGEL Smigel cooked up the Super Fans from two tasty ingredients: The Sportswriters on TV, a Chicago-based roundtable discussion, and the overweight, mustachioed, Old Style-swigging fans he'd see at Cubs games. Bonus: Sunglasses meant Smigel could easily read cue cards without learning his lines.

Dark River

For Dark River, Ruth Wilson learned to shear sheep, gut rabbits, and castrate lambs. She spent three weeks on a rundown farm, with sheep S**t everywhere to learn those skills. Once shooting ended, she said she didn't want to see sheep ever again. CRACKED.COM

Gibert Gottfried

GILBERT GOTTFRIED was swiftly booted as the voice of the Aflac duck for REPEATEDLY tweeting offensive jokes during Japan's deadly Tohoku earthquake an

Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz

NICOLE KIDMAN LENNY KRAVITZ GRACKED.COM Kidman and Kravitz were secretly together back in 2007, a fact Kidman never revealed until a 2017 Big Little Lies press tour. I knew Zoe because I was engaged to her father. It's all in the family!

Hey Arnold!

'Hey Arnold!' was not set in New York City but in a fictional city called Hillwood, Washington. 3 CRACKED COM Craig Bartlett has stated that the city the show takes place in is some- where in the Pacific North- west, and is an amalgam of three cities that he lived in: Seattle, Brooklyn, and Portland.

South Park

MR. MACKEY m'kay? Mr. Mackey is the school counselor at South Park Elementary, famous for his catchphrase M'kay, which he says at the end of most of his sentences. Turns out, he's based on Trey Parker's counselor, Mr. Lackey, who would really say, M'kay? CRACKED

The Starship Enterprise

CRACKED.COM Walter M. Jefferies was instrumental in the success of Star Trek: Не designed the iconic spaceship, the Starship Enterprise! NCC-17

Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith wicked WISDOM CRACKED.COM She's the frontwoman of a nu-metal band, Wicked Wisdom. They played Ozzfest in 2005, released an album in 2006, and have played shows as recently as 2018. Pinkett Smith says she's received death threats from confused, enraged metalheads.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Wednesday, November 5th

The Dark Knight

The Joker's clown mask in the opening of The Dark Knight is a homage to the 1960s Batman series. His mask looks just like the one Joker wore in his first episode of the show, The Joker is Wild. CRACKED.COM

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera was basically a corpse In the original novel, Erik is described as skeleton thin with basically just human skull for a head ... sunken yellow eyes and no nose. Hardly Gerard Butler in a half-mask. CRACKED.COM

The Godfather

The inspiration for James Caan's character in The Godfather was Don Rickles. Speaking about it, Caan later said: I was thinking of my friend, Don Rickles. I told everybody, you know, and I started laughing like Don Rickles. CRACKED.COM

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29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Wednesday, November 5th

The Dark Knight

29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Wednesday, November 5th

Ernest Hemingway

29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Wednesday, November 5th

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