#WWII trivia

[nerdby]

My life was much simpler before I knew Godzilla was a metaphor for the atomic bomb.

#random thoughts #horror genre #horror movies #monster movies #creature feature #kaiju #godzilla #classic horror #classic cinema #tv and movies #tv and streaming #horror nerd #vintage horror #wwii #global history #japan #pop culture history #pop culture trivia #sad but true #im very sad now #nerd problems

[enderbot-magic]

#enderbot posts #click #tpoh #the property of hate #he’s been possessed by wwii trivia

[weeklywisdom3]

WWII and Geography trivia!

I made WWII and geography-themed trivia which can be found down below. Follow if interested in a second geography quiz that I will be posting about upon completion.

#history #wwii germany #world war 2 #ww2 #world war two #geography #trivia

[filosofablogger]

♫ Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town ♫

I first played this one back in March 2020 as part of my ‘tribute week’ after the death of Kenny Rogers at age 81.  For some reason, I’ve had both Bill Withers and Kenny Rogers on my mind most of the day … interesting, for Rogers died in March 2020 and Withers in April 2020.  Hmmmmm … 🤔 As part of this week-long tribute to Kenny Rogers, one of my all-time favourites, each night I plan to include…

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#Kenny Rogers #Korean War #Mel Tillis #music trivia #The First Edition #WWII

[punkitt-is-here]

Oh cool, do I get to apply my weirdly specific intersection of Being A Furry Kink Artist and World War Two Trivia? Rare one!

Rhoald Dahl did indeed write a lotta kids’ books that undoubtedly inspired if not created a lot of the kinks we know of today (this is the dude who wrote books about medicine that turns people into giants, and witches turning kids into mice, he is responsible for a LOT of awakenings, I imagine,) but dis you know he was also a fighter pilot in WWII who later became a VERY promiscuous spy? The dude fought nazis over Athens then fucked around a fair bit of the English socialite scene before settling down to write books for kids, some sources claim he HATED kids too! Seriously, if you ever wanna go for a ride, read his autobiography, it’s WILD

Posting without any real comments cuz this is fucking CRAZY

#feybeasts #thank you for this insight...fascinating #my posts #asks

[gozuforce]

I wish I had witnessed the technical difficulties in their "citation needed" or "two of these people are lying" days. Allthough I really enjoy what they are doing now, it's on a different more laid back level than those two chaotic series.

I really recommend it to anyone curious about humoristic trivia games. Tom Scott is a pretty good host, both in leading contestants and on his own, but matt grey, chris joel and especially gary brannan are simply too good at derailling any conversation.

highlights include:

the prizes at the end of most episodes of "citation needed" being crazy convoluted wordplays and alliterations

fish tank and people tank

a goose and a train

the chocolate war

a pope infestation

"and the wheel lands on... france"

tom scott awarding points for someone simply paraphrasing what he just said

Gary occasionnal throwing some of the wildest sounds a man can produce with his mouth

the tale of Henricus, the drunkard gaul prophet who came to rome

that time matt stated "I'm telling you, that's not mine" and Tom still went and picked his proposition

gary trapped in an endless giggle fit.

multiple instances of tom crossing off gary's proposition immediately, and being wrong half the time.

"so you think they just transported a flipping corpse to the house of Commons?"

Juan Pujol and Jack Churchill both being grandiose WWII mad lads in their own ways

the whole "hagia Sophia" debacle, from Tom being mocked by the commenters for not knowing it, to the terrible description which almost made me think I was mistaken, to the final twist ending

that one time one of the liers was accidentally closer to the truth than the one who was supposed to have picked the article

Tom being certain an airoport he actually went to didn't exist

Gary being a massive "old timey official documents" nerd, but also the man with the grossest jokes of the crew

on that point, "♪ have you ever seen your granny [...]"

hugging a penguin

"are you done?"

#tom scott #the technical difficulties #matt gray #gary brannan #citation needed #two of these people are lying

[howtoditchyourdragon]

Random Wiki Trivia pt.2 (S2)

I’m back babyyyy - my last post of this got a weirdly large number of likes so here’s season 2, I guess. My streak of finding random historical references in rtte continues apparently:

Returning for the random US history references is this: Astrid’s speech to the auxiliary riders in Team Astrid (2x1) is almost word for word of the Rifleman’s Creed, a WWII speech given my General William H. Rupertus of the U.S. Marine Corps so I guess the streak of US history related facts continue

The Twins hug each other for the first time ever on screen in the whole franchise in Bad Moon Rising (2x4)

In real life both Tuff and Snotlout would have died because of the events of Bad Moon Rising - Tuff from the wolf bite and Snotlout from his several bites one of which was a sea snake which are apparently VERY venomous and almost impossible to cure

Ruffnut’s middle name is Eugene

There are several references to classic movies in this season: the first is the ropes being soaked in nightmare gel in Edge of Disaster (2x9) while the Hunters are climbing up them is a reference to Home Alone when Kevin does this with kerosene

In the same episode Tuff says the line "We've been expecting you” while petting Chicken which is a direct copy of a scene and line in James Bond

In A Time to Skrill Hiccup (2x11) mentions the Dragon Hunters have a new net launcher which are exactly the same design as the one Eret uses in httyd2

#who took US history in the rtte writers team bc it apparently had a real chokehold on them #also fun fact I learnt from researching this - sea snakes are primarily found in Australia so idk how it got to the Scottish archipelago #I’m also Australian so that’s… fun for me #guess who unlocked a new fear when she goes swimming this summer #rtte #httyd #race to the edge #race to the edge s2

[spurgie-cousin]

I totally get not wanting to talk to people about your interest in vikings because I'm about to stop telling people I have a bachelor's in history because I cannot stand to have one more person tell me about how much they looove wwii

LOL I feel that, or the Civil War oh my god 😑 And the annoying this is that I'm not uninterested in either of those time periods but the conversations tend to be both super repetitive and wildly out of pocket at the same time, like they'll hit you with some widely known piece of trivia and the follow it up with the most offensive and incorrect opinion you've ever heard 😭

#things people have actually told me with a straight face: #“the n@zis had some solid foundational beliefs but they just didn't execute them correctly” #“black people have wildly overexaggerated slaverys involvement in the Civil War” #“the innovation that happened during WWII basically made it worth it” #like 👁👄👁

[azraeldigabriel]

I know the wiki info generally isn’t canon (especially now since the show proper dropped), but there are absolutely fascinating pieces of trivia in them that I’ve been devouring. Here are some of my personal favorites:

-Angel was drafted in WWII

-Vox has eaten McDonald’s before and holds it as a win over Alastor, who never has (and doesn’t want to, Alastor hates processed food)

-Sir Pentious died of a burst bladder because he refused to go to the restroom whilst meeting Queen Victoria

-Niffty was a maid in Osaka obsessed with her employer

-Husk traveled the world

-Alastor was taught to be self sufficient by his mother, and also used to be an avid deer hunter. He was also homeschooled.

-Cherri Bomb died via suicide bombing, as instructed by her father

-Vox was a televangelist when alive, he was also crushed by a Jumbotron

#hazbin hotel #I just love lore trivia like this #even if it isn’t canon

[piratewithvigor]

Why We're Tired Of Roman Reigns Winning All The Time: A Presentation

As Michael Cole will remind us with the glee of a thousand dads touting WWII trivia, Roman Reigns is now in the middle of the 4th longest title run in WWE/WWF/WWWF history. And yet we all want to claw our own faces off every time we see him win. Why are we so sick to death of him winning when two others won for far longer?

*note, I only went up to day 1500 of Sammartino's reign cause it impeded legibility beyond that

Look at this chart. Roman hasn't been winning longest, nor more frequently than anyone else. He's even keeping up with the "1 Defence Every 30 Days" stipulation. But we're all so much more tired of him.

The answer is because this is not the 80s. This is not the 70s. This is not the 60s. Even if all you watch every week is the main brand shows, it's 5 hours of WWE every single week. If you include NXT, we get up to 7 hours over 3 events. That was not the case in days of yore.

For Bruno Sammartino's first run, the WWWF put on 77 shows in total in the time I counted (the first 1500 days of his reign).

Bruno's second run had 43 shows.

Pedro Morales had 32 shows.

Hulk Hogan, the first of this bunch to hold a belt during the era of PPVs and weekly shows, had 255 shows.

Since Roman got the belt, there have been 853 shows (as of this writing, Nov 6, before Raw)

Or let's give this another ratio to make it fair.

If Roman defended his belt as often as Hogan, he'd have ~214 defenses under his belt.

~552 times if it was as often as Sammartino's 1st run

~793 times if it was as often as Sammartino's 2nd run

And a full 802 times if it was as often as Pedro Morales (who only sat out of 2 shows his whole run)

Or vice versa

If Hogan defended 18 times

If Sammartino defended 5 times

or 3 times the second run

If Morales defended twice

We're seeing so much more wrestling and so few defenses. If Roman had a near equivalent amount of shows to defend on (approximately once a month), he would have taken over 5 years to defend 62 times he currently has.

Now I'm not faulting him for wrestling as often as someone who did pre-moon landing (it's a rough sport and he's been at this a while, it takes a toll on anyone). I'm faulting those in charge who have over 7 times as many hours per month of wrestling content and think we won't get frustrated when a champ wrestles and retains as long as someone did 60 years ago.

#i went mythbusters mode sorry #WWE #all this to say stop comparing him to these folks who wrestled when we get more content in a month than they did in a year #and sorry if you like Roman I've just been going through it

[dailylooneys]

Happy 80th Birthday to Private Snafu!

Snafu.......Situation Normal All........All Fouled Up!

A series of World War 2-themed animated short films screened for young military men. They were mainly instructional, educational films, but still contained that same irreverent, slapstick comedy style of humor of the Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies, thanks to the contributions of the boys of Termite Terrace: Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng and Frank Tashlin, and voice legend Mel Blanc.

The intention these cartoons had on the military audiences was that, the titular character, Private Snafu was an incompetent soldier that was meant to illustrate, in more straightforward way, what NOT to do (true to his name that is), with practically each short ending with Snafu getting blown.

Imagine how different it could've been if Disney had done these instead of Warner Bros., as that was the United States Army’s first choice. But that didn't happen as Leon Schlesinger would bid lower than Disney.

These shorts, of course, generally remained obscure in the minds of the mainstream audiences (until recently that is) as they never were intended to be shown in public theaters. As Martha Sigall, a staff of the ink-and-paint department at Leon Schlesinger Studios, stated these Private Snafu cartoons were top secret. They wore ID badges, did fingerprints, got FBI approval and were given ten cels rather than the usual thirty cels, to prevent them from knowing about the stories.

Therefore, it was never made for a general audiences of kids and adults as the publicly released Looney Tunes shorts were, especially considering it’s content; mild swearing (i.e., damn, hell) and fanservice displayed all over these cartoons that couldn't have been possible in the days of the Hays Code (it's especially surprising to note that Ted Geisel, AKA Dr. Seuss, of all people, was the main writer for THESE!!! Wowie!!!!). 

Fun fact: (one of the shorts titled “Censored” was shown on Cartoon Network’s trivia show Toonheads late at night with half of the scene featuring a topless Sally Lou cut out!)

And, naturally, because this was a WWII-themed series, featured a good deal of derogatory depictions/imagery of Japanese/Germans and Nazis (which will not be shown here).

It's interesting to see not only how strongly connected Private Snafu is to the Looney Tunes, considering, not only the same style of humor, but the two cameo appearances of Bugs Bunny (Gas and Three Brothers), which could make Snafu himself a Looney Tune. 

This is especially considering his early bird cameo in Chuck Jones’s The Draft Horse.

Later on, Private Snafu would not only be done by Warner Bros., but also by it’s competitors, like MGM, UPA, Harman-Ising and Disney. 

Two shorts were left unproduced. One of them was originally going to be directed by none other Tex Avery at MGM. Too bad that didn’t happen!! 

Though the Private Snafu series maybe a time capsule of World War 2, as oppose to being as timeless as the classic Looney Tunes cartoons are, they still serve as a fascinating historical art, a look at what our world was going through, and still included a lot of the trademark style of humor seen in the Warner Bros. cartoons that still kept it entertaining enough.

#private snafu #snafu #world war 2 #world war ii #wwii #warner bros. #birthdays #looney tunes #merrie melodies #the draft horse #chuck jones #Leon Schlesinger #martha sigall #Jerry Beck #birthday #bugs bunny #Dr. Seuss #content warning: racism #cw: racism #trigger warning #disney #harman and ising #upa #mgm #metro goldwyn mayer #cw: nudity #content warning: nudity

[just-jordie-things]

Okay hear me out.

I know I'm a sucker for Choso not knowing shit and having to learn stuff. Because I am delulu and it's cute.

BUT at the same time I cannot get it out of my head that Choso with his 150 years of age is bound to have a lot of knowledge acquired. And let me tell you, he's also very interested in learning new things. He might seem boring to other people but he loves reading up on stuff, so now with all this technology he's constantly reading up on things he used to know. All you hear from him will be "They proved this one thing wrong that I thought was right" and it's some theory that was established 120 years ago but been debunked in the 50's

Knowledge is sexy. 'nuff said BUT I WILL ELABORATE MORE

So in terms of living among humans and technology he might not be the most well versed being (for now) but he's smart, intelligent and knows a lot. Just imagine you're out somewhere, like a zoo, and you look at some animals and he just says something like "Did you know about 100 years ago the first article about dogs and cats being colourblind was published? But it's actually not quite correct. Dogs and cats have much better color vision than we thought."

LIKE YES???

HIT ME WITH ALL THE KNOWLEDGE!!

GIVE. IT. TO. ME.

~ Nanami Flowershop Anon

YES I LOVE THAT

i love the idea of you seeing this side of him after thinking he wasn't all that acquainted with the modern world (still thinkin about that brainrot u sent of him openly complimenting you) not to say you think he's dumb or anything, but you're well aware he's straight up from a different time- a long time ago- so you don't expect him to start spouting off facts like a tour guide

but i love nerdy choso sm!!! he loves to look up new things and teach himself all sorts of random stuff!! i think he'd definitely take a special interest in animals, but probably history as well, seeing as he missed so much of it. he's surprisingly a great partner at trivia night??

(he didn't know who britney spears was but he DOES know every tidbit there is to know about WWII- like true Dad Energy lmfao)

i'm geeking over choso this mornin my god

#choso brainrot #nanami flowershop anon #jordie says stuff

[oneinathousand]

After watching the wonderfully insightful documentary about the making of Goncharov that was included with the 4K Blu-Ray restoration called “Time’s Running Out for Winter”, I wanted to include some of my favorite behind-the-scenes trivia which had either been obscure or never discussed before until now:

Brad Dourif originally had a small part as Misha, Katya’s orphaned nephew who was dying of tuberculosis, in what would have been his first movie role. However, during the film’s editing process, it was determined that the subplot didn’t contribute enough to the story overall, so it was cut, and even now the footage remains lost. It’s a shame, because from how the actors described it, I bet it would’ve deepened Katya’s character even more and give her even more motivation for why she does what she does. Plus, I’m sure Brad would’ve been so cute in the role!

During the scene where Ice Pick Joe loses his temper and stabs Giorgio the Fruit Vendor (whose actor was a real fruit vendor that Scorsese decided to cast because of his striking appearance), John Cazale was supposed to stab the actor on a pad hidden beneath his apron. Unfortunately, Cazale slipped and accidentally stabbed him in the right shoulder, which they ended up using in the final movie because it looked much better than the fake blood they planned on using. Cazale almost immediately broke character to apologize (which is why there’s that quick cut after the stabbing) and paid for the actor’s medical expenses. Giorgio’s actor understandably did not return to the set, choosing to go uncredited, and so a body double was used in the shot where Ice Pick Joe runs away.

Harvey Keitel was supposed to use an Italian accent, but it was quickly determined that it “was fucking terrible” (De Niro’s words, not mine), so he just used his normal New York accent.

Gene Hackman complained to Scorsese that he felt Valery’s character was too boring, and he wanted to include a backstory about Valery killing Nazis with his bare hands during WWII. Scorsese threatened to fire him if he didn’t stop whining, but Hackman was appeased by Francis Ford Coppola, who visited the set for a few days and promised to cast him as the lead in his upcoming film, The Conversation.

Al Pacino ate so much chicken between takes that he was given the nickname “Al Pa-chicken” by the crew, which he was so embarrassed by that he donated his fee to a chicken sanctuary.

#unreality #goncharov #okay that’s all for today here about goncharov I swear #this will be my contribution #that last one might have actually happened during one of pacino’s movies

[emeraldcityminerals]

Gemmy orange spessartine (Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3) on white albite (Na(AlSi3O8)). From Little Three Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA. Dimensions: 6 cm x 5 cm x 4 cm. Probably dates to the 1970s.  Spessartine from the Little Three Mine combines sharpness, color, and luster to be some of the best in the world.  

Best trivia about the mine:

In 1905, a 150 lb topaz-elbaite specimen was recovered from the main dike.  The spectacular specimen was on display at the San Diego Chamber of Commerce for years until it was moved to the new Natural History Museum. During WWII the US Navy took over the museum and crated up the displays. The specimen has not been seen since and it is suspected that it was dumped into the ocean. If you find it, it’s worth a lot.

Source: Mindat.org

#little three mine #Spessartine #gem #orange #albite #ramona #San Diego #mineral #rock #pegmatite #garnet #mineral collection #geology #science #nature photography

[burningexeter]

[PITCH]

The Nightmare Chronicles

What is it —

An animated horror anthology series that is as incredibly dark, twisted, macabre, sinister and horrific as can be. Top it off, it will actually be scary, disturbing and straight-up horror whenever it wants to be which will be all the time.

EPISODE IDEAS:

The Girl With Nine Lives — a shy, timid and socially awkward teen girl is tricked into having the nine lives of a cat by a mad witch and becomes a carnival sideshow sensation as the 'Girl Who Can't Die'. As her success becomes more and more grand however, her life falls apart as she becomes an egotistical, vain, self-centered, spoiled rich princess who alienates and pushes away all of her friends and family. It's then until her last act where her closest friend finally walks away wanting nothing to do with her and her mother, heartbroken, leaves her daughter to be by herself, that she realizes all too late that she may have miscounted how many lives she actually has.

Fleshhouse — a struggling blue collar married couple own a just as struggling restaurant that's about to be closed down by their landlord and want what's nothing but the best for their kids (one of whom is disabled). It's then that a longtime and close but strange partner/friend of theirs offers the answer to their solutions that could save their restaurant - a secret recipe and a special supply of steak with such a delectable taste to it and one that harbors a horrifying and dark secret.

The Fogs Of War — Set in 1916 during WWII, several lost squads of soldiers converge and must hide out in a mysterious and abandoned maze-like series of trenches and tunnels that they discover far too late and rather horrifyingly so that the entire place is a gateway to hell that has opened by accident due to the war on earth. Now the soldiers all must fight for their lives and through the night from demons - each of whom represents their deepest, darkest and most personal fears - from dragging them into hell itself for their sins.

Something Wicked On The Runway Shoot — The mother of an aspiring model takes her daughter to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in Los Angeles for a potential membership and mentor under the hugely successful and gorgeous but mysterious and camera-shy Ruth Rose. Therefore, it's revealed that the mother was once an up-and-coming model on her way to fame until she turned it down to start a family with her child.... and it's also revealed the true, dark, grotesque, siamese secret of Ruth Rose.

Fat Tuesday — a man still-in grieving from the tragic death of his wife, moves himself and his three kids to New Orleans as a chance to start over and begin a new life after her death affected every one of them. However in trying to start anew, they all find themselves entangled in a bizarre voodoo ritual that includes their own family history with the man's own father and deceased wife stuck between two worlds as horrifying zombies emerge from the deep and thick swamp with cravings for flesh.

NOTES/TRIVIA/DETAILS:

• With the animation style, I picture it being a good, strong cross between Laura Hollingsworth's art for Keeper Of The Lost Cities, Tony Moore's art for the first six issues of The Walking Dead and Charlie Adlard's art for the entirety of The Walking Dead. It would fit in perfectly with the stories I'm trying to tell with this here.

• All of the stories will have plenty of things in common with each other despite being very different one from the other. Not only are they all just as dark, twisted, mean, cynical, horrific and surprisingly genuinely heartfelt at times but they're also very character driven. All of the events that happen happen because of the character or characters' actions, it's not something weird or fucked up happening to someone randomly. It's always that the characters did something that caused this event to happen to them and of course, there are repercussions so they have absolutely no one to blame but themselves since they caused this to happen to them and them only.

• Another things is that with some definite exceptions here and there, basically sprinkled in every now and then, almost all of the stories or episodes will have bad endings but in unconventional ways. What I mean by that is that there's always a real, true, genuine moment of victory where the character or characters defeat the wendigo or break the demented curse or seal the sandman whose been harvesting childrens' souls away so he can never harm anyone ever again....

But then there's always that extra thing that immediately happens after that goes "Nope!" which ends with an equally effective, memorable and haunting final image to end on.

• The sprinkled in happy endings however are the ones that feel the most earned where the character or characters realize the errors of their ways and come out as better people so the happy ending feels both warranted and deserving.

However, all of that somehow has got nothing on this right here —

• When an episode or "story" ends, it dissolves into a campfire to be revealed that the episode was in fact a campfire tale all along told by either a cynically dry yet charismatic at the same time magician named Nicolas Channing (voiced by and directly modeled after Ryan Beil) or a character from a piece of media such as Demona, Zhalia Moon, Mikasa Ackerman, M.O.M., Badger, Ratboy etc.

#horror #animation #anthology #semi-crossover

[astrabear]

Trick or treat, Astra! 🎃🪣🧙‍♀️

Happy Halloween!

To you, I give a handful of fun-size treats i.e. bits of behind-the-scenes trivia for a few of my fics:

In My labor and my leisure too, where Joe and Nicky lose their immortality, Nile notices what she first thinks is dirt and then realizes are bruises on Nicky's arm and Joe's knuckles. The fic does not reveal where those bruises came from, but when I wrote it I imagined that Nicky's was sex-related and Joe's came from punching the wall when he saw that Nicky wasn't healing.

The house where they're staying in the last chapter of The Bronze Age is a real house in Debrecen, Hungary. It's also the setting of my wip, where it gets a lot more description. @flawlessassholes recommended looking up real estate listings as a way of adding verisimilitude to fics, so I did and I found a house I absolutely love.

In Hay más tiempo que vida (There is more time than life), Andy saves the life of a fellow soldier during the Mexican Revolution. I never wrote out what happened to the woman after the war, but I like to think that she got married and moved to the US, and had a son who served in Europe in WWII and then settled in France, and long story short Celeste is her great-great-granddaughter.

#ask game #my fic #the old guard fanfiction