Do Go On Topic Poll (BLOCK Edition)
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Pick your favourite topics from this long list to help us pick which topics we're going to do for block! You can pick as many as you like!
These topics have made the short list by being our most suggested topics or voted in by our patreon supporters...
Cheers!
Jess, Dave and Matt
ABBA (Swedish pop phenomenon)
Godzilla (iconic movie monster/Kaiju)
Dr Who (long running British sci-fi TV show)
Stephen King (Horror Writer)
The Stonewall Riots/Uprising (important LGBTIQ event)
Munich Olympic massacre (terrorist attack)
Judy Garland (famous actor/singer)
Iraq at the 2007 Asia Football Cup (underdog sporting story)
Cicada 3301 (internet mystery)
David Hahn - Radioactive Boy Scout
Jan Lewan (The Polka King and fraudster)
The Chinese Cultural Revolution
Blockbuster Video (defunct video/dvd rental business)
Pablo Escobar (Colombian Drug Lord)
Pancho Villa (real life Mexican robin hood)
Pokémon (video game/pop culture phenomenon)
The Night Witches (WWII soviet badasses)
Skinwalker Ranch (paranormal site)
Teddy Roosevelt (American president)
Terry Fox (A Canadian hero)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition (US explorers)
The Mary Celeste (ghost ship mystery)
The Tunguska Event (a Russian mystery)
Kony 2012 (documentary/movement)
The Rolling Stones (famous band)
Frank Sinatra (famous singer)
Dr Frederick Cook vs Robert Peary in the race to the North Pole
Charles Darwin (famous scientist)
The Year 1966
Weird Al Yankovic (comedian/musician)
Noor Inayat Khan (WWII badass)
The Murder of Helle Crafts
The Great James Randi (magician/skeptic)
Juan Pujol Garcia (WWII double agent)
Led Zeppelin (famous band)
Woodstock 99 (infamous festival)
The French Revolution
Norwegian Black Metal (controversial music genre)
Robert Smalls (freed slave/politician)
The Beast of Gévaudan (cryptid)
The Ghost Army (WWII operation)
The Gary Demon House (haunted house)
The Invention of Television
Jeanne Pouchain (a woman took three years to prove she isn't dead)
Stonehenge (prehistoric rock monument)
Wars of the Roses (series of civil wars in Britain)
The Clydach Murders (3 generations murdered, police cover ups and false accusations)
The Great Library of Alexandria
Bill Murray (Comedy Actor)
History of Banana Republics
Indian independence from the British
X-Men Movie Series (Recap in style of Fast and Furious or Mission: Impossible)
Selena Quintanilla (celebrated Mexican-American Entertainer)
The Death and Dissapearance of Elisa Lam
History of Halloween
Tonya Harding and Nancy Carrigan (infamous sporting event)
History of Porn Hub
The National Park Service (American department)
The Great Wall of China
The Chicxulub asteroid (cause of dinosaur extinction)
The American Revolution
Order of the Solar Temple (fascinating cult)
Mata Hari (WWI spy)
The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship
Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia)
Nicholas Cage (famous actor)
The Real Von Trapp family (Who the Sound of Music was based on)
Julie D'Aubigny (17th-century swordswoman and opera singer)
Operation Paperclip (secret USA intelligence program)
Ragnar Lothbrok (Viking king)
Ernest Hemingway (famous author)
Ayrton Senna (race driver who died in accident)
The Eruption of Mt Vesuvius (the end of Pompeii)
Agent ZigZag (WWII spy)
Dick Van Dyke (famous actor)
History of Ska music
Spongebob Squarepants (popular cartoon)
Andy Kaufman (iconic comic)
ACDC (Iconic Aussie Rock Band)
Colonel Sanders (KFC man)
Pink Floyd (famous band)
The Twilight Saga
Mel Brooks (Comedy legend)
John C. Woods (Man who executed nazis)
The Great Earthquake of 1923 in Japan
Pixar (famous animation studio)
Come From Away (The true story behind the musical)
United Airlines 232, the impossible landing
The Deadly 1927 Dole Air Race
Desmond Doss (WWII badass)
Olga of Kiev (Saint and Grand Princess of Kiev)
The London Bridge in America (Tycoon bought the bridge and moved it brick-by-brick to the American desert)
British Royal Conspiracies
Jackie Chan (famous actor)
Shinkansen bullet train (Revolutionary technology)
The Salisbury Poisonings (Russian double agent poisoned?)
St.Kilda Football Club and the 1966 Flag (Australian Football team who won a premiership in 1966)
Apollo 13 (Failed Moon Landing Mission)
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Wall Street Crash of 1929
Genghis Khan (great conqueror)
The Marx Brothers (famous comedians)
Tylenol murders (Chicago 1980s poinsonings)
The Monday Night Wars (Wrestling's WCW Nitro vs WWF)
Whacka For Cloaca (episode about cloacas with ATB)
Kobe Bryant (NBA legend)
Charles Bronson (violent English prisoner)
The Voynich Manuscript (Mysterious coded manuscript from 15th century)
Prince (the Artist Formerly Known As)
Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Brazillian serial killer of serial killers)
Alexander Hamilton (a founding father of USA)
Nazinsky serbian Island (Stalin Prison Camp)
Keanu Reeves (famous actor)
Billy the Kid (Wild West cowboy)
Gorillaz (cartoon band)
Prohibition Era in the USA
Leonardo da Vinci (scientist, artist, engineer, architect)
The History of Cussing/Swearing
Aimo Koivunen (WW2 meth soldier)
The Cuban Missile Crisis (Tense Military standoff)
Wu-Tang Clan (influential hip hop group)
When Charles Dickens was visited by Hans Christian Anderson
Jesse Owens (Olympic legend)
John Delorean and his dream car (the Delorean)
The Miracle on Ice (famous ice hockey match)
Oktoberfest (the origin and history of famous German festival)
Mary Queen of Scots
The Gallipoli Campaign (WW1 event)
The USS William D Porter (US Navy ship)
the Sinking of the Kursk (submarine disaster)
Rosa Parks (human rights activist)
The KLF (British band that vanished)
Stephen Hawking (famous scientist)
History of Nintendo/Super Mario Bros (video game empire)
Qin Shi Huang & his massive terracotta army
John Wren (the Beer Barron of Victorian illegal gambling)
Walt Disney (the man who Disney is named after)
Seinfeld (iconic sitcom)
Henrietta Lacks (her cells led to advancement in medicine)
The Hillsborough disaster (British Sporting Tragedy)
Mary Shelley (Frankenstein Author)
John Moses Browning & The Winchester Curse! (gun manufacturer's haunted house)
Hasekura Tsunenaga and the Spanish Samurai (17th century Japanese delegates met the pope)
Anastasia Romanov and her Many Imposters (daughter of Tsar Nicholas II)
Fatty Arbuckle and the Hollywood blacklist (murder trial and aftermath)
Albert Einstein (famous scientist)
Alexander the Great (The Macedonian King)
The Batavia (Australia's Deadliest Shipwreck)
The Battle of Alesia (ancient battle)
The Crusades (Series of Religious Wars)
Josephine Baker (entertainer, spy, civil rights activist)
Al Capone (American Gangster)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film and TV show)
Simo Häyhä “The white death” (WW2 badass)
The Brisbane Soviet: The 1919 Worker's Revolution and Shootout in Brisbane
The Yorkshire Ripper (English Serial Killer)
Beatrix Potter (famous author)
World War II
Spring Heeled Jack (1800s British urban legend/mystery)
Adolf Hitler (WW2 fuckhead)
The Aberfan Disaster (coal mine disaster)
Gunfight at the OK Corral
David Suchet and Poirot
The Bhopal Disaster (industrial disaster)
The Isdal Woman (Norwegian mystery)
Jeffrey Dahmer (famous serial killer)
Dambusters (WW2 air raid)
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana (Legendary Frontman/Band)
Britney Spears and the Free Britney movement
Aleister Crowley AKA The Beast 666 (cult leader)
The Snowtown ‘Bodies in the Barrels’ Murders.
Harvey's Wagon Wheel and Resort Heist
1916 Easter rising (the foundation of modern Ireland)
Queen Victoria (English queen)
Jacques Cousteau (Undersea explorer, inventor, filmmaker)