Do Go On Topic Poll (2023 BLOCK Edition)
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It's coming up to that most wonderful time of the year, BLOCKtober where we cover the biggest/most suggested/most voted for topics!
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
Dr Who (long running British sci-fi TV show)
Spongebob Squarepants (popular cartoon)
Keanu Reeves (famous actor)
Judy Garland (famous actor/singer)
Iraq at the 2007 Asia Football Cup (underdog sporting story)
Aimo Koivunen (WW2 meth soldier)
Al Capone (American Gangster)
Andy Kaufman (iconic comic)
Billy the Kid (Wild West cowboy)
David Hahn - Radioactive Boy Scout
Ernest Hemingway (famous author)
Jan Lewan (The Polka King and fraudster)
Seinfeld (iconic sitcom)
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Blockbuster Video (defunct video/dvd rental business)
History of Ska music
Josephine Baker (entertainer, spy, civil rights activist)
Kobe Bryant (NBA legend)
Pablo Escobar (Colombian Drug Lord)
Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Brazillian serial killer of serial killers)
Skinwalker Ranch (paranormal site)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition (US explorers)
The Tunguska Event (a Russian mystery)
Prince (the Artist Formerly Known As)
History of Nintendo/Super Mario Bros (video game empire)
the Sinking of the Kursk (submarine disaster)
Nazinsky serbian Island (Stalin Prison Camp)
Britney Spears and the Free Britney movement
Agent ZigZag (WWII spy)
The Great Earthquake of 1923 in Japan
Charles Darwin (famous scientist)
The Year 1966
Ragnar Lothbrok (Viking king)
Olga of Kiev (Saint and Grand Princess of Kiev)
Prohibition Era in the USA
Albert Einstein (famous scientist)
The Great James Randi (magician/skeptic)
Jackie Chan (famous actor)
Juan Pujol Garcia (WWII double agent)
Led Zeppelin (famous band)
Operation Paperclip (secret USA intelligence program)
The Battle of Alesia (ancient battle)
Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Gary Demon House (haunted house)
ACDC (Iconic Aussie Rock Band)
British Royal Conspiracies
Bill Murray (Comedy Actor)
The London Bridge in America (Tycoon bought the bridge and moved it brick-by-brick to the American desert)
Indian independence from the British
X-Men Movie Series (Recap in style of Fast and Furious or Mission: Impossible)
United Airlines 232, the impossible landing
Selena Quintanilla (celebrated Mexican-American Entertainer)
The Death and Dissapearance of Elisa Lam
Tonya Harding and Nancy Carrigan (infamous sporting event)
Come From Away (The true story behind the musical)
French Revolution/Marie Antoinette
Margery Kempe (Wrote the first ever autobiography, a medieval travel epic)
Yuba County five (It's America's Dyatlov Pass Incident)
Weed Hornet (Little Known Band)
Cyclone Tracy (a Christmas hurricane/cyclone that wiped out 80% of in Darwin)
Andrew Loyd Webber (weird musical maker)
The Max Headroom Incident (and other strange TV phenomena)
Army Surgeon General James Barry (took secret identity to the grave)
Bill Bryson (non fiction writer)
Yagan the Nyoongar warrior (Indigenous Australian warrior)
Admiral ‘Sea Wolf’ Cochrane (a Scottish Lord)
Steve Ditko (eccentric comic book artist who co-created Spider-Man)
Julian Assange & Wikileaks
Wild stories from Norse mythology
Chris Benoit , From acclaimed WWE wrestler to Double murder suicide
Tom Cruise (hollywood actor)
The Murder of Bruiser Brody
a Triptych of One Hit Wonder Mini Reports
Sailor Moon (popular manga series)
The Thailand Cave Rescue
Bluey (Australian Dog Cartoon)
Terry Fox (A Canadian hero)
Kony 2012 (documentary/movement)
The Miracle on Ice (famous ice hockey match)
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. (con artist/surgeon/prison runner/teacher)
Fatty Arbuckle and the Hollywood blacklist (murder trial and aftermath)
Godzilla (iconic movie monster/Kaiju)
Cicada 3301 (internet mystery)
Oktoberfest (the origin and history of famous German festival)
Jeanne Pouchain (a woman took three years to prove she isn't dead)
Stephen Hawking (famous scientist)
Dambusters (WW2 air raid)
Mary Shelley (Frankenstein Author)
Charles Bronson (violent English prisoner)
ABBA (Swedish pop phenomenon)
The Aberfan Disaster (coal mine disaster)
Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani female education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate)
Weird Al Yankovic (comedian/musician)
Hasekura Tsunenaga and the Spanish Samurai (17th century Japanese delegates met the pope)
Leonardo da Vinci (scientist, artist, engineer, architect)
Rosa Parks (human rights activist)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film and TV show)
The making of the Oxford Dictionary (a tale of murder and insanity)
Norwegian Black Metal (controversial music genre)
The Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Alamo (American Battle)
The Satanic Panic in North America (80s/90s)
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana (Legendary Frontman/Band)
John Wren (the Beer Barron of Victorian illegal gambling)
The Monday Night Wars (Wrestling's WCW Nitro vs WWF)
Flavor of Love and the Golden Age of VH1 reality television
Accidental Inventions
The Murder of Helle Crafts
Teddy Roosevelt (American president)
Empires Of The Deep (The Most Expensive Movie Never Made)
Dick Van Dyke (famous actor)
John Landis and the Twilight Zone disaster
Jaws (Original Summer Blockbuster)
The Glen Coe Massacre & The Black Dinner (Inspiration for the Red Wedding)
The Hillsborough disaster (British Sporting Tragedy)
The National Park Service (American department)
The murder of nun Cathy Cesnik and her link to abuse in catholic church
Order of the Solar Temple (fascinating cult)
Tupac and Notorious BIG (aka the east coast vs west coast music battle)
Oceangate gate (submersible disaster)
John Delorean and his dream car (the Delorean)
Beanie Babies (marketing fluff or genuine collectables)
The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix (death of drivers Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna)
Pink Floyd (famous band)
Jesse Owens (Olympic legend)
Jurassic Park Film Franchise
Harvey's Wagon Wheel and Resort Heist (wild bomb heist)
Julie D'Aubigny (17th-century swordswoman and opera singer)
The Marx Brothers (famous comedians)
The Gallipoli Campaign (WW1 event)
The USS William D Porter (US Navy ship)
Dr Frederick Cook vs Robert Peary in the race to the North Pole
Shinkansen bullet train (Revolutionary technology)
Simo Häyhä “The white death” (WW2 badass)
Noor Inayat Khan (WWII badass)
The Brisbane Soviet: The 1919 Worker's Revolution and Shootout in Brisbane
Stephen King (Horror Writer)
The Cuban Missile Crisis (Tense Military standoff)
Pixar (famous animation studio)
The Isdal Woman (Norwegian mystery)
The Real Von Trapp family (Who the Sound of Music was based on)
The Salisbury Poisonings (Russian double agent poisoned?)
The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship
Melbourne's The Rialto (the Jewel in Melbourne's Skyline)
The origin of chiropractic care (it involves a ghost?)
The Great Library of Alexandria
The Batavia Mutiny (Australia's Deadliest Shipwreck)
WWII Bad Ass Douglas Bader (Legless Fighter Pilot)
Anastasia Romanov and her Many Imposters (daughter of Tsar Nicholas II)
Beatrix Potter (famous author and early conservationist)
Stanislav Petrov (The man who said NO to WWIII)
Alexander the Great (The Macedonian King)
The KLF (British band that vanished)
Pancho Villa (real life Mexican robin hood)
The Matildas (Australian Women's Football Team)
Adolf Hitler (WW2 fuckhead)
Matthew Hopkins (The Witchhunter General)
Henrietta Lacks (her cells led to advancement in medicine)
The Ghost Army (WWII operation)
Queen Victoria (English queen)
The Voynich Manuscript (Mysterious coded manuscript from 15th century)
John Moses Browning & The Winchester Curse! (gun manufacturer's haunted house)
David Suchet and Poirot
Gene Roddenberry and the history of Star Trek
Black Holes
Wu-Tang Clan (influential hip hop group)
History of Banana Republics
the real Slim Shady (aka Eminem aka Marshal Mathers)
Walt Disney (the man who Disney is named after)
Gorillaz (cartoon band)
Nick Leeson (Rogue trader who collapsed a bank)
The Invention of Television
The Real Men in Black (government agency)
The Crusades (Series of Religious Wars)
The American Revolution
The attempted theft of Abraham Lincoln's body
Spring Heeled Jack (1800s British urban legend/mystery)
The Twilight Saga
History of Halloween
Rajneeshees (religious cult in Oregon in the 80s)
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Gilgo Beach Killer
The Amityville Haunting (paranormal house)
The History of Cussing/Swearing
Desmond Doss (WWII badass)
Stonehenge (prehistoric rock monument)
Pokémon (video game/pop culture phenomenon)
Mata Hari (WWI spy)
Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
Alexander Hamilton (a founding father of USA)
Genghis Khan (great conqueror)
Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia)
The Chicxulub asteroid (cause of dinosaur extinction?)
Robert Smalls (freed slave/politician)
The Great Wall of China
The Rolling Stones (famous band)
The Bhopal Disaster (industrial disaster)
1916 Easter rising (the foundation of modern Ireland)
When Charles Dickens was visited by Hans Christian Anderson
DC Cinematic Universe Summary
John C. Woods (Man who executed nazis)
Jacques Cousteau (Undersea explorer, inventor, filmmaker)
St.Kilda Football Club and the 1966 Flag (Australian Football team who won a premiership in 1966)
The Yorkshire Ripper (English Serial Killer)
Mel Brooks (Comedy legend)
Frank Sinatra (famous singer)
The Clydach Murders (3 generations murdered, police cover ups and false accusations)
Qin Shi Huang & his massive terracotta army
World War II
Wars of the Roses (series of civil wars in Britain)
Aleister Crowley AKA The Beast 666 (cult leader)