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