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