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