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