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