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