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