Today in History
1933- Construction of this bridge, spanning the San Francisco Bay, begins.
Golden Gate
Although common in popular culture, there is no evidence that Vikings wore helmets featuring these.
Horns
What is the mascot of Webster High School.
Tigers
Which pick do the Vikings currently have in the first round of the 2026 NFL draft?
18
Paul Rudd
Elizabeth Banks
Bradley Cooper
Wet Hot American Summer
1953- This Samuel Beckett play, whose titular character is never seen, premieres in Paris.
Waiting for Godot
Leif Erikson, the first European to set foot in North America, landed somewhere in Eastern Canada in this century.
11th.
Name the local restaurant that received this 1 Star yelp review in 2017.
Heard the OWNER drop the F BOMB at a little girl. Over chocolate chip sprinkles.
What kind of a person says FU##
to a girl. TWICE.
Can you imagine. We will never ever ever ever go back.
This even caused my spouse to contact the county sheriff and complain.
Northview Drive Inn
Kenan Thompson
Judd Apatow
Ben Stiller
Heavyweights
1925- Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman elected governor in US history. In which state was she elected?
Wyoming
Viking sagas and messages are inscribed on large runestones. Most surviving runestones can be found in this country.
Sweden
Stella the Sturgeon, the statue in Sturgeon Park, commemorates the largest hook and line caught fish in Wisconsin history. Caught on Yellow Lake, this sturgeon was 79 inches long. Within 5 pounds, how large was this sturgeon?
171 pounds.
John Gagliardi holds the NCAA record for career wins as a football coach. 465 of them came at this Minnesota college.
St. John's
Bill Murray
Edward Norton
Bruce Willis
Moonrise Kingdom
2024- Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 makes an emergency landing in Portland which prompts the grounding of this aircraft model.
Boeing 737 Max
The Vikings regularly traded furs, tusks, and seal fat in outposts along this river, the longest in Europe.
Jarrod Washburn, born in Webster, Wisconsin, finished 4th in AL Cy Young voting in 2002 and won a game against the twins in the ALCS. Which team did he play for at the time?
Angels
In which sport did the University of Minnesota most recently win an NCAA national championship?
Women's Ice Hockey
Betsy Palmer
Adrienne King
Kevin Bacon
2005- The discovery of this dwarf planet, the most massive in our solar system, motivates the the International Astronomical Union to formally define the term "planet".
Eris
Nathan Chen
Webster, Wisconsin is named for Noah Webster an American lexicographer, called the Father of American Scholarship and Education. He authored the first edition of this reference work, still in use today.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Wisconsin
Molly Gordon
Jimmy Tatro
Ben Platt
Theater Camp