Dance Hits of My Youth
This 1989 track from Belgian act Technotronic featured lyrics performed by Ya Kid K that encouraged listeners to "Get your booty on the floor tonight / Make my day."
What is "Pump Up the Jam"?
When Trump is sworn in on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, American flags will fly at half-mast to honor this late president.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This festival of lights, usually celebrated in December, lasted all the way until January 2nd this season.
What is Hanukkah?
The hottest temperature ever recorded in the US was at a place called Greenland Ranch in this state in 1919; it subsequently changed its name to Furnace Creek in 1933.
What is California?
The video for this 1990 Madonna song, which shares its name with a popular fashion magazine, encouraged listeners to "strike a pose," which became the move associated with the dance that the song popularized.
What is "Vogue"?
A military veteran from Texas drove a rented truck down Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year's Day in this city, senselessly killing 14 people in the name of ISIS.
What is New Orleans?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was first celebrated as a federal holiday in this year, better known for disasters: the Challenger explosion, the Chernobyl explosion, and Bill Buckner's costly error in Game 6 of the World Series.
What is 1986?
-70°F, the lowest temperature in the continental US, was recorded in 1954 in Rogers Pass, a mountain pass in this state that provides the shortest route between Great Falls and Missoula.
What is Montana?
This 1990 song features MC Hammer repeating the song's title 29 times; the video helped popularize parachute pants, which came to be known as "Hammer pants."
What is "U Can't Touch This"?
Though seven teams have a larger point differential this year, this team finished the NFL regular season with the best record in the league.
What is the Kansas City Chiefs?
The last Monday in January is known as an appreciation day for this packaging material; it was first recognized by a radio station in Bloomington, Indiana, that played with it on air.
What is bubble wrap?
The most rain that's ever fallen in an hour is one foot in 1947 in Holt, a town in this state; it's part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
What is Missouri?
This 1990 C + C Music Factory hit featured Martha Wash, one of the Weather Girls, who had their own hit, "It's Raining Men," in 1983, imploring "everybody" to "dance now."
What is "Gonna Make You Sweat"?
This toll, the first of its kind in the US, means it will cost $9 to drive into lower Manhattan during peak hours, defined as 5 am to 9 pm on weekdays, and 9 am to 9 pm on weekends.
What is congestion pricing?
The celebration of this food is on January 23rd, not March 14th, because that's the birthday of the Colorado schoolteacher who started it.
What is National Pie Day?
Hail with a diameter of 8 inches fell in 2010 in this state, home also of Wall Drug and the Corn Palace.
What is South Dakota?
This 1990 song by Deee-Lite borrowed its melody from the main riff of Herbie Hancock's "Bring Down the Birds."
What is "Groove is in the Heart"?
Who is Stevie Wonder?
On January 15th, this country celebrates John Chilembwe Day, honoring the reverend "who led the first nationalist uprising in 1914-1915 protesting against forced labor and African involvement in World War I."
What is Malawi?
Over a one-year period, the most snow to fall in the US was 102 feet, from February 1971-February 1972, on this Pacific Northwest peak, named in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver for his friend, a rear admiral in the British Royal Navy who never actually saw the mountain (and not just because it was covered in snow).
What is Mount Rainier?