The day you were born...
"Con"tagion
L-AARP-ing
Stranger than non-fiction
Flatten the Curve
200

Ben, August 27th: In 1955, this book was first published by a brewery seeking to document mankind's... achievements?

Guiness Book of World Records

200

San Diego boasts the largest of these gatherings, where followers of fandoms frolick freely.

Comic-Con

200

This film was nominated for an Oscar for it special effects rather than makeup, which youthed and aged Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Al-Pacino by 50 years.

The Irishman

200

A bizarre new conspiracy theory links this technology, which will increase mobile connectivity speeds, with the coronavirus outbreak and has lead activists in The UK to burn towers.

5G

200

Also called a "normal distribution for a variable", this type of curve's highest point represents the most probable outcome in a series of data.

Bell Curve

400

Pedro, August 6th: In 1945, the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on this city.

Hiroshima

400

The "lower 48" are also referred to by this description, also meaning to share a common border.

Contiguous 

400

Rolling back the clock, the "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was based on a short story by this Jazz Age writer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

400

Secretary of State Pompeo has repeatedly taken to cable news networks to suggest that the virus escaped from a virology lab in this Chinese city

Wuhan

400

This early Keira Knightley film was all about a tomboy teen learning to curve the soccerball during a free kick.

Bend it like Beckham

600

Art, August 10th: In 1974, after Henry Kissinger accepted Nixon's resignation the day before, this man entered the Oval Office for the first time as President.


Gerald Ford

600

Charles Ponzi is an example of this type of swindler, who created a masterpiece of lies.

Con-artist


600

This Spanish explorer and conquistador reportedly spent years searching for the "Fountain of Youth" in what would later become Florida... no wonder there are so many retirees there!

Ponce de Leon

600

Some think that COVID-19 was created by these types of companies to keep the human population ill and dependent on medicines, drugs, and treatments.

Pharmaceutical Companies

600

This naturally-abundant curve is created using a formula in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones... 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...

Fibonacci sequence

800

Rob, August 19th: In 1944, liberation of this city starts, following the invasion by allied troops during Operation Overlord. 


Paris

800

Aerial this is carried out by aircraft to survey weather conditions, map terrain, and observe the movement of enemy forces.

Reconnaissance

800

This alternative rock band repeatedly requested that listeners remind them how old they were in "What's My Age Again", released in 1999.

Blink-182

800

Some anti-vaxxers, members of QAnon and right-wing pundits have seized on a 2015 Ted talk given by this man, where he discussed the Ebola outbreak and warned of a new pandemic, to claim that he had foreknowledge of the COVID pandemic and even that he purposely caused it.

Bill Gates

800

Don't try to convince these conspiracy theorists that the curve of the horizon dips away at a rate of 1 degree every 60 miles... they won't be on your level.

Flat-earthers

1000

Shelby, August 18th: In 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify this amendment to the Constitution.

19th

1000

The south may have lost the Civil War, but some Confederates said this era, which came right after and was characterized by the installation of military governors and oaths of loyalty, was worse.

Reconstruction

1000

In a never-ending quest to smooth out wrinkles, in 2018, 7.4 million injections of this protein were performed in the US.

Botox

1000

America isn't the only country with conspiracy theories... the Chinese foreign ministry is claiming that this U.S. entity is actually to blame for the virus.

Military

1000

Repeated use of the curveball by a pitcher can cause an Ulnar Collateral Ligament injury which requires a surgery named after this Dodgers pitcher, who received it in 1974.

Tommy John