One Small Step for Man
In this year, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the surface of the Moon
(July 20th) 1969
On December 9th, 2004, down by 8 points, a Hall of Famer scored 13 points in 35 seconds in a comeback win against this coach who the player later played for in the last game of his career. (The coach also leads Team USA.)
Tracy McGrady; Gregg Popovich
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekanand
Father of ancient philosophy
With it's most recent Games in the new millennia, this city has hosted the most Olympics and was once the capital of the largest empire in the world
London 2012
This Disney/Pixar character was named after the second man to walk on the moon
Buzz Lightyear (named after Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin)
On April 13th, 2016, an NBA legend led his team to a comeback win in the final game of his career by becoming the oldest player to score 60 points. This is the sum of ALL of the jersey numbers he has played in after going pro.
Kobe Bryant; 8+10+24=42
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dr. MLK Jr.
Discoverer of zero
Aryabhatta
This track athlete was the first to win Gold in the same Olympic event in three separate Games. The last of his 3 Olympics was in this city which made it the first city from it's continent to ever host the Olympics.
(Usain Bolt) Rio 2016
The Apollo Program spanned multiple presidencies. These two presidents have NASA Centers named in their honor. The third presided over the actual landings.
JFK and LBJ + Nixon
Down 3-1 in the NBA Finals against a record-breaking 73-9 team, a perennial All-Star miraculously willed his team to 3 straight victories sealed by a play known as "The Block" to bring a title to his home city. This was the song played when he returned to Cleveland
(LeBron James) Coming Home - Diddy
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win
JFK
Author of Principia
Isaac Newton
This country has hosted the most Summer and Winter Olympic Games and will be extending that lead at these Olympics
(US) Los Angeles 2028
The Apollo Program was developed as part of the Space Race with the Soviet Union. The USSR beat the US to space with the first satellite and first man but America won the race to the Moon and landed on the Moon 6 times and had a total of 12 astronauts walk on the Moon. This many Soviet cosmonauts landed on the Moon.
0 (No one else has ever landed or flown around the Moon after Apollo 17 in 1972. A total of 24 US astronauts have at least circled the Moon, including 3 who made the trip twice)
Down 28-3 with 2 mins left in the 3rd quarter, a clutch QB engineered 5 straight drives scoring 31 unanswered points and claiming the 2016 Lombardi Trophy. What is the average of the Super Bowl #s (ex. SB55) he has won in this decade (2010-2020) subtracted by the average of the ones he lost this decade
Tom Brady; (49+51+53)/3-(46+52)/2=2
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand
Albert Einstein
Aristotle
This Asian city will become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics
Beijing 2022
Played by Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie Apollo 13, this is the only man who flew around the Moon twice but never landed on the moon.
James "Jim" Lovell (Besides Apollo 13, he was on Apollo 8 as part of the first 3 men to orbit the moon)
In the 2008 Olympics, the greatest Olympian of all time won the 100m butterfly by 0.01 sec after being 7th out of 8 at the halfway point. He holds the record for most Gold medals and most overall medals. He won this many medals many in his first Olympics.
(Michael Phelps) 0
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Father of rocketry (American)
This city's language is one of the three official languages for the Olympic Games, with one being English and the other being the host country's language. They will be hosting the games for the third time after a 100-year gap.
(French) Paris 2024