CHUCK NORRIS FACTS (ACTUAL ONES)
This martial artist-turned-actor starred as Cordell Walker in the long-running TV series Walker, Texas Ranger.
Who is Chuck Norris?
This Spanish duo's 1993 song spawned a line dance still performed at weddings today — the song and dance share the same name.
Who is Los Del Rio? / What is 'Macarena'?
This 1987 cult hit follows a teenage babysitter whose night spirals into chaos across downtown Chicago.
What is Adventures in Babysitting?
This literary character famously mistook windmills for giants — his name has become a word for chasing impossible, delusional dreams.
Who is Don Quixote?
This fantasy tabletop RPG — first published in 1974 — remains the best-selling role-playing game of all time.
What is Catan / Settlers of Catan?
Before acting, Chuck Norris became a world champion in this combat sport in the 1960s.
What is karate?
This British group had everyone getting knocked down but getting up again with their 1997 hit 'Tubthumping' — they never charted significantly again.
Who is Chumbawamba?
In this 1988 dark comedy, a recently deceased couple haunts their home with help from a chaotic bio-exorcist.
What is Beetlejuice?
This Wizard of Oz character spent the whole film believing he lacked the intelligence he'd been using all along.
Who is the Scarecrow?
This 1995 German-designed board game about building settlements while trading sheep and wheat became the gateway drug to modern board gaming.
What is Catan / Settlers of Catan?
This 1972 film features Chuck Norris in an on-screen fight with Bruce Lee set in the Roman Colosseum.
What is Way of the Dragon?
This 1982 Toni Basil cheerleader anthem is one of the most recognizable songs of the decade despite her never charting again.
What is 'Mickey'?
This 1989 dark teen satire features a murderous outsider played by Christian Slater working his way through a vicious clique.
What is Heathers?
This movie protagonist was so convinced his suburban life was meaningless that he blew it up — only to appreciate what he had in his very final moments.
Who is Lester Burnham? / What is American Beauty?
This collectible card game launched in 1993 features over 20,000 unique cards and was declared by MIT researchers to be the world's most strategically complex game.
What is Magic: The Gathering?
Chuck Norris portrayed Colonel James Braddock in this trilogy — its first installment shares its name with a military phrase meaning 'absent without leave.'
What is Missing in Action?
This Danish-Norwegian group's 1997 bubblegum pop song about a certain plastic fashion doll was one of the best-selling singles in history.
Who is Aqua? / What is 'Barbie Girl'?
Daily Double!
This 1986 David Lynch film opens with the discovery of a severed ear in a suburban field and only gets stranger from there.
What is Blue Velvet?
In this 1950 Akira Kurosawa film, a murder is recounted by four witnesses — each with a completely different version of events — and the audience is never shown which account, if any, is true.
What is Rashomon?
This 1959 strategy board game has no luck element — only negotiation and betrayal — and is notorious for requiring players to make alliances they'll inevitably break. It is famous for ruining friendships.
What is Diplomacy?
In 1990, Chuck Norris co-founded this nonprofit providing martial arts training and character development to at-risk youth.
What is Kickstart Kids?
This duo's 1969 doomsday prophecy hit #1 in 22 countries — it was their first and last charting single, predicting the fate of humanity across a series of future years.
Who is Zager and Evans? / What is 'In the Year 2525'?
This 1984 cult sci-fi film stars Emilio Estevez as a punk who discovers a car containing a dangerous alien secret in its trunk.
What is Repo Man?
Patricia Highsmith's charming, murderous protagonist is so convinced he deserves wealth and status that he never acknowledges being a monster — he simply murders his way across Europe and calls it survival. Name the character.
Who is Tom Ripley?
This tabletop RPG set in a dystopian cyberpunk universe was the source material for a 2020 video game so disastrously buggy at launch that it was pulled from the PlayStation Store for six months.
What is Cyberpunk / Cyberpunk 2020?