📜 October 2: On This Day in History |  | Group of peanuts pass the sniffy test |  Image: Peanuts Worldwide | Each of the following events happened on October 2. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts comic strip debuts in just seven US newspapers. (It would eventually run in more than 2,600.) Fun fact: The cartoonist almost named Charlie Brown's dog Sniffy—not Snoopy—but another comic dog already had that name.
- B) American actor Rock Hudson, 59, dies. He’s one of the first Hollywood celebrities known to pass away from AIDS-related complications, and the extensive publicity surrounding his death draws attention to the disease.
- C) American lawyer and civil rights activist Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as a US Supreme Court justice, becoming SCOTUS’ first Black member. He serves as an associate justice on the Court for 24 years.
- D) Gatorade is first tested in a college football game—a matchup between Florida and LSU, played in “muggy, 102-degree heat.” UF players on the sideline down the drink, which is designed to fight dehydration, rebalance their bodies' electrolytes, and restore blood sugar, potassium, and body salts so they can continue to perform at a high level. Nicknamed "Gatorade” (Gator-Aid), the drink eventually becomes a mass-market phenomenon and makes its inventors v wealthy.
Hint: In need of some ade? Try #2. |
|
|
🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | You may need an escape plan | Don’t let today’s Conjoiner sequence cuff you up! Check below for the first key to the puzzle. The first clue of today’s sequence is: “‘A person behind bars”... |
| | Play the sequence here |
|
🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniNo need to look at your wrist to see how long today’s mini is taking, you have all the time in the world. Unless you want to hold the top spot at DONUT HQ (35 seconds). SudokuNine little numbers, tricky but true—fit them just right, the champ is you! |
|
|
🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | Click to play any (or all) of the three challenges below, then pick the GOAT through a series of head-to-head matchups. This data-driven process was developed to create definitive best-of-all-time lists using a more objective approach than random bloggers just publishing controversial opinions for clicks. |
|
|
🏆 Tuesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 📺 THE GREATEST NICKELODEON SHOWS OF ALL TIME - SpongeBob SquarePants
- Rugrats
- iCarly
Explore the full list. 🤔 RANKING CHARACTERS FROM ‘ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING,’ GREATEST TO LEAST - Charles-Haden Savage (portrayed by Steve Martin)
- Oliver Putnam (Martin Short)
- Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez)
Explore the full list. 🏆 THE GREATEST ‘BIG BROTHER’ SEASON WINNERS OF ALL TIME - Dr. Will Kirby
- Dan Gheesling
- Rachel Reilly (w Lisa Donahue in a veryyyy close 4th)
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
|
|
📜 Answers | | A, D, C, B - A) 1950: Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts comic strip debuts in just seven US newspapers.
- D) 1965: Gatorade is first tested in a college football game—a matchup between Florida and LSU, played in “muggy, 102-degree heat.”
- C) 1967: American lawyer and civil rights activist Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as a US Supreme Court justice, becoming SCOTUS’ first Black member.
- B) 1985: American actor Rock Hudson, 59, dies.
|
|
|
|
