📜 March 11: On This Day in History |  | Bad Boys |  Image: Variety | Each of the following events happened on March 11. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Cops, a documentary-style TV series that follows police officers as they go about their jobs, debuts on Fox. Cops goes on to become one of the longest-running shows in television history.
- B) One of the worst blizzards in US history strikes the Northeast, killing 400+ people and dumping as much as 55 inches of snow in some areas. At the time, approximately 1 in 4 Americans live in the affected area between Washington, D.C., and Maine.
- C) The World Health Organization declares Covid-19 to be a global pandemic. The disease eventually spreads to every corner of the globe, with 750+ million people contracting the virus and 7+ million attributed deaths.
- D) Japan experiences its largest earthquake in recorded history (magnitude 9.1), triggering a tsunami wave that decimates the Tōhoku region. The tsunami also causes a meltdown at the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant, forcing the relocation of 100,000+ people in what’s considered the second-worst nuclear disaster in history.
Hint: The Fukushima plant had three operational nuclear reactors. |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game |  | Judge and jury | Today’s Conjoiner is about who stands up when the law refuses to take action. Exact some street justice in order to solve the puzzle below: The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Individual who takes the law into their own hands (applied to some superheroes); also a type of justice”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner |  | MiniYou won’t need an “S” on your chest to solve today’s mini. Can you save the day by completing the puzzle? SudokuNo hints to chase, no tricks in view; every number once will do. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best |  | What's the greatest movie poster ever? | 
| Some posters sell the movie. A few become icons all on their own. Now, they're going head-to-head to decide which movie posters have the best design, symbolism, and pure cultural impact. Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, where you get to decide the posters that rise above the rest. Showdowns include: ...and much more. |
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🏆 Monday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In |  | 🍓 THE GREATEST FRUITS OF ALL TIME - Strawberry
- Watermelon
- Banana
- Blueberry
- TIE: Grapes & Pineapple
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers |  | B, A, D, C - B) 1888 – The Great Blizzard of ‘88 hits the Northeast. The storm causes the East River, running between Manhattan and Queens, to freeze over—an extremely rare occurrence.
- A) 1989 – Cops debuts on Fox.
- D) 2011 – Japan’s largest-ever earthquake causes the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
- C) 2020 – Covid-19 is officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
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