📜 April 16: On This Day in History |  | Pulitzer rhymes |  Image: This Day in Music | Each of the following events happened on April 16. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Kendrick Lamar became the first artist beyond the genres of classical and jazz to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. The award, for his album DAMN., is widely celebrated as a milestone for hip-hop.
- B) Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. Lenin would soon become the virtual dictator of the world’s first Marxist state.
- C) Walter Cronkite becomes the anchor of CBS Evening News. He would hold the position for nearly two decades, during which time he became known as the “most trusted man in America.”
- D) Harriet Quimby, the first US woman to earn a pilot’s license, also becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel. She would die in an airplane accident just months later.
Hint: Lenin was exiled twice |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game |  | Flow state | To start hot on today’s conjoiner, just go with the beat. Solve the puzzle below to earn yourself a mic drop. The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Music originating in the Bronx, featuring rap, DJ-ing, and breakdancing”... |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best |  | What's the greatest comedy scene of all time? |  Images: Bridesmaids (2011) | Dumb and Dumber (1994) | You’ve laughed at these before, and some even get funnier every single time you watch them. Now, they're going head-to-head on GOATWars to determine the greatest comedy scene ever. Each vote builds your personal GOAT List, where decide what actually makes a scene unforgettable: chaos, quotability, or shock value. Showdowns include: |
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🏆 Tuesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In |  | 🥪 THE GREATEST DELI SANDWICH OF ALL TIME - Philly cheesesteak
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📜 Answers |  | D, B, C, A - D) 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
- B) 1917 – Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Russia after a decade of exile.
- C) 1962 – Walter Cronkite becomes the anchor of CBS Evening News.
- A) 2018 – Kendrick Lamar wins the Pulitzer Prize for music.
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