Odd But True Current Events 2016 - 2018

Question 1

This week a high school French teacher in Houston is being criticized because he can’t ______________

Answer 1

Speak French

Question 2

After months of debate construction crews in Belgium finally began building the city’s first ever pipeline to transport

Answer 2

Beer

Question 3

After hearing erie noises coming from a nearby grave a man visiting a cemetary in the UK discovered ___________________

Answer 3

It was a baby fox with his head stuck in a peanut butter jar trying to get out.

Question 4

Researchers at Ohio State University warned that people that sit for too long may develop a new ailment named ______________

Answer 4

Dormant Butt Syndrome (DBS)

Question 5

A marathoner in Tennessee failed to win the race when he stopped half way to ________________

Answer 5

Eat a Burrito

Question 6

March 26, 2016 - New Jersey police were called to a shopping mall to break up a brawl between a man and ___________________

Answer 6

The easter bunny (the fight started after the man’s daughter accidentally slipped out of her chair while taking pictures)

Question 7

Police in Louisville were excited this week when they finally got a clear security camera image of a man accused of _________________ing.

Answer 7

Stealing security cameras

Question 8

March 23, 2016 The German national soccer team confirmed they have dropped star player Max Kruse due to his _____________ addiction

Answer 8

Nutella

Question 9

A former member of Ukraine’s parliament was sentenced to two years in prison for exchanging ______________ for votes

Answer 9

Grilled chicken

Question 10

An Ohio man asked to say the alphabet during his sobriety test refused on the grounds that I am _____________.

Answer 10

Unfamiliar with it

Question 11

In a sign that American’s are beginning to think differently about their health, the world’s largest McDonald’s is being closed for _________________.

Answer 11

An even larger McDonald’s

Question 12

A tense 4 hour standoff between Ohio police and an armed 75 year old man ended when the man ___________.

Answer 12

Fell asleep

Question 13

An Australian beach town attempt to put up a shark proof barrier was delayed by ________________

Answer 13

A shark attack

Question 14

Instead of answering questions about Donald Trump representative Isa of California __________________

Answer 14

Hopped over a fence and ran away

Question 15

June 2016 a woman in New Foundland called 911 to report _________________

Answer 15

Her pizza did not have enough cheese on it

Question 16

June 2016 a woman in New Foundland called 911 to report _________________

Answer 16

Her pizza did not have enough cheese on it

Question 17

This week, police in Minnesota threatened to punish drunk drivers by forcing them to _______________.

Answer 17

Watch Justin Bierber’s Super Bowl ad

Question 18

2017- After spending a week taking care of her husband’s dog, a woman in Florida was excited when he sent her flowers until she discovered ___________.

Answer 18

The flowers were sent for her dog (The dog had knee surgery and was recovering)

Question 19

2017- A Girl Scout in New Jersey who was having trouble selling cookies sold thousands after she wrote a letter saying __________________.

Answer 19

The Toffee-tasting cookies taste like “bleak, flavorless, gluten free wasteland”(after no one was buying Charlotte McCourt’s Girl Scout Cookies so her parents suggested she write a letter reviewing each flavor. She ended up selling 15,000 boxes and earned her cattiness badge)

Question 20

January 2017 - This week, a man in Texas was caught on security camera leaving the store with a blank shoved down his pants

Answer 20

Guitar

Question 21

After Google would not send Street View cars to map the Faroe Islands, residents there _____________________.

Answer 21

They strapped cameras to their sheep and let them wander around.

Question 22

After rescuing a man who was stuck in the air vents of a sandwich shop, police in Napa had realized he was under the influence when he did what?

Answer 22

When he told them he thought the vent was a magical wishing well. (Napa, California)

Question 23

California residents, upset that a sinkhole in the road has taken so long to get repaired, blanked this week.

Answer 23

They threw the sinkhole a first birthday party.

Question 24

This week, jurors in an arson trial in Florida were given a reason not to trust the defense lawyer when he ______________ during closing arguments.

Answer 24

Caught fire and ran out of the room because his pants were on fire.

Question 25

An Arkansas magician pulled over on suspicion of DUI was let go after he proved his sobriety by _______________.

Answer 25

Juggling

Question 26

March 2017: Passengers stuck in a massive traffic jam on a Seattle highway were relieved to see a _______________ stuck as well

Answer 26

A taco truck. It opened its doors and started selling tacos.

Question 27

After opening a care package from his mom, a freshman at Westminster College in Pennsylvania discovered that she had sent him _________.

Answer 27

A box full of trash that he had forgotten to take out when he was home.

Question 28

May 2017: In Canada, a fire truck was delayed on the way to a fire because it _____________

Answer 28

Caught on fire

Question 29

May 2018: This week, the big cheese festival in England apologized to attendees for ___________.

Answer 29

Running out of cheese

Question 30

March 2018 - A Hartford man faced charges

for stealing a car, drove to the court in a ___________.

Answer 30

another stolen car

Question 31

A man in China who adopted a puppy was surprised when his pet grew up to be a ____________.

Answer 31

a bear

Question 32

After getting stuck in the wilderness, a trucker hauling a load of potato chips managed to walk three days to get help without ever blanking.

Answer 32

Eating any of the potato chips

Jacob Cartwright was delivering a truckload of chips from Oregon to Idaho. But thanks to a malfunctioning GPS, he found himself completely lost in what rescue workers described as a, quote, “remote and mountainous location.” So he had to set out on foot to find help. And even though he wandered for three days without being rescued, with no supplies, Cartwright did not eat a single potato chip. He said, quote, “that’s just the way I was raised. That stuff’s not mine. I don’t touch it,” unquote.

Question 33

August 2018: A Florida woman suspected of stealing an SUV attempted to flee the scene but was caught when she blanked.

Answer 33

Got cornered by a herd of cows.

Question 34

According to doctors from the University of Boston, more and more people are requesting that plastic surgeons make them look like blank.

Answer 34

like their Snapchat filters

According to the doctors, Snapchat’s beauty filters are giving people an unrealistic expectation of beauty and is leading to them going under the knife to look more like their pictures. They want it all - they want fuller lips, smoother skin, bigger eyes, a dog nose.

The phenomenon has been dubbed Snapchat dysmorphia

Question 35

August 11, 2018: This week, a German group’s attempt to break the record for most falling dominoes had their dreams dashed by blank.

Answer 35

A fly who landed on one of the dominoes and tipped everything over.

They had set up a half a million dominoes before the fly landed and set off the chain reaction. It would’ve been worse if it’d been one of the guys tried to swat the fly but still.

Question 36

A golfer in Canada got a hole-in-one after his shot landed on the green and then ______________.

Answer 36

Then an eagle picked it up and dropped it in the hole.

(After driving his ball onto the green, the golfer assumed he’s only going to make par before an eagle swooped onto the course, picked up the ball and dropped it right into the hole.

And that’s right, golfers. He got an eagle.

Question 37

Police in South Carolina say they’re looking for a man who went into a Taco Bell and _________________.

Answer 37

He went behind the counter to make his own Mexican pizza because he said the one they made for him did not have enough meat on it.

Question 38

March 13, 2019 social media giant _______ suffered the most severe outage in its history.

Answer 38

Facebook and Instagram.

Question 39

Police were able to arrest three bank robbers after __________ overheard them planning their heist.

Answer 39

by the Uber driver they had hired to drive them to the bank.

They hired this Uber guy to drop - bring to the bank. And on the way, they discussed entry routes and escape plans. Naturally, as soon as he dropped them off, the driver called the police. The men were arrested as soon as they walked into the bank. It was great news for the bank and its customers, but terrible news for - and this is true - for the other Uber they had called as their getaway car.