History Tap No. 12: October 10, 2026

Round 1: landmark

Space Needle

Opened in Seattle, Washington, on April 21, 1962.

• At 605 ft (184 m) high, the Space Needle was once the tallest building west of the Mississippi River in the United States.
• The tower is 138 ft (42 m) wide, weighs 9,550 short tons (8,660 metric tons), and is built to withstand winds of up to 200 mph (320 km/h) and earthquakes of up to 9.0 magnitude, as strong as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
• Located at 400 Broad Street in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew more than 2.3 million visitors.

Round 2: landmark

Hollywood Bowl

Opened in Los Angeles, California, on July 11, 1922.

• It was named one of the ten best live music venues in the United States by Rolling Stone magazine in 2018 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
• The Hollywood Bowl is known for its distinctive bandshell, originally a set of concentric arches that graced the site from 1929 through 2003, before being replaced with a larger one to begin the 2004 season.
• Built in the Neues Bauen style.

Round 3: pop culture, world

2020 Summer Olympics

Happened in Japan, in 2020.

• The events were largely held behind closed doors with no public spectators permitted due to the declaration of a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area in response to the pandemic, the only Olympic Games to be held without official spectators.
• Because of the one-year postponement, Tokyo 2020 is the only Olympic Games to have taken place in an odd-numbered year and the first since 1900 to take place in a common year.
• Tokyo became the first city in Asia to hold the Summer Olympic Games twice.

Round 4: historic event, world

Treaty of Versailles

Happened in France, on June 28, 1919.

• Germany was not allowed to participate in the negotiations before signing the treaty.
• In particular, Germany was neither pacified nor conciliated, nor was it permanently weakened.
• The result of these competing and sometimes conflicting goals among the victors was a compromise that left no one satisfied.

Round 5: landmark

Giants Stadium

Opened in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on October 10, 1976.

• The volume of the stadium was 64.5 million cubic feet (1,830,000 m3), and 13,500 tons of structural steel were used in the building process while 29,200 tons of concrete were poured.
• It was the home field of the New York metropolitan area's two National Football League teams, the New York Giants (from 1976 to 2009) and the New York Jets (from 1984 to 2009).
• The structure was 756 feet (230 m) long, 592 feet (180 m) wide and 144 feet (44 m) high from service level to the top of the seating bowl and 178 feet (54 m) high to the top of the south tower.