4 Quick Daily Questions: Who Invented the Mic Drop?

A mic drop is a gesture of intentionally dropping one’s microphone at the end of a performance or speech to signal triumph. The maneuver became widespread in the 1980s when rappers and comedians used it. An early occurrence was Eddie Murphy in 1983 in his standup show Delirious and again in his 1988 film Coming to America. 

What’s new?

Coming 2 America, the sequel, originally planned to hit theaters last year, was sold due to the pandemic by Paramount Pictures to Amazon, where it begins streaming Friday, March 3, 2021.

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Theodor Seuss Geisel adopted the name “Dr. Seuss” as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He added the “Dr.” to his pen name because his father wanted him to practice medicine.

Which Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published?

On Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March 2, 2021, which is non-coincidentally National Read Across America Day, the company that preserves the author’s legacy announced it would no longer publish  Six of Dr. Seuss’s books because of racially insensitive imagery. The six children’s titles are If I Ran the Zoo, Scrambled Eggs Super, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, The Cat’s Quizzer and the 1958 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, in which a character described as Chinese has two lines for eyes, carries chopsticks and a bowl of rice, and wears traditional Japanese-style shoes.

Princess Diana died at age 36 in a car crash in Paris after her divorce from Prince Charles. 

The news:

Prince Harry, now 36 himself, told Oprah Winfrey that “My biggest concern was history repeating itself,” apparently referring to the death of his mother, Princess Diana. Before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to California, the couple had complained about the British tabloids’ treatment of Meghan. The interview aired on March 7, 2021, on CBS. 

Pictured is Chris Cuomo, CNN host, brother of current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and film producer Maria Cuomo Cole, and son of former New York Governor Mario Matthew Cuomo.

In the news:

Chris Cuomo told CNN viewers Monday, Mar. 1, 2021,  that he “obviously” couldn’t cover the stories surrounding his older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The latter has been accused of sexual harassment by three women.

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