Apparently 93% of us hadn't heard of him. After looking him up I remembered that you have promoted Nine Inch Nails in comments on other quizzes, so I found them on Youtube and listened to Wish. The language was too harsh for this grandma and it's not my kind of music, but I can see why you think they are deserving of praise. I'd leave the clue in. Maybe more will follow my lead and check them out if they haven't heard of them.
What he^ said. No idea who this guy is. Interesting what you determine happy events (MacDonalds and Facebook :) but seriously, I enjoyed the quiz. Thanks for having something a little light hearted.
2008 and 2004 (facebook) were sad events. The baseball one could be happy or sad (depending on which club you were supporting) or irrelevant (for everyone outside USA). 1919 was definitely not a happy event for the Germans. Oh, and I also had no idea who Trent Reznor was, but I've heard couple of NIN songs and they were pretty good.
eh.. yeah I hesitated to put Versailles on there. The treaty was awful for the Germans and many blame it for paving the way for WW2. But... it coincided with the end of the war which was a good thing.
Trent Reznor is GOD. For those of you who might think he's not "happy" enough for this quiz, he's scoring movies these days and won an Oscar for "The Social" Network". However, I thought for some reason he was from Philadelphia.
When I saw Trent play a club in Philly once, he was, in his own words, "from Pennsylvania. But not Philadelphia. The other side of Pennsylvania. The shitty side."
He was born in New Castle, grew up in Mercer. Both are kind of close to Pittsburgh. And Youngstown, OH, where my dad's family is from. (also have relatives in New Castle)