Daily Archives: February 1, 2026

Campus Trivia Night

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Question: Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2015?

Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia

  1. United States
  2. China
  3. Japan
  4. Germany
  5. France

In the half decade between 2010 and 2015, the list of the world’s four largest economies as measured by nominal GDP in $US remained unchanged in either composition or sequence. The one change to this list was the identity of the world’s fifth largest economy, with the United Kingdom replacing France as estimated by the International Monetary Fund.

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Andrew Breitbart was born
on this day in 1969

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Andrew Breitbart — the American journalist, publisher, and media entrepreneur who founded Breitbart News and co-founded HuffPost — was born on this day — February 1, 1969 — in Los Angeles, California. He passed away in 2012 at the age of 43.

He was a graduate of Tulane University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies.

Breitbart is perhaps best remembered for the “Breitbart Doctrine” — his influential philosophy that “politics is downstream from culture.” A pioneer of the digital media age, he played a central role in the early development of The Drudge Report before launching his own network of “Big” sites, which aimed to challenge the traditional media landscape. His work as a media provocateur and his focus on cultural storytelling reshaped modern political discourse in the United States.

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